Thursday, December 8, 2011

The Holiday House!


Welcome to our holiday house!  (My husband wants to be Santa when he grows up!)  Hope you enjoy the photos of our home and some other random stuff!

The blown glass tree in the music room.  18 years of collecting blown glass ornaments from great artists and from around the world.  The Sydney Opera House, The Empire State Building, Cinderella's Castle, The Eiffel Tower, and many more trips immortalized in glass. 
The Nutcracker tree or as my kids call it, the present tree because the gifts go under this one!  

Close up of the Nutcracker tree.

Nuts about Nutcrackers

One of the matching pair of Santa trees.  I promise we fixed that ugly cord stretched across there and cleaned up the buffet!

The other Santa tree

Close up of my white tree with all of the homemade felt ornaments.  I love this riot of color!

Prissy little bedroom feather tree


A stack of homemade gifts ready to be wrapped!
Homemade hotpad 

Homemade hotpad 


Homemade hotpads

Another quilt made for my friend's grandchildren out of her great grandmother's quilt squares.

And yet another quilt made for my friend's grandchildren out of her great grandmother's quilt squares.

The clean side of my happy place!  Let's ignore the other side because it's a hot mess!

New composition book cover.  Christmas present for a 13 year old!
So proud of this baby for running her first 5K last weekend!  Dad and both kids ran but I didn't seem to get a shot of Tucker!  They wanted me to run but someone had to hold their coats:)  (Not to mention the only way I could run would be if someone was chasing me with a knife!)