First, I should show you my house all decorated up, right? Well I would, if it was done. We do not have the bottom piece to our tree. Maybe it got gone with the 3 truck and trailer loads of stuff we donated from our old house? Seriously, I do not know how we got so much stuff.
Anyway, yesterday morning at the crack of 8:00 I took the puppy outside for a squat and saw my neighbor donating a huge tree to Salvation Army. If I knew they were getting rid of a tree I would have asked to use it. Alas, I was too late and just a tiny bit too proud and bad breathy to go chase down the Salvation army truck guys. So I did the next best thing, and stopped by the store. Oh boy do they have trees! I got a lovely tree for... $14.99. If you are feeling sad and treeless go to a Salvation Army store. You can turn your frown upside down. I also got wreaths for 1.99 each! I never would have thought to go there had the truck not been out front yesterday morning. So there's my Christmas miracle. (Now, I would still take an any-other-day miracle and be so super glad to see my wedding rings again.)
Anyway, yesterday morning at the crack of 8:00 I took the puppy outside for a squat and saw my neighbor donating a huge tree to Salvation Army. If I knew they were getting rid of a tree I would have asked to use it. Alas, I was too late and just a tiny bit too proud and bad breathy to go chase down the Salvation army truck guys. So I did the next best thing, and stopped by the store. Oh boy do they have trees! I got a lovely tree for... $14.99. If you are feeling sad and treeless go to a Salvation Army store. You can turn your frown upside down. I also got wreaths for 1.99 each! I never would have thought to go there had the truck not been out front yesterday morning. So there's my Christmas miracle. (Now, I would still take an any-other-day miracle and be so super glad to see my wedding rings again.)
Since my house is in a state of upheaval, and items are being moved every few hours/minutes/seconds, depending on the time, what better time to share, right?
Here, in whatever order blogger decides, are some photos of my grand decorating skills. Or whatever.
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| This morning things looked like this |
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| Now it looks like this |
Even if he didn't stop, so got no cookie? Just curious.
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Nice decorating skills!
ReplyDeleteI am a little sad that I have to wait until next Christmas to decorate. We donated our small tree to Goodwill during the move to the apartment though... and since we are hoping to catch a good after Christmas sale on a big, full sized tree... no decorating for us this year. I will just have to live vicariously through everyone that can decorate now!
Oops - thought you just wanted tree pictures. Now I see you just said any Christmas decorations. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteYour tree looks beautiful and so do those floors!! My tree is up and I am just taking pictures tonight, so hopefully I will remember to come back and link up! Thanks for stopping to visit me! Glad you found a tree and I hope you find your rings!
ReplyDeleteOur moving truck arrives Friday and I am having the movers leave all the Christmas stuff upstairs so I can put them out immediately. Actually, got the keys today and we already have some wooden reindeer and candles on the mantel (thank you Costco). I will take pics ASAP.
ReplyDeleteWe're still trying to figure out what decorations we'll even get up in time for Christmas at the new house. We close in about 2 weeks, so I haven't even had the chance to think through it! :O
ReplyDeleteBut we haven't decorated yet! And we have an itty bitty Charlie Brown tree. I gave up on normal size trees when the cat was around 2, she is now 14.
ReplyDeleteI will get a picture eventually though. Your house looks lovely. xox
Thanks for this giveaway. I love seeing other people's Christmas trees, they all look lovely, festive, and colorful!
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Unfortunately our artificial tree is looking a little anemic this year. I think we definitely need a new tree next year.
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ReplyDeleteI don't know how to post a photo here, but I just posted one on Facebook for you. I had to get a table-top tree so Boo Boo can't attack it. Sparkly purple-pink! Although I miss all my ornaments, this one is kind of fun.
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ReplyDeletethanks to our 12 month old and 24 month old the tree is only decorated on the top half :) i love your decorations though.
ReplyDeleteI can never get a good picture of my decorations. The lights always look anemic and once photographed I see every bare spot on my tree. There are some really pretty decorations on this page, though.
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