Down to the wire now...

I've spent the weekend cleaning, finishing the wrapping, doing a few more ornaments, grabbing some groceries, and even spent barely a few minutes just breathing deeply.

While breathing deeply, I took a few photos of some of my favorite ornaments and thought I'd share with you...














My tree is a "pencil" tree. It's about 7 1/2 feet tall (I have 10 feet ceilings downstairs). There are 700 lights on it... 400 colored, and 300 white. (Seriously, who would think you could get that many lights on the tree?) That glass tree topper way up there... it adds another 12" to the height of the tree, and my daughter just loves that thing.













Every ornament on the tree has a story, and every year as I put them up it's a walk through my Christmas history...

This one is a simple wooden shape, just painted with a simple little face... and just a touch of glitter














This one was made by The Little One, when she really was little. She was 4 or 5 when she created this little bunny. It's complete all the way down to pearl earrings and little flowers on her shoes.















You find lots and lots of needlepoint ornaments on the tree, the majority of them I designed.














And there are a few on the tree that Kate stitched... she's created many ornaments since that first bunny way back when.















Since we all have a whole lot going on this week, I'm going to keep it simple around here. I plan on sharing more ornaments and decorations, the ones that I'm finishing up and more of the ones on the tree... and then... I'm sure I'll find something to get into...