Christmas Decorating

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… well, sort of. We have the lights. We have the tree. We’re missing the snow.

Maybe that’s okay for now.

Speaking of the tree, we went old fashioned Christmas this year, and cut one down from my Dad’s place:

In it’s natural habitat

The great tree slayer

But I had Griswold syndrome (no, no squirrels) because it looked LOTS smaller outside than inside. We had to chop well over a foot off of it.

Trimming the bottom old-tyme style

And it’s still taaaaaallllllll.

Yep. Over eight foot.

But it makes up for height by sparse-ness. I tell myself that this is what good old fashioned Christmas trees looked like back in the old-tymie days (if I’m wrong, don’t tell me), and so try to embrace the retro. Mainly we got it because a) it was free and b) Dad is going to cut it down this summer if it was still standing, so it seemed to me it should die for something if it has to die either way.

And now for a fun gallery of my decorations.

spray snow

all decorated

doesn’t that look nice with a grandfather clock?

wreath

colored lights

cool poinsettia

awesome Avon soap people

last year’s poinsettia

so I’m not very good at spray snow

putting the angel up

cats in the sun

wreath

this years floral arangement

nautical but christmassy

Noel

the kitchen

socks on the stairs

candles

they play jingle bells!

the window

wreath!

the new poinsettia

on the backdoor

the tiny tree in the kitchen

pretty!

dining room

old fashioned goodness

The first presents

Wasn’t that exciting?

Have a christmas-sy kind of day!

Jo 🙂