Glimpses Into Christmas Dollhouse

Christmas dollhouse has been a part of the holiday season around here for a long, long time.

Ever since teenage years, dollhouses and miniatures have tugged at my heart.

This fall, a 1970s dollhouse came to light at an estate sale.

My daughter loved it, wanted me to have it, and bought it. 

It became a birthday gift to me from my three local grands. 

The beautiful but definitely falling apart pink Victorian dollhouse got moved out and sold!

Out came the miniature Christmas decorations a couple of weeks ago.

Each grand decorated one bedroom and helped deck the rest of the house, too.

They did a truly awesome job, filled with creativity and artistic prowess.

Today, we give you a glimpse into some of the rooms!  If interested, enjoy!

Merry (Big) Christmas and Merry (Little) Christmas, too!

Gingerbread Smiles

 

As the days until Christmas get shorter, and the things that need doing get longer, it's sometimes hard to keep up the momentum.

It would be great to have the ability to remain as cheerful and carefree as the little gingerbread figurines in this post.

They are adorable.

Sometimes the rush and chaos of the holiday season can weigh heavily on one's heart.

Today is a good day to stop. Slow down.  Think of a baby in a manger. 

Then, concentrate on that baby being a king who would save mankind.

That's reason to smile!

All of these thoughts came as a result of  seeing replicas of a gingerbread boy and girl.

A Christmas Tradition

 

Families everywhere have holiday traditions that enrich the lives of their children.

One tradition in my own family is decorating homemade gingerbread houses.

We have done this for many decades.

                                                                                                                                                               Some years there was hardly any money for candies to put onto the house but we somehow managed to scrape enough together to do it.

The dollar stores have always been  good places to find small bags of candy that would enable us to have a good variety.

If candies are left from Halloween, we use those, too.

Last year, there was not enough time to make the houses from scratch so we bought a gingerbread kit in a box. 

It turned out to be a real disaster and made the local grands yearn for the homemade variety.

This year, when my newly teenage granddaughter said, "Grandma, can we decorate a gingerbread house this year?,"  my heart said "Yes, yes, yes."

So dough for two houses was mixed, spread, baked, and cut into shapes of roofs, sides, fronts and backs of houses.

The kids had a blast decorating the gingerbread creations. 

Once I'm gone from this earth, the kids will surely remember decorating gingerbread houses with Grammie!

Third Sunday of Advent

We are coming closer and closer to Christmas.

This is the third Sunday of Advent for Christians.

It means we light the pink candle on the advent wreath.

The little child's manger scene, shown in this post, is absolutely adorable. 

When a button on the bottom is pushed, a light comes on and shines down on the whole scene with the Baby Jesus.

Also, a child's voice begins to tell the story of the Nativity.

While many manger scenes have made the cut to keep for now, this one is definitely one of my favorites.

You are one of my favorites, too!

Decorating Kitchen Knick Knack Cubby

The kitchen knick knack cubby is a top notch favorite thing to decorate for Christmas.

There are many little decorations in each cubby.

The reindeer bears who hang out on the top, purchased in Tucson, Arizona,  have been faves for a couple of decades.

It's a guarantee that some little itsy bitsy decoration is bound to be added each Christmas season.

It's just so much fun to decorate the cubbies.

It's also a perfect holiday decorating solution to someone who has very little space to feature "big" decorations.

Here comes a Happy Merry (Little) Christmas to All!