Oh Christmas Tree

Christmas Day 2012

Here is the tree assembled, 24 Advent windows plus a few trimmings.

Fourteenth Day of Advent - Under the tree

Day 14 of Advent

(Family cat from Grandmother's Tree)

I am setting up and decorating the tree this week, a long job because of all the pretty and special ornaments that have come my way over the years.  The tree also has been with us for many years, "an artificial tree .... part of the family Christmas for so long that it is beginning to feel quite real."

Ninth Day of Advent - A fairy for the top of the tree

Day 9 of Advent

(paper novelty from The Illustrated Fairy Gazette, A Christmas Celebration)

 Here's a little fairy for the top of the tree,
and here is how that tree is getting on,

with joyful traditions, trifling indulgences, happy anticipations, music and merriment, hearth and home, sparkle and fairy dust - and all of it on Santa's shoulders.  No wonder he needs helpers.

(And not to forget, the giveaway)