Up On The Housetop

Up on the housetop,

reindeer pause...

Out jumps good old Santa Claus:

Down through the chimney with lots of toys:

All for the little ones, Christmas joys! 

 (In the top photo, you see one of my favorite little ceramic cottages which was purchased from a Wisconsin antique shop in 2001, and which sits in the window of our sun room and has a light in it at night. The reindeer,  along with the sweet little vintage Santa, and the McCall's magazine from 1966 were recent purchases, and I've had the vintage book of Christmas cards for a while.)

As is the case for nearly everyone, I would imagine - I have been quite busy the last few days.
 I've been working on things like baking - and also this:

Yes, wrapping presents!
We have an old secretary very similar to the one seen above on this vintage cover of American Home magazine, but I don't wrap presents there - I need a much larger work surface than that!
I like the look of this cover, though - it just looks so warm and cozy, and as though the lady-of-the-house has just taken a short break.
She'll get back to it soon enough.......