The Old-Fashioned Christmas Tree ~

"Everyone enjoys the tree enthusiastically. It seems as if we are all in never-never land. We are children again, or at least completely comfortable with our childlikeness I realize that this is exactly what many trees might have looked like a century or more ago ~ not just hung with the old ornaments, but imbued with a spirit of a far different time...

"Gifts are exchanged and admired. Tasha reads "The Night Before Christmas" to us from one of her own versions. It is tremendously comforting to sit around Tasha's tree and have her read this Christmas classic to us, as she did years ago to her children, as her father did even more years ago to her. The past and present seem to merge, as they often do at Corgi Cottage. All the Christmases past become a seamless part of this Christmas."

~ Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author (1918 - 2008) Forever Christmas, 2000