Ashes to ashes....

Tonight, under a gorgeous, star filled sky, Paul helped me burn some baggage I was not bringing into 2015....ashes to ashes, back to Mother Earth...

Merry!

Counting blessings tonight....

 

Antique ornament tree, 2

 

 

 

Antique ornament tree, 1

We have a small tree in our dining room where we display the fragile, antique ornaments that belonged to Paul's grandmother. Emma decorated it this year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crochet

 

Flurries!

Silly!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gingerbread House, reveal!

Annie's house...

A friend's house...

And, a collaboration house to take to the neighbor...

A fun tradition!

 

 

 

 

 

Gingerbread House preview, 4

 

Gingerbread House preview, 3

 

Gingerbread House preview, 2

 

"Say cheese"

Part of my Uncle's old-timey camera collection

 

 

Gingerbread House preview

 

Long before there was an Elf on the shelf....

....we had a decapitated Santa!

 

I always thought this was a cute decoration, until my children's friends started coming over and getting completely freaked out. Apparently, one person's cute and festive is another person's creepy and weird.

 

London Ornament, Windsor Castle

 

London Ornament, Viking

From our trip to The British Museum, Viking Exhibit

 

 

London Ornament, phone booth

 

Hubs on the rocks

 

Punkins looking at Pumpkins

In Ogunquit....a little late on this one...

 

 

Berries on our walk, 2

 

Berries on our walk

 

Birthday flowers for a friend

 

Four birds, framed