Another Week Closer!

Can you believe Christmas is in another 10 days?  Hard to believe, but it will soon be here and gone for yet another year and 2010 is right on our doorsteps!  Just seems like yesterday when we were all in a tizzy wondering what would happen when the clock struck mid-night on New Year's 2000 :)  Gosh, nearly 10 years ago... doesn't even seem possible. 

I took some pix of our Christmas decorations around our home again this year and thought I'd share them here.  This first one here is of our babies' white tree which we have in our Living Room.  It has all of the ornaments on it which we've collected for our angel babies these past couple years. 

Here is the ornament that I found for our angels this year...

Isn't it the sweetest?  I saw this in at Kohl's when they first put out their Christmas merchandise, and I of course thought of my precious angel babes right away and I grabbed 3 of them.  After I got them home I took a brown Slick Writer marker and wrote each of their individual names and  the year on the bottoms.  Perfect addition to their tree this year :)

Sitting on the window are a collection of hand painted Santa figurines, and they are representations of Santas around the world.  This is a collection that we've gotten passed down from my parents... a church congregation member painted them all and gave them as a gift to my dad several years ago. 

This is how the mantle is decorated for the holiday...

The art work in the center is a pastel drawing that I had drawn and had framed as a Christmas gift to my parents back in 1999.  I quite like it!

And this here is an absolute favorite of mine to display from year to year!  It's a primitive pottery nativity scene which was a gift to us from my parents for our 1st Wedding Anniversary!  It's a treasure...

And this one is of the babies' stockings hung... these are the ones that were a gift to me from their wonderful daddy last Christmas...

Well, that just happens to only be half of our decorations.  We also set up the bigger tree and some other things down in our basement area this year and I didn't even take pictures down there yet.  Maybe later, and if not, we'll be opening gifts down there this year so I'll have pix in some form later ;) 

And before I move on outta here for the time being, thought I'd also share a sampling of the Christmas cards that I made this year... need to share a lil' something crafty after all...

I did these using the Winter Woodland Cricut cartridge and dressed them up with some chunky glitter, Prima flowers and pearl and glitter and gem brads.  Thanks for stopping by... I'll try to make it back for another post before the 24th, but have yourselves a great week getting all the last minute stuff checked off your lists! :)