Christmas Decorating- Additions to the Christmas Collections

For the most part the Christmas decorations landed in the same places this year – snowpeople and Santas on top of the speakers, gnomes on the white book shelves, Christmas villages on the small bookshelf, and nativity scenes on top of the china cabinet. The deer moved about a bit, though. The plaid deer found a new home on top of the new bookcase.

I found the one in the front at the end of the season last year I think at a drug store but I’m not quite sure. I made the little wooden guy inspired by one at Four Sided. Theirs had wire antlers and I had tried to make that work but couldn’t and had given up. But when I was making something else with pipe cleaners this year I got the idea to try them and I like the result. I just made this one though.

I got two new wooden trees this year so 8 had four foe each side of the “wooden” deer on top of the small CD bookcase.

We purchased the one in the front with some bark on it at The Found Cottage on our Michigan vacation. The one behind it came from a World Market.

We went to Columbia, Missouri for Thanksgiving and did a little shopping the next day. We found another cute alpine house (the one in the middle on the second shelf)

We also found this little metal pitcher for the kitchen ornament collection. It reminds me of the child sized pitchers at Nonotuck.

Our first purchase for this year was way back in the Spring at a TJ Maxx. As soon as I saw this Dala horse I knew we had to get him.

And my last one was The Grinch. When I saw him at Walgreens on my last last minute shopping trip I knew he belonged on my children’s book and movie characters tree.