A Festive Forest

It's finally a festive forest in my home! (Say that five times fast!) So, c'mon in! (Cue the music!)

My house is a 1960s ranch, about 1,250 square feet. The living room is long and and the far end serves as the dining room. Between the two spaces, there are four trees. I love trees.

So, let's start in the hall, a wall tree with mini-Radko ornaments and my Greeting Angel welcome guests.

I love these smaller ornaments. And they are very sturdy!

This is the main tree. In the past, I have written that it is a biography of my life. Every ornament means something.

They are older or cherished because they came from my parents' (or in one special case, my grandparents') tree. 

Others reflect our travels, were were gifts from friends, or the things I picked up along the way, just because I liked them!

This one, the Woodland tree, stays up much of the winter and pretty much everything on it is a bird, a snowflake or otherwise reflects winter. 

It pretty much looks the same every year.

And I love it.

The Happy Tree stays pretty much the same as well. I couldn't resist this flocked tree a few years ago and it makes me happy, just looking at it. 

Everything here is felt or fiber and it's all bright colors. When I'm having a bad day, I check this one out!

In the back, by the dining table is what used to be the Solstice Tree. This year it's the Bright Tree. 

For whatever reasons, a lot of the pretty glass ornaments and the Radkos didn't seem to fit right on the Big Tree, so they got their own!

And, of course, I tucked in a few vintage postcards there, too! 

In the family room, is Mom's Tree. Everything here is either something that my mom collected or something that reflects her, that I know she'd like. 

I've written about this one in other posts so I won't go into detail. But this one makes me happy, too.

My Feltie Tree is on the dry sink/bar. It started out with more but I plucked a few from inventory for gifts! 

In the kitchen, my small white tree, made a Southern Exposure in this workshop. I miss those Southern Exposure workshops!

(And while we're in the kitchen, the wee shelf by the sink)

Oh yes, I even lit up the rosemary plant! 

No tree, but a bit of festivity on the baker's rack, too! Cocoa, anyone?

There's a tree in the bathroom (just because I can) and another (the Angel Tree) in the guest room. 

 In my room, Dad's Tree -- all ornaments that reflect my dad.

This year, my quilt is a vintage red and white one.

 And of course, the creche, a gift from a lovely friend when she moved and downsized.

Since Rick is traveling this week and will need to semi-isolate when he's home from the trade show and till he gets a Covid test, we wanted to get him decorated before he left. 

I let him take three of my small trees and he gets his own festive forest filled with ornaments that date back to when the boys were small and the angel topper his grandmother made.

Elmo and Lamb Chop await the Toddlers (who by now are more into trucks!)

I leave you with one last tree -- this one came down in the neighborhood during the wind storms this week and crossed my road.

It only took a couple of guys from the fire department to make short work of this one.

When I think of the damage and loss of life elsewhere, I realize, we are so lucky.

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