Christmas Decorating

Today I decided to get out my Christmas tubs and start

decorating my apartment for Christmas. I was planning to

check and make sure that the Christmas lights were working so

we can hang them up outside tomorrow, but the first tub that

I opened had all of my Christmas village items in it. So I decided

that would be more fun than checking lights, so I put up the village.

Here is a picture of part of the Christmas village...I have

been collecting it for a few years but I am limited on space

so I can only put up a small portion of the village.

The next thing to uncover was my Christmas

wallhanging. Don't you just love all of the fun

stuff at Christmas time? I love all of the decorations.

Here is a picture of what I have on the table

below my wallhanging. This is what you see as you

enter my house.

And then Hubby came home from work

and brought me this beautiful poinsettia.

He didn't know I had started putting up our

Christmas decorations today. Wasn't that sweet of him???

That is the beginning of the decorating. Tomorrow, we are hopefully

going to get our tree up and the outside lights put up.

Merry Christmas!!!!!!

Tulips~n~Lace

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