~mason jars....Christmas style~

Remember the mason jars I decorated with

at Thanksgiving....well-I've used them again 

for Christmas. I wasn't lying when I said

I use them all the time. 

I have so many Christmas decorations and

I just didn't have the energy to go all out 

this year. I decided to decorate a few areas in

the house and call it good. This is the shelf

in my living room which the jars are currently 

sitting on....with a whole bunch of other glitzy

garb. Can you tell I like gawdy?

The colors I chose to decorate with this year were

blue/green/silver/white/gold

I threw in pine cones and some twine in an 

attempt to give it that shabby chic look.

A good friend gave me a bunch of beautiful crosses

last year that I also threw into the mix. 

I also decorate with these crosses at Easter.

I have quite a few of them.

My china hutch.

More of the same.

Sofa table behind my couch.

Didn't take picture of the whole thing????

Above my couch I strung a piece of the hemp string

and wrapped gold glitzies around it then hung

silver and gold ornaments from it.

Then we have the tree....

which we had to put in the corner up on 

our trunk so our little lady can't reach it.

This is not blue/green/silver/gold....

it is traditional colors with all of our

sentimental and meaningful ornaments on it.

I didn't even bother putting my fancy ornaments

that are all matching and proper.

Somehow, I have discovered that the ornaments

marking my kids' first Christmas or those

ornaments made for us by them are more

beautiful than any 'ol glass and beaded 

ornament I've ever seen.

Another thing that's traditional flavored...

OUR STOCKINGS.

My Mom has made everyone in the family

a stocking. She's made them one by one over

the years as our family has grown and EVERY

SINGLE person in the family has a

hand made stocking from Mom.

It's one of my favorite things she has ever made me.

The lights are up.

The tree is trimmed.

Stockings are hung.

Looks like I need to get started on those projects huh?

Tomorrow I'll start....for real this time.