Tea-themed tree #1 is up!

I know some of you probably have the whole house decorated for Christmas by now, but I don't. It takes me a while to ease into Christmas decorating after Thanksgiving, and I've been as late as December 15 in putting up a tree. This weekend, I started going through some of my thrifted finds of the past year and rediscovered a whole new tree that I purchased five months ago at my friend Maxine's moving sale.

She sold me the metal tabletop tree and 25 tea-themed ornaments for $20, and that's probably the best $20 I spent all year.

Some of the ornaments have a cloisonné look, like this pretty blue one with Christmas trees on it.

Lots of the ornaments are Mary Engelbreit designs, and I don't believe any of these are duplicates of other Mary Engelbreits I've collected over the years.

Maxine even included two tiny little English chintz teapots with removable lids, and while they're not ornies themselves, I decided to display them around the base, just as she did.

I'm sure I'll add a few more things to this display to fill it out, but first up was a Santa picture I found on clearance at Kroger, of all places, after Christmas a few years back. So who's finished decorating already? I hope at least some of you are like me and just getting started!