Really Trying

So here you have it... I'm really trying to be a lot more Christmassy and less Scrooge-like. I've changed my look for the Christmas season. The picture in the header is a paper tole (3D Decoupage) that I did back when I first got married. I did a course of Paper Tole back when I first got married almost 18 years ago. I wanted to do more of them but traveling two hours to do a course twice a week was more than I could handle. So unfortunately I only did about 5 or 6 of them. Some of them I gave away as gifts and some I kept for myself and over the years the picture frames have gotten broken unfortunately. I would have liked to keep them but they have gotten thrown away and the two that I did for the girls disappeared when we did the move for the renovation. I think Hubby took them to the dump.

This is the first of my Christmas decorations to go up. I will be doing a slide presentation (to the right) of my Advent decorating as each day I add one new item... That is if I can get this to work! The nativity scene went up yesterday and so I have added that too. Today is my Christmas village that I painted myself. This is a ceramic village that I started the year Hubby and I got married and kept adding a piece until they discontinued it a few years ago. I will try to get a couple of pictures of that since it is quite large.

I hope your Advent Christmas decorating..... baking..... shopping..... etc.... is going well....