I skipped the tree this year, in fact, I didn't have an indoor tree last year either, and the artificial tree we did have, I donated to a garage sale. I find I do less decorating every year, but I wanted to make a seasonal statement of some sort, so I decorated my antique door frame.
This is the top half of an old door. My brother gave it to me years ago, and I moved it around the state, never really knowing what to do with it, but knowing it was too cool to part with.
I found a $10 mirror at a garage sale, and Handyman worked his magic and had it secured in this frame in a matter of minutes. It was perfect.
In past years, I wound clear, white lights through the greenery... I let it go this year.
Do you still have a Christmas gift from childhood? I received this sled on my 10th Christmas and this was the first Christmas I had not received a doll. I was disappointed by no doll, but look what I did keep... Today, when I looked at this sled, I remembered all the fun I had experienced. I kept an old piece of candle in my coat pocket and waxed those runners until they were like glass. There were times when I was flying down hills that I felt that my sled and I were 'one'!
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Time to place it on the front porch.
I haven't been 'one' with my sled for quite a few years, but I still feel like it's a part of me.
Do you still have a gift from a long ago Christmas?
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Nowadays we just put up a little, pre-lit tree. Cuppa also does other things, but that's as far as we go with a tree now. Besides, with the size of our place, I'm not sure how we could do much more.
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I like the decorations on the mirror. The only tree I miss is the Cedar tree Dad always brought into the house. I always hated it like you do now. I thought it stunk. But looking back, I remember the Joy Dad had in bringing it into the house. Dad was happy. I was always glad to see Dad happy. I had seen so many times when he wasn't happy. Dad had more stress than you can imagine. Financial and work. He had tons of work to do, tons, feed 200 cows, mild 20 by hand twice a day, lamb out 50 ewes, put up 200 acres hay, love his wife, raise 6 snot nosed kids who hated chores, sort, brand, vaccinate, de-horn calves, raise 2000 laying hens, gather the eggs, candle all of them, haul in 200 stacks of hay with an under-slung with a cable winch, and much more I don't have time for.
We 6 kids, 5 boys and 1 girl, had a sled just like this. We even have 8mm film, still, of our escapades at the farm.
I'm crying over the memories. Too many to list. The great times, and the pain. Baseball, 4-H, School, horses, goats, Sunday School, Grandma's, swimming, sorting cows and calves, mowing hay with a 14' Kosh mower with an "M" Diesel when I was 9, hating my Dad for his anger, loving my Mom for her quiet submission, watching my Mom go without, seeing the pain my siblings went through, and I must end, their is more. But God is sovereign and trustworthy, I finally come to realize. I praise Him! I trust Him!
House muffin, you are beautiful, I love you, just continue being you.
Love the mirror with the lights and decor. We just put our small tree up today. Joslyn thought it was so pretty. Marian gave me a telescope for Christmas one year and I loved it. I used to look at the moon. Wish I still had the thing. Not sure what happened to it.
I am a horder. Even as a child. While my brothers were breaking their toys, swapping them, selling them, I kept mine. I still have a squeeky dog from my first Christmas (obviously I don't remember that one), my dolls house from my fourth... I could go on.
This year we are puzzled as to what to do with our tree. We usually have a six footer, but not sure how it's going to survive with our in-to-everything puppy. xx
Joy,I have a sled too that I use to decorate with.. My step-father gave it to my daughter some 23 years ago.. I love it!! I love to decorate with it too. And I have to say, I love the door you use instead of a tree. I think it's great! I can't quite part with decorating a tree yet, but I'm sure it will come as I get older and want less and less to manage around the house. Thanks for sharing you post today.. have a blessed Sunday!
That's a great looking sled!!! I can imagine the memories you must have..... sounds like fun. No sleds in this part of Texas.
The door with mirror and the decorations is beautiful......
I still have a couple of pitiful looking dolls from my childhood.
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I love your door-mirror, and you've decorated it beautifully!
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Joy I can't get over how much we have in common. We have an old door decorated in our bedroom and a sled on our porch too. lol I wish I had your nack for decorating though.. I love how you added the greenery around your door so much. And how cool to put a mirror in it! I'd have never thought of that! This week, I hope to cut some pine boughs and maybe I"ll try to add them around my doorframes as well. Thanks for the sweet inspiration!!!
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