I know that it is well after the Christmas season for most people, but we just got to the end of our indoor decorations yesterday. The outside decorations are still largely encased in ice and are staying right where they are until the thaw that is coming over the next couple of days.
When I realized the time was short for our decorations, I rushed around the house taking pictures. I think our house pretty much looks like something you'd see in a magazine or movie during Christmas, thanks to my wife, and I wanted to capture that look for posterity. Unfortunately, "rushed" is the key word and very few of the low-light pictures are acceptable for publication. Here are a few I liked enough to share.
This Santa is one of perhaps two dozen in the house. This particular one is on a vanity in our bedroom. That's right, even our bedroom is decorated like crazy! The gingerbread house in the background was made by my wife, daughters, and mom. They make at least one every single year. Each is unique. My wife, Dianne, designs the pattern and makes the walls, the kids decorate, my mom provides a workshop, helping hands, and many candies! One year, they did a model of the Kirkwood train station. We keep the gingerbread house all winter and then give it to the possums and raccoons in the yard. Expect to see pictures of this later.
There nothing too special about this picture, other than this is what I was looking at as I ate dinner the other night. I grabbed the camera and snapped the picture! My dirty plate and wine glass was just in front of this. The blue lights in the background are reflections of some of the outdoor lights in our china cabinet. It's a real live poinsettia!
If there is anything we have more of than Santas, it is Nativity sets. This is as it should be, since Christmas is ALL about the gift of God's son. Like the Santas, we don't even put them all up each year. They are rotated from year to year. This one, however, ALWAYS gets put up. It belonged to my grandparents and is a match to one my parents have...so it is like I grew up with it! One of the wise men were broken at some point. I need to repair it, but I'm not exactly sure where it is, which upsets me.
I also didn't realize until last night how really poor this picture was, but I really wanted to post one of this Nativity set, and now it is taken down! So, I did what I could with it, and here it is! And yes, we have little lights and lighted garland EVERYWHERE in the house during Christmas. It's a Christmas wonderland!
So, just a couple of pictures, but definitely representative of the beauty you'd find in our house at Christmas!
LOL! Well, my tree is still up...
Your wife does lovely decorating!!
Posted by: elijahssong | January 13, 2010 at 09:27 AM