It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas...

 My holiday decorating is all done....is yours? Have you gotten started yet? I think most people out there have. I usually wait until mid-December to start, but this year I decided that I wanted to put up the tree and decorate early...so that I can just relax and focus on the things that are really important....

Here's our little Christmas City...

And here's our Christmas Tree...

Oh and here's our beloved Rocky....I have to tell you that He helped with the tree, as always...gotta give credit here where credit is due ya know.... and he's tuckered out...he told me that he was not posing for any pictures this year for me to post on my blog, but after he saw these....he did give me persmission to post these and to tell you all how he'd helped and show you how tired he was after all that work :)

See?

He didn't help me with the curio cabinet though...I put all of the vintage Christmas stuff in there all by myself....

Most every single thing inside here came to me over the years  from  yard sale shopping....that's just too fun ain't it?  

I'll be looking forward to seeing your holiday posts in the weeks to come...thanks for stopping over to visit :)

This week I'm linking up with:
Rednesday
Cats On Tuesdays
Share The Love Wednesdays
Time Travel Thurday
Vintage Thingy Thursday
Show and Tell Friday
Thrifty Things Friday
Feathered Nest Friday
Vintage Inspiration Friday
Charm of Home

Click onto any of these links, and I will shuttle you over to a lot of other blogs and blog party fun.

Thanks girls for hosting :)

A Very Merry Christmas from our Home To Yours everybody.....I wanted to share something with you...
To me,  Jesus is the reason for the season,  not Santa Claus, but I do love Santa and  PLEASE KEEP READING, because  I wanted to share the SWEETEST article that I found ABOUT SANTA a couple of years ago and IT WAS THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE LEGEND OF St. Nicholas,  "Santa Claus"  After reading this article you may just give yourself permission to love the jolly old guy, just like when you were a kid.  

My heart was so touched to find out about this history and to find out more about this person, that I never really knew, but who had been such a vivid part of my Christmas childhood memories ... and after reading the article, I will never see Santa in the same light again.  Besides Santa is cute ain't he?  I created a page to share that story that I'm talking about, with you and I have a link  HERE so that you can go and read it for yourself if you would like to.

It's not that long of a story and it really is worth reading, especially if you have secretly said to yourself during the holidays, "I am so tired of seeing Santas everywhere, and where did this ever come from anyway, because it has nothing to do with Christmas"  I've heard it said a lot, just while out and about.... and I think we've all at some point and time, thought or said the same thing or heard it said.  This story will likely change your mind about the way you see him.....maybe even take away the commercialization of him a little bit.... and make you think of Santa in a whole different way.  That would be great wouldn't it?  Especially since you'll likely be seeing a lot of him this holiday season out and about everywhere....I'm not sayin' we should worship him, or anything, but maybe we'll just think of him with a smile and remember him the way that I think he would have wanted to be remembered.  After all, St. Nick loved Christ greatly and even went to prison because of his faith.  I just wanted to share this story and my link with you all, because reading this story did bless me and my family and my hopes is that it would bless you and yours  too.

Merry Christmas Everybody...
God Bless Us All!


Big hugs,
Queenie