The Magic of Christmas

Glad Tidings in St. Peter's
One of the beautiful Decorative Santas at Glad Tidings
Lynda Moffatt of the IWK, Nancy Clannon and Butch Martin from Glad Tidings


The Glad Tiding's Christmas Shoppe's Christmas Open House drew many visitors to the St. Peter's area on Saturday. I dropped in to pay a call and see if Santa was at home, but I must have just missed him. It makes me feel like a child again as I walk through the beautifully decorated rooms all decked out for Christmas. It was difficult to decide which of the Christmas trees was my favorite, I narrowed it down to three, there was the beautiful traditional tree in the living room and the more whimsical tree in Marion's daughter's room, and the very different wine tree in the showroom. They were all so gorgeous.

I loved the beautifully hung garland around the mantles and the traditional centerpieces on the tables, and buffets, and the display of Christmas ornaments along the ceiling ledges add such a warm touch to the bedrooms. I can just imagine a child snuggling down to wait for Santa on Christmas Eve and waking on Christmas morning, the decorative life size Sants standing by the tree, the nutcracker and snowman soldier standing by the window, what magical moment that would be, talk about visions of sugar plums, definitely a childs dream come through.

And the variety of Christmas ornaments on hand just takes my breath away; The beautiful victorian carollors, the nativity scenes, the angels and the beautiful selection of Santas and Mrs Claus, the musicial sking rings and delicate candle holders. And the wide selection of ornaments for on the tree, from the traditional, to the delicate, to whimsical. And the color selections are perfect for the folks who are not just doing the red, green and gold mottif, but wanting to creat their own style of tree, you can hang pink, silver, mauve tree balls and bangles, frogs to angels, flowers to bows, Santas of traditional stance to a motorcycle Santa, with souvenir decorations for your first child, grandchild or first year of marriage. Marion MacLeod-Stone, owner of Glad Tidings, has it all.

This year Glad Tidings donated the silver collection admission to two great causes. The open house ran for three weekends with the first and third weekend funds raised going to the local foodbank with funds raised during the second weekend going to the IWK Childrens Hospital. Lynda Moffatt from the IWK was on hand at the open house to witness the Christmas Spirit first hand.

Marion's Annual Christmas Open House definitely sets the spirit for the Christmas season in St. Peter's.