In This Crazy Life...

I added a few snowmen outside by the tree. I still want to get burlap for a tree skirt, but haven't made it to Hobby Lobby.   Just a few of the things I put outside. I added the soldiers. I have the third one by the front door.   I even made an arrangement for our bathroom. The arrangement for the dining room table and some other things. Closeup of the table arrangement.   All I have left to do is the mantle, but I will need to get more cedar branches when I go home for Thanksgiving.

I've been itching to put up my Christmas Trees for over a week. Kev thinks I should always wait until after Thanksgiving  and I usually do. However, now that I have three trees to put up and decorate and a much larger to space, I need more than a weekend to get everything done. Also, Thanksgiving is the last weekend of the month and that would only leave me four weeks to enjoy them.  When we were cleaning out my grandmother's attic, I took lots of her ornaments. There was also an extra tree that no one wanted. Since it already had pine cones on it, I used in on the back porch. I spent Sunday collecting pine and pine cones from the yard and making these ornaments.   I bought burlap ribbon and used raffia I already had. Many years ago a teacher friend of mine brought me three huge pine cones from the California Giant Aspen trees. I used those for the topper. I still need a larger piece of burlap for the tree skirt. I love the fact that I can see it through the window...