My Junior Choir is on the right of our piano with this CHARMING traveler on the left side.. yep, the Charmer is new from MOM too, I just love this one. Wish you could see the details better on his luggage!

        This is my setting outside of the SweetShoppe. I was able to add the shovel, the mailbox, fellow with snowshoes as my packages came, THANKS again MOM (smiles) The details on that bike are amazing .. Bill picked that up for me at Bronners one year. :) Okay moving on into our dining room/schoolroom...

        Now this one is pretty special .. and different from the rest, untill now you have been seeing all my outdoor Carolers. This grouping here are all inside. This started the year my MOM bought me the piano and girl, it is suppose to be from the "Louisa May Alcott" series.

        If you look closely you can see it is one big happy family all together for the holidays gathering for a group picture. The ladies sitting in chairs I received on Mother's Day 2 years in a row, the woman standing holding the child up by its hands I got when I became a Grandmother this year! Behind the piano you can see the Teacher.. That I got when I started home schooling again this year, just to her right you can see the photographer. Took me 3 days to get the set below. It is the Nutcracker and a music box... LOVE IT!

        Now, last but not least came my biggest challenge of MOM's blessings.....

        
This fellow here is dubbed the Peddler. His horse is really something, I just could not for the life of me find the right place this year so for now he is stationed on my fireplace hearth... waiting for his stable to be built I guess. Not to worry though Mom, I have plans for next year already!

        And here is my mantle in completion.... those stockings? YEP you guessed it! As my children came MOM would make a stocking for their first Christmas. This year she made one for her first Great Granddaughter, My sweetie, Gillian ;) Thanks MOM, I love you!