Christmas decorations

Yesterday, I started putting up Christmas decorations, which started out ok, I put on some Christmas music, there is snow on the ground, and I was ready to go...but I ended up getting very frustrated and emotional about halfway through, for several reasons, one of being which I thought I needed a few more things this year to add to my Christmas decoration collection, which a lot of it has come from garage sales over the years( I love garage sales!) anyways, so Tom suggested we go shopping to get a few extra things, which I really appreciated, because today was a lot better, because the extra things were the finishing touch, as well as emotionally I was a lot more stable lol...not going to delve into it here, but mostly just the whole "holiday" season, no children, thing...you know, just the same thing it always is...moving on, this is a happy post :)  So...here are the pictures...

The first 3 pictures or so are of the centerpiece on our coffee table in our living room...I already had the wreath, but had something else to hang on the door, so thought of this idea, but needed the pillar candles and the ribbon, and then saw the table runner at a store called Old Time Pottery, and I just loved it, not for Christmas decorations, but it worked out that way, and get this...it was only A DOLLAR!! I know...anyways...moving on :)

(please excuse the dust on the shelf, its a black table, and with construction in our house, nothing stays clean lol )
This is our Nativity set, we had a tiny ceramic one, but we found this at a garage sale, I think for $3 or so, and we like it a lot. :)
This is another garage sale find($2)-Christmas carolers that are hinged together
This is our dining room table, and to some it might not look like much, but this is the first table cloth I have ever owned, we got it last night and i had the rest of the stuff, oh we did replace the pinecones with some new ones that have the wonderful "Christmas" scent to them :)
Our Christmas tree all decorated...
The pearl letters I have metioned before, T and A for Tom and Ashley of course...
2 B's for both babies we have lost...
And how could we forget Gunner... :)
This is our new tree skirt...before we had a white felt one with a Christmas train that went around and played music, but decided to change it up a little this year...
This is a welcome sign for outside, that will go out, but it has been snowing like crazy all day..lol
These next 2 things are in our main floor bathroom, firstly is a snowman kleenex box(another garage sale find)
and just a cute Christmas tree(garage sale find...for 25 cents, crazy i know) lol :)
The cute angel snowman(50 cent garage sale find) with a picture of our cutie pie Gunner :) 
Ok, thats all for now, Tomorrow I will be off to making Christmas cards, hopefully it will go smoothly... hope you all have a great week!