I Will Honour Christmas In My Heart

I will honour Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year.
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.
The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.
I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

~ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Monday, February 25, 2013

Happy Rudolph Day!!

 It's Rudolph Day and I remembered!!

 
Last month on Rudolph's Day,  the 25th of every month, I shared how I changed some of my Christmas decorations into Winter and Valentine's Day Decorations........

Click HERE if you missed it.

This month, I will share the rest of those decorations with you......

I left up the 7 foot tree in the Living Room that looked like this for Christmas.....



I re-decorated it for Valentine's Day.....



And I also left up the 7 foot slim tree in the Dining Room that looked like this for Christmas....



And turned it also into a Valentine's Day Tree....


 These 2 trees are now packed up and stored in our Storage Shed , waiting for next Christmas season.....

Last month, I showed you the 4 foot Tree that I had in the Den re-decorated for Valentine's Day....


 It has now been turned into a St. Patrick's Day Tree.....



After St. Patrick's Day, this tree will also be packed up and stored away until next Christmas season.....

But I still have this Tree waiting in the wings to make an appearance.....

Remember how it was decorated for Christmas in my Guest Room....



 Here it is waiting to be moved down into the Living Room .........


But you will have to wait until next month to see it all decorated for Easter in all it's finery!!

Slowly, most of the "Christmas" decorations are being packed up and stored away.  But I have managed to get several months use out of a lot of the decorations instead of only several weeks.....

Even the outside, which was decorated for Winter,  was tweaked to celebrate Valentine's Day.....

A Valentine Wreath on the door.....


A string of red lights added to the garland.....


And a red lighted heart in the window....


My Winter outside decorations will soon be getting packed away too.......

Once all the snow melts!!

So I hope I have showed you how you can stretch out the length of time that you use your "Christmas" decorations and keep that warm glow in your home through out the dark deary Winter......

And sometimes beyond.....

HAPPY RUDOLPH DAY!!!

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Monday, February 11, 2013

Friday, January 25, 2013

Happy Rudolph Day!! Keep Up some of those Christmas Decorations!!

Happy Rudolph Day!!

I remembered Rudolph Day for this month.....

What is Rudolph Day you ask?????/

Why it is the 25th of every month and I hope to remember to do a Christmas related post on the 25th of each month this year.....

For this month, I want to share with you how I changed some of my Christmas Decorations into Winter and Valentine's Day decorations.

I started first with the outside decorations......

This is what my Front Porch looked like decorated for Christmas this year......


 
 And this is what it now looks like decorated for Winter.......





 See the difference??

Inside, I decorated the Den and Kitchen for Winter using some things that were used for Christmas like one of these Alpine trees that were in the Dining Room at Christmas.....
I took one of those alpine trees and decorated it with birds and birdhouses and turned it into a Winter Tree and created this little Winter vignette in the corner by the Hutch in the Kitchen....


In the Den, This is what my China Cupboard looked liked decorated for Christmas....



And this is what it looks like now decorated for Winter...





 I also did not pack away some bottle brush trees and a feather tree from my Christmas decorations and used them in Winter vignettes in the Den......

 And used the child size ice skates from the sled that I had in my Guest Room .....
In vignettes in the Den.....


 And......

This is what the Den Tree looked like decorated for Christmas.....


And now that it is decorated for Valentine's Day.....



I also did not take down  the evergreen garlands in the Kitchen that I decorated with candy ornaments for Christmas.......


 And for Valentine's Day , I added heart ornaments to both garlands......
 
So you don't have to take down ALL of your Christmas decorations.....

Please click HERE to see my Outside Winter Decorations

Please Click HERE to see my Inside Winter Decorations

Please Click HERE to see my Den Valentine's Day Tree

Please click HERE to see my Kitchen decorated for Valentine's Day

Please come back and visit in Feb. for Rudolph's Day when I  share how I turned more of my Christmas Trees into Valentine's Day Trees......

HAPPY RUDOLPH DAY!!

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