Tis the season to be busy....  and we have been busy!  I have been decorating Christmas trees.  One of my {many} weaknesses is Christmas ornaments.  I have collected them all my life starting with the ones my mother gave me every year as a child.  These were special and carefully dated by her, inconspicuously somewhere on the ornament.  Every year we added another like this little gem from 1967.

We also have made a lot of ornaments over the years... everything from my Mom's wooden Sea Birds, made when she was living on the Outer Banks of North Carolina...

to my felt and sequin beauties made in the 1970's,

But more about all that later.....

Because of this love of Christmas ornaments, I usually decorate more than one tree.. in fact, some years I have decorated as many as 12.. yes.. a little over the edge.  This year, we have 9.  Seven are at our city house and two up at the lake.  Would you like a tour?  We'll have to spread it over a few days... I have a new job that is keeping me busy!!  We'll start tomorrow.
Susan