Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone!!  So, I’m a little behind.  🙂  We celebrate until January 1st.  I took a little break from longarm quilting and the computer to enjoy Christmas and family.  It went by so fast!!  Wow!  We visited family and family visited us.    I thought I’d share just a few pics of some of my decorations before it’s time to take it all down.

These are my mini Rudys.  I used my big ones as models here.  I added two more this year.  The one with cute wool and bells and the one made out of burlap.

I always place them on the window in our downstairs.  The famous window that we brought my longarm in through!!  I even put a few Santas in our bathroom downstairs.

Looks like Santa left his cane.  I have to give a lot of credit to Scott.  He did all the beautiful tile work in our home!!

On top of the pie safe this year.  I scaled the decorating back a little this year.  Just a bit.

Little prim Christmas tree.  Too bad I haven’t finished that Buggy Barn tree skirt yet.  It would look perfect under this tree.  Of course lots of Santas.  A few new ones this year too. 🙂

See my little prim twig tree?  I love them!  I bought two in November while on our girls’ excursion in Wisconsin.  I purchased them from JJ Stitches.  They were the steal of the century at only $12!!!  I decorated mine with some little candy canes.

 Yes, that’s a photo of the girls with a sheep when they were not quite 2 1/2 years old.  I know it’s not very Christmasy, but I never take it down.  I love that picture.  It’s textured like a painting.  I thought the sheep was going to be a baby, but it was nearly as big as the girls!!  Took forever to get the picture because it kept running away!!  LOL!!!

Not all my decorations are prim.  I like a little red sparkle too.  Usually, I put a little Christmas village on this desk.  We have collected some antique pieces over the years, but this gorgeous desk I inherited from my grandma.  I used to play “office or school” on it all the time as a child.

These are our Santa Bears.  I collected a few, but decided I didn’t really enjoy finding a place to store them all.  I always have them sit on this antique bench.  It’s another piece from my grandma.  It’s 12 feet long and one solid piece of knotty wood.  It’s a prim lovers dream.  I was fortunate enough to be the only one in the family that had the space for it.  As a matter of fact, we finished our downstairs with a wall specifically so it could go there.

Last, but not least, the photo on this year’s Christmas card.

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!  And thank you so much for all the more than kind comments left on the Anniversary Quilt post!!!! I can’t tell you how much they mean to me! You guys are the best!!