It has been years since I've had a live tree, but this one followed me home from Lowe's the other day, with a little urging from my sister. The stockings are vintage. The one of the left was knitted by an aunt 60+ years ago, the one on the right quilted by me sister in 2002. The angel on the tree bears my initials and the year 1941, embroidered on her skirt by my mother in honor of her first-born child's first Christmas.
The tree, by the way, is on a stand comp
