More Decorations

Just thought I would continue sharing our Christmas decorations, then I'll share photos from our "parties" in another post. I love Christmas and decorating for it. I have to say Betty is not the most enthusiastic participant when it come to decorating, so it falls to me. However, she does seem to enjoy them once I have completed decorating.

So, here are some more of our decorations.

This figurines were painted by us from "green ware". We used to do quite a bit of ceramic work and were given these figurines. they are on the table with the angels. On the left is a music box with carolers which I picked up at the Kikasa outlet store. Behind the tree candle is a candle holder and candle from Pfaltzgrapf.


I love animated decorations and this is the first of many we have. Santa is checking his email on his laptop and answers Billy's request. After the he send the email he still has 435,000 more.


This is our door greeter. The lamp lights up to show our friends the way into our home.


This snowman head is animated also. Surprise! As you walk by, or touch it, is replies "Merry Christmas!"


On the wall leading to the kitchen, I hung this decoration. It was made for us by our neice Jennifer many years ago. It is one of our special decorations.



More animated decorations. The dog is really great. As "Jingle Bells" plays, the tail wags and the ears move up and down. The snowman on the inflates and then deflates as "Frosty the Snowman" is sung. And the snowman in the middle is the first animated decoration I purchased. He is the "bouncing snowman" and jumps up and sown as he sings. I used to jump with it but, I have outgrown that, at least so far. I placed the fancy Santa, given to us by Mary, in that location to hide a phone jack.


The last animated Santa in the living room is "Surfin' Santa". He sings and dances to the tune of Surfing Safari by the Beach Boys.


In the kitchen, we have our Christmas mugs displayed under the bulletin board with a big red bow. Oh, yeah, we have a jazz piano playing Santa there also He plays a "jazzy" version of different Christmas songs.


On the kitchen table, we have Betty tree. If you look closely, you will see it has ornaments relating to Florida. Santa in a bathing suit, dolphins, starfish, etc. In the upper right corner are our "kissing angels". We have had them for a number of years and we keep them out on the desktop all year.

We have individual stocking holders, but they won't stay on the top of the entertainment center, so when we saw this stocking holder at Sam's we purchased it. I was very pleased with how it looked, but I couldn't find our stockings so I had to get new ones.



Meanwhile, back in the living room. This house was again hand painted by us and has a light inside that lights up the windows. We have had it for a number of years.



No Florida home can be without a flamingo, so our "Santa Flamingo" serves that purpose. It is standing in the arch of our entry.


Every Chrsitmas tree needs a train set. As you can see ours goes around the base of the tree on a tree skirt again made by our neice Jennifer. You may notice some ornament boxes under the tree if you look closely. Those are for Daryl, Doug and Amy. Each year we purchase an ornament for each of the kids, as well as the ornament for the series' we have.


And last, but certainly not least, this Santa and Mrs. Claus were made for us by Lolo and they are always a special part of our decorations.

There are other decorations in the house but I think I have bored you enough. I do hope you have enjoyed seeing them and wish you could all see them in person. When I have completed the outside decorations, this weekend, I'll share photos with you.