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My Christmas Chandelier....

What a wonderful time of the year....CHRISTMAS!!! Christmas is my most favorite holiday season!!! It's the time of the year when friends and family gather to celebrate all that's good and true...love , peace, and joy!!! During the Christmas season most people take the time to gather with family...sharing and renewing old and cherished Christmas memories and traditions...and to make brand new memories!!! Friends come together to celebrate ...sharing a meal or maybe just a cup of your famous eggnog or hot cocoa!!! Generosity abounds with the traditional giving of gifts! Christmas merriment can be seen and heard in the shoppes...in the work place...at school...and at home!!! We celebrate with the traditional Christmas decorating...it's just a glorious time of the year!!!
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This year is no different...at Thanksgiving I had the kids carry down all the boxes with the many Christmas decorations that have been stored away upstairs. I'm so thankful for youthful excitement...their little youthful legs don't seem to mind making the many trips back and forth...up and down all the many steps...hehe!!! If it were up to my "old legs", I might just have to decorate the upstairs (since that's where all the many boxes of decorations are stored) and call it good!!! Hehehe...

As I went through the boxes, I had already decided that I wanted to decorate a bit differently this year. You know how easy it is to get in a "rut" when it comes to such things...we find places for certain decorations that we just love and seem to fall into a pattern of doing the same thing year after year. But I'm on a mission to do something different! This past summer our dining room received a "new design"! French Country design! Olive colored walls joined the two red walls (that I decided to leave)...I just love my red dining room and the olive added just the right color combination! So now we have a red and olive green dining room with white furniture...do you hear a "set-up" for Christmas color??? Hehe! One of the new items added to our dining room was the chandelier. It's an old brass chandelier that had been stored away. My husband bought the chandelier from an older gentlemen some time ago...so no telling how old it really is. Since it was the newest addition to the dining room, I couldn't wait to do something special with it for Christmas!!! I've seen many pretty chandeliers all decked out in their Christmas finery....pretty greenery, etc. but I wanted to do something different. This is what I came up with...and for the meantime, I'm satisfied with the end result....what do you think???

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I used white and gold icecycle ornaments and snowflake ornaments! They really sparkle when the light shines on them!!! Here's another photo of our Christmas Chandelier...oh my, you get just a little sneak-peak of the buffet...hehe!!! I'm saving that for tomorrow....
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Well my friends...I hope that you're enjoying the holiday season!!! I wish you the very best Christmas ever!!! Just don't forget the real reason for the season....JESUS!!! No matter how crazy the holidays get...with all of the parties, shopping, and decorating....as fun as they may be....Jesus is the real reason for our celebration!!! Don't forget Him...and then go and have some Christmas fun!!!

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Love ya'll,

Chari