I LOVE the Christmas season! I love the smells of Christmas baking, I love the warmth of the home décor, and the hustle and bustle of the shopping (well, most of it anyway!) and I love the cold, crisp weather…it’s the best time of the year for me. I love family and friends coming together and sharing the anticipation of Christmas morning with the grandchildren.
I have always enjoyed my many Christmas trees and generally choose this time of year to do our hosting and entertaining friends. For a while, I was adding a tree a year…bringing the grand total to 12 at one point…however, common sense kicked in and stopped the crazy progression, though I DO have some rooms still with NO trees in them!
In my later years I have learned that putting up all the trees every year really is somewhat insane (not to mention exhausting!)…besides the children need to be creating their own family traditions. My solution was to alternate the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays!
So when it’s a Christmas year (2009) then we don’t host Thanksgiving which means I can start putting up my trees in November—I just don’t plug in the lights.
When we built this house, we made room for a huge storage room just for seasonal decor…I am the queen of Rubbermaid tubs and wire shelving! I am sure my children are already arguing about who has to deal with it when I am no longer aware of my immediate surroundings!
I thought you might like to share my trees with me. I’ll be posting a couple of trees every few days until Christmas, ending with the large family tree in our living room. Most of the trees have some sort of theme…and we’ll start with the tree in my home office. Being a needlework designer, of course sewing and needlework tools are close to my heart. This little tree is decorated with rag balls that are made from strips of the upholstery fabric that covers the furniture in this room. There are also little sewing boxes I made from papier mache boxes, rolls of fabric and small spools covered with the appropriately colored floss…there are wooden scissors, and stacks of spools, antique button cards and needle folders, and bits of old lace. Favorite ornaments are two that were made for me out of tiny spools stacked into a Christmas tree shape, and another made into a wreath of spools.
Posted on December 13th, 2009 by Sue
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The entry hall tree is a twiggy gardening theme…with an accent on the birds! I don’t really set out to “collect” but I end up with collections of things…right now I seem to be attracted to birdhouses…I just like their simplicity, and their whimsy…so this tree is “for the birds”. 
