It's being to look a lot like Christmas

It's been a lot of work but I finally got our Christmas decorating done and I am very happy with how it turned out. This year, we have 4 small trees.

This tree has multi color twinkle lights, Santa things and scentamental ornaments.

My father in law painted the Santa on horseback.

A silver tree and a green tree with twinkle lights and pink ornaments. 

These ornaments are very vintage and all have little scenes in them. 

This tree has long pink bulbs and some birds. My son thinks all Christmas trees need birds on them, even when the bird ornaments are old and very shabby.......

This one is my favorite. The ornaments, all made by my mom, are Christian symbols call Chrismons and crocheted Angels. 

On this fridge are my parents stockings that they used years ago. They are not very big and we all found it tricky to find tiny things to stuff them with.  

The stockings  don't weigh much and I hung them with clothesline that glued magnet strips on the back of. Aren't they pretty? 

The little stockings are plastic canvas and I made them a few years back.  The grands can play with the little ones but not the big ones as they are a bit fragile.

I hope you all are getting in the holiday spirit too!

My daughter's mantel

My daughter and her family have started their Christmas decorating. Their mantel is almost finished and I think it is really pretty.

She made the "O Holy Night" with her Silhouette cutting system. 

The stockings are new and were bought last year during the 90% off clearance at Target. 

To finish them, she plans to add their names in red, again using the Silhouette. 

At my home, things are a little more normal than they were yesterday. The 8 time-consuming gifts are finished, some of my other to-dos got done today and I think lots more will get done tomorrow. 

I laughed at some of your comments on yesterday's post - it seems so many things just get out of whack this time of year- 😄