Some favorite ornaments on the tree and off:

A bowl of goodies on the coffee table

I’ve had this ornament for years and years – a little ceramic deer that I got in my early 20’s

My little, teeny wooden Santa next to some much bigger ornaments

This dog on a pillow ornament is always the last we put on, in honor of our late and so beloved boy, Winston.

Isn’t this a beautiful ornament?

This one has been around a long time. My church choir director made it and gave it to me in high school. I hope you can tell it spells out “Claudia”

Pink vintage loveliness

More vintage beauty

Our tree – I’ve since added more of the wonderful large cream bottle brush ornaments because I love them so and because they are carried in the shop!

More later!

Yesterday, we went to our usual Christmas Tree place and picked out our tree. It is quite lovely. The branches have settled a bit and tonight we will decorate it. The den smells of pine, my favorite scent. I have a pine scented candle, pine scented soap and I used to use pine scented bubble bath. I say used to because I can no longer find it. When I was living in Philadelphia and going to grad school, I would buy this wonderful Austrian pine bubble bath from Wanamakers. I used it all the time. When I moved to Boston to teach, I found it at Caswell Massey, if I remember correctly. That particular brand of pine bath eventually was impossible to find, and I used another brand. Now I can’t find any pine bubble bath. If you have a lead on one, I’d love to know about it.

Today I started decorating a bit around the house. I love the holidays, don’t you?

I’ll post more tomorrow.