It’s starting to feel a lot like Christmas…
Especially when you turn Eli loose with the camera…. herewith, an Eli-view of Christmas at the Smith house.
If you look VERY carefully under the tree, you will see not one, not two, but three cats…thumper is the white-gray lump behind the bottom of the teddy bear ornament, Hannah is the dark gray lump in the center, and Tyger the orange tabby is looking through a necklace of wood cranberries on the right:
This is a holiday quilt I made eons ago from a “cheater” panel, back when all I knew how to do (barely) was machine quilt with the feed dogs up and walking foot on. I always intended to go back and quilt more, but think I’ll just leave it be!
We have a cast iron (?) dragon “humidifier” on the woodstove which, when filled and the fire is going, puffs steam:
Then there is Zeus on the daddy-depression on the sofa (a year old only, and the sofa cushions are squished! sigh…)….
There is the mantel, which I rather like—just raw, heavy wood, currently decorated, with my Russian Santas, purchased when I went then with work at the US State Dept. in February 1997 on the right…I just LOVE them!:
Then the view of the chaos zone, aka “dining table” aka repository for all stuff. In this case, there is a gingerbread house (see earlier blogpost), kitchy trees on the antique high chair behind, Joshua’s guitar precariously propped in front……
And a totally cool “flub” of the tree (for some reason Photoshop Elements and Blogger aren’t playing nicely together, but you get the idea…no need to tilt head…just enjoy the blur!):
One of Eli’s favorite ornaments:
and the “real” picture of the tree, with more holiday doo-dads on the sideboard, which for lack of space elsewhere lives in the living room in this house: