Christmas, especially. We've amassed quite the stock of decor, but sadly last year our 9 foot artificial tree bit the dust. We planned to simply buy a replacement on black Friday, but, as usual, it was more complicated than it first would appear. The majority of the 9 foot trees were not all that visually appealing or too far out of our price range. We decided to buy a pair of 7 foot trees for the first time, and I love the way it allows us to schemer the Christmas cheer throughout the house hold.
Another first, on of our trees has a multicolored light setting. It seems to mostly shine green, blue, and purple, and that is only the beginning of the Dr. Seuss motif that we've got going on.
We've amassed over 400 Christmas ornaments, so we chose to split them up across the 2 trees. The tree in out from room, which is is the window that faces the street, has all our more traditional ornaments with the more classic garland. the traditional fillers, and the vintage star.
And another decorating first; tinsel. Our front room tree just needed a little more oomph, and tinsel adds the sparkle and magic it needed without the added bulk. It's also quite fun to drape over each bough of the tree. Mom told me about how as a kid she found it so be great fun to throw big clumps of tinsel at the tree, only to find later that my grandma has smoothed and separated each strand across the tree.
I think it may be fun to really coat a canvas in glue and then aggressively hurl some tinsel strands at it and see all the fun sparkliness that results.
Our great room tree (the multicolored Seussical one) was looking a little spare at it's core. It needed some fillers, but most of our fillers were used in the front room tree, so we made some according to Aunt Peaches's post, using metallic gold, velvet, and silver sparkle branches. I love peaches, but I must admit that this did take me more that 15 minutes, but it was time well spent, as they look faboulous. If you'd like my super quick instructions (This ins't really a difficult concept);
- Cut branches into smaller peices with wire cutters or sharp chicken scissors
- Dump out pom poms and remove the blue and black ones (may require moral support from a lovely canine)
- Carefully hot glue the remianing pom poms on the end of the branches
- Enjoy the results!
Mom did an extrodinary job decorating our downstairs.
A couple years back we made the pennant. It was super simple. We created a triangle template, cut out triangles from Christmas prints with pinking shears, and sewed between the layers of a quite binding with a fun heart stitch, compliments of a quilting machine. It definatly adds a sort of granny chic feel to our entry.
This pointsetta is joined by 19 others scattered through out our downstairs. We but them for a mere 99 cents a piece on black Friday. Sometimes we keep them alive into May!
They also add a more old-timey feel to our house around this season. We have also discovered that the key to keeping them mess free is to only water once a week as to avoid many dropped leaves. Placing an ice cube in weekly is a great way to insure that the correct amount of water is release correctly.
I helped jazz up our refridgerator with some glitter and bow magnets. Just simple supplies from Micheals with hot glue and magnets. Easy peasy.
And now, in line with the theme of my weekend, the outside decor!
Dad and I are enjoying the trees in our front yard that we've wrapped with lights for the last 2 years. With the variety of colors and they way the trunks twist and turn you can't deny the Dr. Seuss
feel. Mom even whipped out some yard stakes made of various books and shish kebabs. She is very proud of her work.
And that's about it!
I hope that these photos may inspire you in your future Christmas decorating endeavors!
Happy Christmas break to all my fellow students as well.
We've made it through another semester, so maybe celebrate with a little more decorating!
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