Sunydazy Days

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Christmas Tour of Homes

I'm a little late but I'm joining thr Tour . What fun to visit other's homes and see their decorations for the season.

If you want to take the full tour just click on the above link after you've toured mine. :-) and have fun seeing all the pretty homes and meeting all the great moms!

Welcome to our little home...

I named it Bird Song Cottage.

Just inside the front door is where we display our Christmas cards from friends and family. I've been using this little victorian inspired cardboard holder for approximately 13 years now!

On the back of the front door hangs this wreath. I made it the first year dear hubby and I were married. It's called a memory wreath. If you've never heard of that: it's a hand stitched wreath made from bits and pieces of scrap fabric from things you have owned in the past. All the little ornaments are also trinkets, etc... from your own personal history. This wreath was made from clothes I or my grandmother had sewn for me and bits of rick rack and jewelry fro my childhood...it holds a lot of happy memories for me!

The tree sits in the corner of the living room where we can push the ottoman in front of it to keep little fingers away from the pretty ornaments!

We have a family tradition of hiding a little bird's nest in the tree and letting everyone in the family try to find it. Here it is! See the little bluebird peeking out?

Many of our ornaments are homemade. This one was made by Rivergirl a couple of years ago...an angel made of beads. Isn't it pretty?

The only Nativity set we have is this simple little one. We love it and the babies can hardly resist picking up the little Baby Jesus!

Here it is set up on the 'buffet' (antique dresser) in our dining area.

And here is the hard work of my dear husband: the neighborhood star for which he is famous! This star is 24 feet from tip to tip. The neigborhood children love to see this each year and always ask when we will be putting it up.

This year Hubby was able to borrow my dad's ham radio tower to suspend it from! So...it's way up in the air. It looks great at night and can be seen for miles!

I don't have a special recipe to share with you this time but if you go through the rest of the tour of other homes you will find lots of great recipes! Thanks for visiting! Have a Merry Christmas!

Labels: Holidays and Celebrations

posted at 11:01 AM
2 comments

2 Comments:

At December 23, 2006 at 8:46 PM, Mich said...: Season's Greetings! The star is VERY impressive! Better late than never on the virtual tour, I say!!
At December 30, 2006 at 3:55 PM, Anonymous said...: You have so many ownderful traditions & that star is unbelivable. i really like the idea of the bird's nest too, thanks for sharing!