Come on in...

Come on in and see the tree!

Since we are fortunate to live in a wintery, snowy part of the country, it is quite easy to get into the Christmas spirit. I start Christmas music early and love to decorate early as well.

I just thought you might like stopping by to see the tree today...

it's out in our "river room" - a name we gave to our four-season porch addition because from it one can see the river...

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When we added on the river room we purchased an artificial tree because we wanted a nice tall tree to compliment the high ceiling.

The decorations are actually quite simple and Scandinanvian in flavor with lots of sweet straw ornaments (Swedish-me) and candle lights (similar to my Norwegian husband's tree).
I added shiny red balls, some berries and baby's breath and red ribbons.
This year I found these darling little sweaters and added some of them to the tree as well.
They are so cute! Here are a few up close pictures:

And yes, the background on my blog right now is from my tree.

I hope you are enjoying the Christmas season!