Christmas Home Tour 2014

It's almost Christmas! Here's a quick spin around our old farm house. I'm starting in the sun room where I've added a white spray painted limb with snowflakes to the ladder shelf.

My tree is also in the sun room this year.

This paper angel has been on top of our Christmas tree for 25 years or longer. When Levi (my grandson) was 3 years old, he asked me why I had a scarecrow on top of my tree. He informed me that I was supposed to have a star and when I told him that I didn't have a star, he made me one... a pe'fect star. We've laughed over that scarecrow! It was precious and so is my star!

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a manger, since the birth of Christ is why we celebrate.

In the dining room, I have a white painted grapevine wreath with a sprig of red berries, an old ice-cream churn filled with tree trimmings and vintage birds, and a ruler star hanging in one of the kitchen windows.

I have a little pink in my bathroom...

...and in my bedroom I have a few vintage touches... a Santa with a "Season's Greetings", a bird's nest with a red ball and a garden urn filled with gold balls.

 

Our stocking are hung by chimney with care... and with old soda bottles... in hopes that Saint Nick soon will be here!

While visions of sugar plums dance in our heads!

 

May you experience the miracle of Christmas through God's gift to you... His Son.

Here's a Heart Rock for your Pocket:

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 1 John 4:9

Wishing you God's best and a Merry Christmas,

Elaine

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She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins. Matthew 1:21

Wishing you God's best,
Elaine 

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For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—

and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—

Ephesians 2:8

Wishing you God's Best,

Elaine 

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Christmas Traditions

Christmas traditions! 
Those wonderful traditions that make our holidays feel like home, that make them magical. Traditions that link past years with the present. Each family has their own. For me, the Christmas season begins right after Thanksgiving Dinner. That's when we go in search of our cedar tree to place by the front door. We began this tradition when The Boy was just a little guy. Year after year, we walked down the dirt road, after stuffing ourselves with a Thanksgiving feast, and picked out a special little tree to take back home with us to Louisiana. The tree always took its place next to the front door covered with lights. We no longer live in the city, but our tradition continues, and now The Boy cuts his own tree for his home.
This year was no different. After a wonderful lunch with our family, we loaded up in search of our little trees. My grandsons each picked out their own tiny tree to carry home.

Levi and Dylan choosing the "perfect" tree.

Mine has taken its rightful place next to the front door where the lights will burn until New Year's Day.

Cedar trees tend to be a little like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree...a little scrappy. I like scrappy.

The stars represent the Star of Bethlehem that announced the birth of Jesus.

An old crock holds this years tree.

My Radio Flyer is carrying a cedar tree and firewood.

The old Santa used to stand on my Grandparents front porch at Christmas.

Keeping in mind why we celebrate... Let the Christmas season begin!

Here's a Heart Rock for your Pocket:
“Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus." Luke 1:30-31

Wishing you God's best,
Elaine

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