nearly there …

 

Presents wrapped.  Cards written and posted.  Tree decorated.  Now ~ what’s left to do.  Oh yes ~ the mantle piece.

Husband thinks it looks Victorian – where’s Charles Dickens when you need him?

“I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol