Trees and gifts ...

We are still having unseasonably cold and icy weather and we are bracing for a hell of a winter storm. The weather guys say it's suppose to snow from tonight (Saturday) until Monday. This should be interesting! I do have a couple of gifts still get, but if I can't get out, I'll order them online, print out the picture and they can have the item when it arrives :)

My father in law gives us all money for Christmas. This year some of the money went towards new tires for my car, but I splurged and got myself something I've always wanted, but never found the perfect one ... may I introduce y0u to my RED tree! lol It looks crooked in the picture, but it really isn't. I hung all my stitched ornaments on my new tree. I just love being able to see all the ornaments .. usually they get kinda lost in my regular Christmas tree. I found the ribbon and fell in love .. it's got santa hats all over it .. not sure I like it in the tree .. but it'll do this year.

Here's a picture of our family Christmas tree. We got a smaller one this year and set it on our coffee table. I really like it, although I couldn't put all our ornaments on it .. we went through our ornament boxes and picked out ones we wanted to see this year .. maybe next year we'll get a bigger tree But I do love it :) Oh and yes, those are stuffed animals in the windows above. I don't know how this started, but over the years we decided to start putting our Christmas stuffed animals in the high windows .. they now cover the windows in the family room (where the tree is) the dining room and the living room! lol

Here's my favorite two trees with snow on them ...

Now on to a couple of lovely surprises that arrived in the mail last week. The first ornament was tucked inside a Christmas card from Wendy. I was soooo surprised when I open it up .. look at the wonderful ornament Wendy stitched for me .. I just adore it! and the finishing is really nice!

and here's the back fabric .. isn't it great :) Thank you again Wendy for your friendship and this lovely Christmas ornament.

This ornament arrived with a few other goodies from my dear friend Karen. I forgot to take pictures of everything .. but I stole these off Karen's blog, this sweet ornament is already hanging on my red tree. Karen coffee dyed the fabric .. it's it cute :)

Here's the other side ...

Karen also sent me some of her coffee dyed fabric .. last night we were watching White Christmas and I stitched this and finished it too. I think it turned out really cute ... Believe is a freebie from Tanya (The Sampler Lady). I stitched the Belle Soie Cranberry.

Here's the back of the ornament. The reindeer is a freebie from a French site that I can't find the link for ... I stitched the reindeer with Belle Soie Espresso .. I really like how this ornament turned out. Thanks for the fabric Karen :) I found the rusted bells on Ebay .. thanks for the tip Vonna :)

Whew .. didn't expect to have so much to show you all at once! Thanks for visiting and for all your lovely comments! Only 5 more days .. are you all ready???

I'm grateful for my red tree ...