'Tis The Season...

 

To Procrastinate....

As Some of you might be aware, Dear Readers, there is a Large Task looming in my RL that always consumes a great deal of my focus at this time of year. I am referring to the Annual Christmas Card Drawing which I have managed to make every year for... um... this will be the fortieth year! And being fond of little things with lots of detail... I make an elaborate drawing that summarizes some of the high points of the year. It takes hours and hours over days and weeks... but I LOVE to draw and once it gets going it consumes all my creative focus. I like nothing better than to be able to sit at my drawing table hour after hour adding tiny details...... But, it is not always easy to get the current year organized into a workable idea.... and therefore... procrastination sets in while I dither about possibilities...! And while procrastinating last weekend, I decided to get into the Spirit by putting up all my Christmas Trees! So you can see the Tree has been put up in The Lovely Old Dollhouse, even earlier than usual! Charles is quite pleased with the Tree and Helen agrees that it must be the most beautiful one ever!

 Yes, it is the same tree as always, with nothing new added...!

And over in The Castle, the big tree has been brought in

 and all the candles are lit even though it is not yet night.

 

And because I am also putting up my RL Trees,

 I need to move some of the dollhouses to the Holiday Locations.

The Cloud Palace is once again sitting at my elbow

 while I am stitching my embroidery projects... 

and Blue has even decided that the Christmas Tree Skirt

 I stitched a couple of years ago belongs in the Cloud Palace!

(Well, of Course! )

 

With the Silver Tinsel Tree and the Wishing Stars...

Here you can see a closeup.... 

(I still have to add the "cloud-puff" edging to the skirt!)

And Sally May has the "Same Old Tree" in the same old spot....

So many new things she wanted to try this year...

 but there just hasn't been time!

Her in-laws, Ernie and Blanche 

seem to have gotten used to this tree...

 (it is not at all their idea of a "proper" New England Tree!)

Even Hardwick Hall has a small tree... 

although the lights have not been added, 

and the Hall has been moved to the inaccessible spot for the Holidays...

 to make room for the RL Tree to be put up in my Livingroom.

 

And because I am Procrastinating, Dear Readers,

 there is even a New Little Tree on the block!

 

The idea has been brewing since the beginning of this Project... 

but the particulars are turning out to be whatever I had in my stash....

A Sparkling green bottlebrush Tree in medium size 

With a string of clear mini lights wound around and around.... 

it is impossible to get a good spacing of the lights this way....

 but I am going to call that part of the Charm of this little tree!

So where does it belong....???

In the Dollmaker's Studio... 

also known as Sugarplum Studio!

Can you even see in there.....?

(Halleluliah, the plug outlet works!)

Here, I have turned on some of the other lights...

I know.... it needs to be decorated..... 

hung with gingerbread and little dollies...

 

And do you even remember the Teeny-Tiny

 little version of  The Secret Christmas House?

 

Well... I hate to admit it... 

but that full-size (144th scale) Secret Christmas House

 still has not been completed...!

There are several unfinished steps and pieces I need to add.

Will I get to them This year....?

 Well, you never know, Dear Readers,

 because it is the Season

 for Procrastination in  my House!