Under a Blue Moon

I have a confession to make. 

I haven't put up a big Christmas tree for the past two years.  Our boys live about 2 1/2 hours away and normally they would drive up together on Christmas Eve but this year and last they have had to work late on Christmas Eve.  So we decided they would just stay at my Dad's and we would meet up them first thing Christmas morning and we would do our celebration there.  I think it is fun for my Dad to have the commotion in the morning.  

Putting up a big tree seemed like a lot of effort for just the two of us (not the best attitude, I realize) so my pretty ornaments, collected over the years, lay snug in their tissue beds up in the attic. 

This year, however, I decided to do a little faux, themed tree.  I went to Michael's on a day when they were practically giving away their pre-lit trees and found a 4 1/2 foot tree in a pot that I thought would work nicely on the round table in the living room.

I went through my ornaments (man am I ever impressed with myself at how well I pack them up after the holidays.  Usually by then I'm ready to ball everything up in a sheet and shove it in the back of a closet) and pulled out all the sparkly white ones and all the bird ornaments I've collected over the past few years. 

I like the effect.  It's a nice touch of sparkle and light and the all white look is soothing to me.  

One thing I didn't realize when I bought the tree is that is has a fine dusting of glitter on the branches.  Didn't realize it until Rick had pulled it out of the box and was standing in a swirl of glitter drifting down upon him.  Now he is decorated and ready for the holidays.
 

 

 
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• I saw this genius idea on another blog – carry these little portable flats in your evening bag and when you cannot stand your fancy 4" heels one more second you can slip into them.
• LOVE this necklace.  Why are Alice in Wonderland inspired things so appealing?
• I can't understand a single word on this blog – Lilla Blanka – but her images are so soothing and lovely. 
• A lovely place setting idea.  The little Christmasy house is so sweet.
• A gift idea that for the person that has everything – A Kiva GC – The gift of helping someone else.

Have a Happy Friday Everyone!

  

My PC is on the road to recovery.  It's not 100% yet but we've avoided last rites for the moment. 

I am a voracious blog reader and I check in with my Google Reader half a dozen times a day.  So it was kind of fun, after being offline for a few days, to log in and see 50 blog entries I needed to catch up with. 

Since I wasn't wiling away the hours on the internet I did manage to do a little decorating.

My benefactress gave me an assortment of vintage ornaments and I fashioned them into a wreath.  The pictures aren't really showing it but I lightly sprayed a green, faux wreath with white paint and then sprayed it with silver glitter to give it a frosty appearance.  But in the pictures it is reading grey. 

Speaking of frosty we had snow!  And I missed it!  I was down at my Dad's and of course the one time this decade it decides to snow I am not at home.  All I got was iced over windows that I had to scrape off with a credit card.  We are not equipped for the cold here.  I just saw a guy driving down the street with his head stuck out the window so he could see.  I should have told him the credit card trick.

More decorating to come this weekend.  I bought a little pre-lit tree for the table in the living room (Hi Rick!) and I'm going to set it up this week.  I'm thinking of a bird theme….

  

My PC issues have been brutal and I don't have access to any of my photo editing software, haven't been able to load pictures and basically have been just limping along with it.  I hope to have everything fixed and be back in operation by tomorrow night.

Thanks for haning in there with me.