Christmas on Beachway

Hey Campers, long time no post.  I decided it was time to show you our new house all dolled up for xmas.  Below you can see the fireplace with our odd metal creche.  M's Mom gave us the 3 wise men two years ago, and we found  Mary, Joseph and the Angel at Pier 1 this year.  M got the red grasses and the vases from Marshalls.  It looks great in the daytime.

Below is our tree,  not a great picture, but not a great camera either.  We decided to put it next to the door to the deck, and it works fairly well there.

This is the dining room, over exposed but you get the idea.  In the center is a wire ornament tree that I found to display our White House ornament collection, M and I have one for every year we've been together, so we have 15 total.  This tree will hold 40 ornaments, so we'll have to split up after that.  Oh well.

Here's the kitchet space, we don't have any wall space in the kitchen by design...every square inch is used!  We hung those bows on the door pulls to make things more festive.

Heres' the kitchen from the dining room.  I have been pleasantly surprised at how spacious the kitchen feels.  It's got plenty of room for everything!

Here's one of th display nooks, with a creche we found in Old Town Alexandria a few years ago.  We will need to look for things to display in these nooks that are more in scale with the space.

This is down stairs in the den, we fixed up the mantel downstairs with shiny things.

Here's the wider view.    M and I got that small artificial tree years ago to display the White House ornaments, but they got 'lost' on the tree.  We're just using it for a little sparkle down there now, and it works pretty well!

Anyway. There you have it!

Merry Christmas EVERYONE!

S'all for now

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