♥ My Christmas Tree ♥

Hello friends,
I hope everyone is having a great Tuesday morning...I work today 11 to 4:30 so I'm glad I finished the tree yesterday, I still have to look for my punched tin star for the top:) I went really simple this year as far as decorating it, just lights and not as many as I usually put on, the garland I made years ago it's blue chambry torn in strips, knotted and material or homespun bows tied on every so many inches. I used fabric from my dad's pj's, fabric my mom gave me, and Nick's 9th grade shirt...so you can understand the memories from it:) Every year I think I'm going to get a new type of garland but when I pull it out of the box I just can't and use it anyway:) The ornaments are all from years ago...my grandmother's (who I was named after) red, tear drop ornaments, the kids that they made, what my mom had bought me, she bought me one every year. It's so pretty lit at night♥

I thought I'd show you the mantel lit after I added berry pics to the swag, the brown brick to me just makes everything on it look drab and to me it needed some color.

Well, here is the fire...DH is having such a ball with it, it still hasn't completely won me over yet but I have to admit it does give off heat alot better than a regular fireplace and is wonderful at night.

Buster just doesn't know what to make of it, when it started crackling and popping he ran around the coffee table to watch it...he is such a baby!

Hours later he is still thinking it over, he makes a wide berth around it when he goes to another room:)

I had Samantha yesterday and here she is on my computer...still amazes me watching a 3 year old working a mouse. She loves disneyplayhouse.com also Sprout.com and love to play the games. Sam also helped me decorate the tree, I just let her go and have fun with it of course every ornament was at the bottom:)

I wanted to let all of you know that I've finally figured out, by accident I might say, why some comments were not getting posted to my blog...here I have to go to my dashboard on blogger and retrieve them. I was so happy when I found them and it took me almost a half hour to publish them all.lol I felt so bad because there were questions from some of you and I do hope you know that I wasn't be rude I just didn't get them. Thanks goodness it's all fixed now and I'll know where to go to get your comments. Here are answers to some questions that I can remember:

My tree is artifical, I bought it when Aims was going out of business, it was a 250.000 tree for 100.00 I just didn't realize it was so big but I love it.

I don't use any backing when I do my stitcheries...I do it like they would have years ago, I like to use old feedsack or linen if I have it on hand.

That's all I can remember right now I should have wrote them down...I have to get ready for work...thanks for stopping by for a visit and have a wonderful Tuesday. I'll be back tomorrow for Whatcha Working on Wednesday:)