I am not much on seasonal decorating, mainly because I hate to take it all down and put it away but maybe that’s starting to change. I did order some Halloween decorations this year and I have them out but I need so much more to even make it look like I decorated minimally but then . . if I get more . . that’s more stuff to put away.
When I lived in Louisiana and I was way more into decorating, I had a closet under the stairs and I had nails up (before 3M Command hooks). I hung all the hanging stuff in there and had everything in order – Mardi Gras, then Easter, then July 4 . . and so on. I’d take stuff down, put it back up in the closet and grab the next stuff. I have a closet under the stairs here and I could do that same thing. I could even stack Rubbermaid type totes in there and write on them which holiday they went with. Maybe I’ll do better . . maybe not. We’ll see.
But, the charts that came in today are all Christmas charts.
This one is Cranberry Christmas by Artful Offerings.
This one is Silent Night by Crocette a gogo’.
This one is Snow in Love by Cottage Garden Samplers.
This one is Christmas Delivery by Cottage Garden Samplers.
The funny thing is that I decided to have a cardinal wall in my breakfast room. Our town’s mascot is the cardinal. So many charts have red birds on them and I found myself looking at some of them and debating if it was a cardinal, a weird bird, or what so I decided any red bird can have a home on my cardinal wall. Then I was talking to Denise and she’s going to have a red bird wall too. We hadn’t talked about together but one day she said something like “This can go on my redbird wall!” What? I’m going to have a redbird wall too. Denise’s will probably be filled before my first piece is stitched.
Anyway . . after these charts came, I wrote Denise and told her that two of these charts have redbirds but then when I started looking, I said “No! All four of them have redbirds.”
I won’t keep Christmas pieces out all year but they can reside in my breakfast room during the holidays.
If I could get Snow in Love and Cranberry Christmas done for next year, I would be so, so happy.
Karen says
Can you believe I ordered three of the four plus one other???? Of course you can. Denise enables you, or vice versa, and you enable me. Now if I could just figure out how to add 24 more hours to my day I might actually get some of these done!
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Yes, please try to figure out how to add more hours to your day and then share it with me.
Joyce says
All of your Christmas charts make me smile!
Verna says
You’ve inspired me to get back into cross stitch! I just bought a Christmas chart and hope to have it done by Christmas–we’ll see if that actually happens. (There’s even a red bird on it!)
Kim Webb says
I just received the two charts from Cottage Garden on Saturday. I loved them both and ordered them as soon as I saw the as a preorder. I may also have a chart and thread pack coming from Russia for a certain SAL starting on Christmas Eve. There must be a red bird somewhere in that one also.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Two red birds – right near Santa’s feet as I recall.
Sheryl says
…I kept the Christmas sampler I did years ago on display year round. I no longer have it. I gave it our dear neiced Lacey who loves everything Christmas.
Nelle Coursey says
These are all beautiful! I know you will enjoy them for a long time to come. I think having Addie there helps get you motivated to put out decorations. Christmas should be a lot of fun this year!