It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

So today we tackled Christmas decorating. We still have more to do, including most of the outside stuff, but we did get the tree up and several indoor things accomplished. Megan was very excited about the Christmas decorating. After Daddy got the tree put together, she did the first attempt on decorating. We giggled a bit because of how she put on the ornaments. I rather expected them to all be low on the tree (at her height) which they were, but she also put most of them on the same branches, creating this densely decorated area (bottom left)

A close up of the decorating

Then Daddy helped her spread them out a little. Megan used the step ladder to put some higher, and then she and Daddy put the angel on the tree. After they finished, she stopped me and told me to go get the camera and take this picture (of her behind Daddy on the stool). I thought it was really funny as I didn't even have the camera at that time! So here is Megan's pose.

A few views of the mostly finished project in the living room

And "...the stockings were hung by the chimney with care..."

And just a quick view of our bar project, which I never posted. Last year (maybe 1-1/2 years ago!) we bought a flat screen TV with the goal of moving it out of the TV area and converting that area to a bar. It took about 10 months to get the TV mounted on the wall, and then several more months before we got the shelves out, and the stemware holders painted and installed. We put the wine refrigerator from my Dad there, and got all of the liquor moved out of the kitchen freeing up some much needed kitchen cabinets. We also installed a hanging pot rack in the kitchen and we have more kitchen cabinet space than we have had in a while (but area already managing to fill it)

With the new bar, it seems like Santa could stop off for a sip after his cookies and milk.........