Little houses in the grands' room

When my daughter was a girl, our family would paint one building each year during the holidays to add to the collection.  There are about 8 of them total.  Her grandparents joined in the painting too.  My grandgirls saw them in the attic this year and wanted to place them around their room at my house.....it brought back such fond memories that I am going to try this tradtition out on them this year.  We still have one unpainted building.  Now to find paints.....the original little pots we used are a bit dried up!

The third tree I have posted since I began blogging.....

We chose a slightly smaller one this year.  And got it for 19.00!  What a deal, and I love Christmas trees!!!! 

A little tree for the grands...in their room

Got out the little extra ornaments, and let them do it themselves.  They had so much fun, and then we got out the painted village, which I have not displayed in years, and they placed the little houses all over the room complete with kleenex snow....

Old road into Waynesville, NC

As we travelled it, we saw this old apple market which had lots of apples and other goodies.  The folks who worked there had been there for many years.  Don't you love the entrance to it?  Now that took some time....