Christmas Season 2023/2024 - 10th Day of Christmas: The Porch

 Wednesday, January 3, 2024

The 10th Day of Christmas - Ten Lords A-Leaping

Exhausted upon my return from work so I built a fire. 

                     

What you'd see on our porch. 

Christmas Season 2023/2024 - 8th Day of Christmas: New Year's Day Part 2

 Monday, January 1, 2024

The 8th Day of Christmas

Also took the snowmen on the porch and boxed them back up. 

 

And put some deer and bottle brush trees up instead. Again, I don't have enough room for everything so I'm having to rotate stuff. 

 

Listened to The Nutcracker this afternoon. Dale and I both enjoyed it. 

       

Christmastide 2020: Christmas Day - The First Day of Christmas: Good Night

Friday, December 25, 2020

Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Holiday Season 2018 - James J. Hill House

Saturday, December 8, 2018

After the Ramsey House we headed over to the James J. Hill house on Summit Avenue as there was a pop-up holiday gift shop that Noel wanted to check out. We didn't take the tour but judging from the main entrance it looks like it must be pretty spectacular. I found this nifty bottle brush tree there...

The Day After 2017 - Joe and Noel's Post Holiday Shopping Adventure

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Noel and I weren't even sure we were going to attempt our day-after-Christmas-shopping-spree this year based on what things were looking like the day before Christmas Eve (bleak - were weren't seeing much). We decided to give it a go anyway. It helped to set our expectations low because we ended up finding a lot of really cool stuff. I found the reindeer pictured above at Patina and the reindeer pictured below at Bibelot.

I found the bottle brush tree below at a new little shop on Chicago Avenue. The two small reindeer below were found at Bibelot.

The bottle brush trees below with the turquoise and silver balls was obtained at Victory.

Of course, everything was half off!

Oh, and Noel was sweet to give me an angel from her collection! She's much better than I am about passing on Christmas tchotchkes that she's no longer using. I could stand to do a major edit but I've been saying that for years.

Christmas Season 2016/2017 - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2016

Saturday, December 31, 2016

Didn't make it to midnight this year and that's okay.

Christmas Season 2013/2014 - Odds and Ends 5

The bottle brush trees went up on New Year's Day. They look nice on the porch.

Bottle Brush Christmas Trees

I've been collecting bottle brush Christmas trees for the last few years. The a from Victory in Minneapolis. The reindeer is from Patina.  They look good together out on the porch.