Holidays

Although I usually don’t decorate for the holidays until the last possible moment, if at all, since we were having friends and family over for Thanksgiving, I talked Tom into decorating early (he gets stuck doing all the hard stuff). Though I STILL don’t have my sleighbells out, so it’s not official yet. But here are some photos taken Wednesday.

And so it begins, after a trip to the attic.

Bored by it.

Aliens are trying to beam up Mrs. Claus!

Only one ornament was harmed in the trimming of the skinny tree.

Explanation of the next two pictures follows:

My friend Steve R. had a copy of A Christmas Angel Collection with only one angel partially colored before he died. The book contains drawings of angels based on Renaissance paintings that can be colored or painted, glittered or otherwise adorned, and cut out.

I ordered several copies many years ago. Now I have dozens of these angels done by various friends and relatives. Each year, usually Tim places them on the molding over our windows in the living room and dining room. This means we can’t use the ceiling fan in the dining room, or angels go flying. Some of the angels are signed by their artists, but not all of them.