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O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree… today we went tree shopping and brought home our lovely Noble Fir. We’re letting the branches settle overnight and tomorrow we will decorate. In the meantime, I’ve been doing a little decorating in other parts of the house.

The simplest decoration: some pine cones next to the parakeet lamp.


The garland on the stairway.


Santa on the spinet desk.


Oh, and this handsome guy. My favorite decoration. I wanted to share this photo of my husband that I took for his website. As you know he is a singer/songwriter as well as an actor. I took a bunch of shots of him the other day. We used the porch as our setting. Just in the nick of time – the next day, this particular area of the porch was covered in snow!

Comments

  1. Claudia, your Christmas decor is wonderful!! So happy and festive, I love it!

    Your hubby is really handsome! What a wonderful picture, it looks like an album cover :) How cool to have such a talented guy! I would love to be sang too, so romantic!!
    Hugs,
    Amy

  3. Claudia,

    Your holiday decor looks wonderful … can’t wait to see the tree all done up … please share!

    Great pic of handsome hubby … gotta love a man in cowboy boots ; ) … AND a guitar … lucky girl …

    xo
    Jill

  7. I’m so glad you got your tree! I can see you’ll be busy for awhile. And there’s your beloved parrot lamp. Of course you’d want to add a little decoration to that precious object. The stairs look heavenly. And your hubby is a cutie!
    Brenda

  8. Claudia,
    Thanks so much for stopping by my blog – this is so much fun to view everyones decorations. I love your choice of colors. Merry Christmas !!!

  9. He’s adorable and quite the “hunk”, sugar! Maybe you should tell us his name so we can go buy his CDs. Looks like a cowboy though to me… LOL
    xoxo,
    Connie

  11. I think he’s the best decoration of all, Claudia! Loved seeing the pic of your sweetie, and I loved seeing what you have done inside. I have not done the first thing, and I’m not in a panic… YET! ;-)

    I have been enjoying other people’s decorations.

    XO,

    Sheila :-)

  13. Oh so so lovely…thank you for sharing your Christmas home…it must be nice to have such a talented husband who can sing and act…hope he is sing Christmas songs to you.

  14. Hello Claudia,

    I love that Santa! Everything looks so pretty…just simple touches here and there add such a festive tone. Great picture of your husband….So what kind of music does he write??

    Have a great day,
    Stephanie

  16. Hi Claudia, I want to thank you so much for all your visits to my blog and lovely comments… if I don´t come to visit you often is just because of the time, too busy. Let me tell you that your decor is fab and your husband, wow, a very handsome man!!!!! love his boots, I remember I had very similar ones and I loved them.
    Muchos cariños
    María Cecilia

  17. What a handsome husband & darling bird lamp. You have the ‘touch’ for decorating, Claudia. Beautiful.

    Merry Christmas ~
    TTFN ~ Marydon
    NEW BLOG ~ blushingrosetoo.blogspot.com

  18. Oh darn, I forgot it snowed out your way. I’ll have to wait for it to melt before I sneak in and steal that parakeet lamp. Otherwise you’ll be able to follow my footprints to get it back! In all seriousness – gorgeous! Everything! Love all our decorations! Great photo of Don!… Donna

  19. Keep showing us picture of you home decorations. So, lovely. I love the decor on the stair railing. Can’t wait to see a photo of your decorated tree!

    Merry, merry times to you!

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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.

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