It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas....

Finally started unpacking some boxes and getting some of the Decorations out. Put up the tree the other day and finally found the box with the ornaments. I don't have too much out this year as we wont be in this house too much longer and it's still a mess. Especially now that we got all the rest of our stuff that's been in storage for the last few months....oh my....my house is floor to ceiling boxes...and we are STILL renovating! I really don't want to unpack all the boxes as 1) I have NO WHERE to put half this stuff here and 2) we'll just be moving AGAIN in a few months when the NEW house is finished. So here's what I've got to share so far in the line of Christmas Decor......
As I said the Tree is up.....you can see a few boxes off to the right there....and if you look carefully under the Tree you'll see my cat Ambie Hiding under there...LOL ..I had no idea she was there until I looked at the pics later...
This Little Angel is one of my Favorites....The Co-ed made her WAY back in the day...kindergarden, I think? She's graced my Tree every year since.

Update:I've just been informed that she made it in Girl Scouts...the ONE year she was in it. She was sooo deprived as a child.....LOL

Of course EVERY Tree in Wisconsin needs a PACKER ornament!!! And it doesn't hurt to also have a WI Badgers Ornmament as well!



And this cute little Bird House is my NEW one for 2009....I went to the Osthoff Craft Fair last weekend in Elkhart Lake, WI. I also got a couple of cute figurines from the same vender..The two German Characters on the left are from the same vender as the Bird House Ornament...The Tall Russian Doll in the Middle is an ornament I got at another Vender...I chose to stand her here with my other Russian and German decorations instead of hanging her on the Tree. And then I have the 3 Matryoshkas. The smaller one on the left I also got at the Osthoff Fair from yet another Vender. The other tw were both given to me by a couple of adortable Russian Girls who had come over in a Student Work Exchange program....the larger one in the Middle was from Olga....she stayed with us for about a month a few years ago. She was friends with The Recruit and when he told us she had nowhere to stay(long story) we allowed her to stay with us. I really enjoyed having her stay with us and wish we could have had her longer. The smaller one on the right was from Camille. She was the Recuit's girlfriend for a while. He had met her at work and they started dating. They continued their relationship for a good year or two after she went back home . He had planned to move to Russia, and marry her. But ...it never worked out.


Here are a few pics of my Nieces and their children at the Osthoff Craft Fair....