It's Christmas time again!

It's been a while since I blogged, but that's because I was busy with markets and Holiday Craft shows.  Then of course, the baking must be done, the shopping must be accomplished, wrapped and the boxes for family away must be sent.  And the house must be decorated.  And finally it is all done!  Yay!!

Here are the pictures for Christmas 2010.

We had a tiny bit of snow when these were taken.  Right now it's raining, and there isn't much snow in the forecast - in fact there are only flurries forecast for the next week.  It looks like a green Christmas at this point.:-(

This is as you approach the house from the centre of town.

And the Front of the house - you can see the tree through
 the living room window.

The  driveway side.  No flash to see how it worked.
Not so good!
Notice the one bulb out?

And the back of the house!  We don't even need the outside light...hahahahaha

 We've started to replace some of the outside lights with LED's.  The Power Commission had a light exchange on the night of the Christmas Parade, so we took advantage.  So, we have a bit fewer lights on the outside this year.  Some of the strings are quite old and it's harder to get them to work each time, so every year the patterns will be a little different.

Now for Inside!  The decorations are mostly the same - with a few little tweaks.

This is what you see when you come in the back door.
This is the door we use most of the time.
That's the Dining Room turned office through the door beside the fridge.

View from the office doorway beside the fridge.  That window
is on the driveway side of the house.  The hoya has been
moved to the window in the office as it is getting so long.  There
are flower buds everywhere on it!

This is the hall when viewed from the kitchen.
This doorway is opposite the
door to the outside.

Stairs from the front porch.

Steve added some coloured blinking lights to the clear garland lights this year.

Up we go to the second floor.

The village.  We hope to add to it in the future.

Library, complete with the Mabel-Cat!

And down we go again!  Entrance to the Living Room

 We made the most changes in the living room.  We took the stereo upstairs so we could have music up there, and changed the room around.  We put the china cabinet in the office (on the back wall, and no I'm not going to post pictures of that room - it's still a mess!)  We took a cabinet from the office and put it downstairs where we can use the extra shelf space.  It's amazing how much roomier the living room looks and feels now!

And, yes Sarah, that is one of the new lights on the ceiling in the living room.  :-)  We have replace all the old lights now, including the one in the hall (done today) and we just have to switch the chandelier in the office for the chandelier that was in the living room.

View from the hall.

View from the front corner opposite the hall entry.

From the corner in front of the desk.

View from the office doorway.

So that's it for this year.  I hope you enjoyed the tour!

Steve and I would like to wish you all a 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, 

and may 2011 be the best year ever for you!