Goodies are coming!

I have a few Christmas goodies that just

arrived in the mail

sooo cute!

I thought today however  I would share

some of our fun

decorations from the last few years.

I tried to make them kid friendly 

so that if my son decided to handle them there would be no big loss!

The Putz Village was out of reach on purpose!

This was taken with my point and shoot

sorry it isn't as nice as usual.

I have been collecting Putz houses since I was in college

so 13 something years...

Ughh. Doesn't seem like that long.

Anyway!

I have all kinds and I don't discriminate!

My home is almost 100 years old,

so yes there are cracks in the wall here and there

I call it character...

This year the village will be moving to the dining room I think

I promise to take much better photos!

Again, horrible point and shoot

that won't rotate

but

for my sons first Christmas we used all soft knitted

ornaments

It was so cute!

Last year he was so focused on decorating this tinsel tree

I decided to let him have it as his own this year in his room

We are going to decorate it this weekend...

We used this skinny tree for lack of space and time

last year

All the ornaments are plastic

This is probably the best it looked

because little Keeper loved taking the ornaments off when we

weren't looking and then putting them all back on the bottom

It was pretty funny for a while

A year later i am still finding the tops of those ornaments all over

because every time he took one off the hook piece would pull the eye off!

By Christmas there were only a few that could be hung because they

still had the eye!

No remorse though because they were not my "special" pieces

I would highly recommend if you have toddlers

as children or grandchildren to keep your precious ornaments

out of reach.

They know no what they do!

If you have that perfect kid who does absolutely everything you say

then good for you!

You are like 1% of the population if you are telling the TRUTH!

This was Gingerbread Saturday Night!

We had so much fun

I let go of my need for perfection and we lathered on

(and ate)

 so much tacky sprinkles,candy,and icing it got to be

quite Hee-larious!

You can't even see my nice piping work on the front

because my son wanted those trees right there!

I gave up and my sister and I had great laughs during the whole thing!

I highly recommend an activity like this with little ones

because they really can't mess up

and they really feel like they are doing something big!

This was from a kit but they are so easy to make with simple graham crackers

and icing,candy you can buy on your own.

No baking involved!

The end of that night will be forever known as the

Great Village meltdown...

pictures of my son throwing an absolute tantrum when it was all over because

he wanted to demolish it or something

will be reserved for blackmail in his later years!

Priceless,

 I caught him with my camera just as he decided to throw his hands down

face bright red and demand he get his way!

 Hope you are getting into the holiday spirit....

Can't wait to share pics of my Vintage Christmas finds

and our new village scene next week!

Happy Wednesday!