Christmas Scenes From Home

 

I will have to say we enjoyed the white twinkle lights on the
side lights.  The lights were even prettier from inside the house.
I applied them with very thin and short pieces of clear packing tape.

On the 23rd, my daughter, son-in-law, grandson and my sister came over
to eat and play games.  For a change we had homemade lasagne, salad and
garlic bread.  I never knew a game of Old Maids (so PI I am surprised
we could even find a deck) could be so much fun!


Canyon and Lucinda are pictured here playing Jenga.  It is a  fun game
if you have never tried it.

When Tracy and Lucinda arrived, they came in carrying this mouse and a tale.
They informed us that Canyon would not be with us this evening, he
had turned into a mouse ... this particular mouse that danced to
"Jingle Bell Rock" when you pressed the yellow dot on the right foot.  (Of course
Canyon couldn't wait to come in the door and show us he was "only kiddin'".


Canyon, I have to hand it to you for imagination!  You've got a great one!
Always keep it.  ☺

Canyon is not the only one with an imagination in the family!  It took
quite an imagination for my sister to come up with the latest creation atop
Clint's head!  A cap with an instant "bad hair day" built right in it!



Love my old vintage ornamaments



It was so good to sit down on Christmas morning and enjoy a piece
of my sister's apple sauce cake with coffee.  Thank you, Patti, for giving us this
cake.  It is delicious!

More favorite old ornaments on our living room tree



Some of my old Gurley candles, notice the bent steeple on the little church.
These survived the hot heat in the moving van when we moved.  These
little candles were sold in dime stores many years ago.  Somewhere I have some
shaped like lamp posts.



Christmas tree ornaments belonging originally to my great-grandmother.
My grandmother used them every year on her tree.  I take them out every
year just to feel them and look at them. These were not put on a moving
van when we moved, I brought them in the car.  My mother-in-law
gave us the beautiful cut glass dish.



This year we had no decorations outside our house.
I came up with the idea of doing "window displays" as
a form of decoration.  I always loved the old department
store window displays.

A small tree grouping on our buffet as part of the
dining room "window display".



We kept Canyon on the 23rd, most of the day.  Canyon has expressed an interest
in chess and Clint was enjoying this first lesson.  Clint has been playing chess
on his new phone and wants to get back to playing it on a real board with
real pieces.






Such an amazing smoke pattern from some burning incense

Tracy with another one of Patti's creations ...

Lucinda with Patti's version of a Neapolition ice cream cap!

Our Tennessee mantel is so similar to our former Texas mantel

Detail from our mantle ...



Leave it to Clint to give a new meaning to the term
 BLOOD SHOT EYES !



About those red eyes, my sister brought these Rudolph Red Noses that lit up and blinked.  We got creative with them and used them not only for noses but for eyes! They were not blinking in unison so I had  to make several pictures to get them both lit at the same time. (No, not Clint, only the eyes)  ;~D