Last year, we purchased our tree at Home Depot. You can't beat $25 for a seven-foot tree! And this year, we headed back to get another good deal. But we learned our lesson from last year. Instead of picking out the biggest, widest, and tallest tree we could get, we took into consideration the room dimensions. We passed on the rounded, pear-shaped Frasier furs and nabbed a slenderer version. Still seven-feet, but lush and fitting for the room.
While the tree almost slid off the top of my car on the drive back, it made it home safely and into the house with minimal shedding. Since our living room is quite narrow, we decided to place the tree out on our year-round porch. It's much cooler out there, too, which should help prevent it from drying out so fast. After we got home, we lit a fire in the fireplace, warmed up some water for hot chocolate with Khalua, prepared some s'mores, turned on some Christmas tunes from Pandora, and went to work!
Then with the extra lights and extra tree branches, we decorated the mantle. Then the poinsettias were added for some extra color. To finish it off, we hung some stockings and put fake snow under the reindeer sleigh candle contraption.
And then we hung a wreath from the door...
And, last, but not least. We placed a couple poinsettias around the dining room. If only we had an outdoor outlet, we could go crazy with lights on our bushes and trees. Or get a slew of blow up festive lawn ornaments. I think that's where I draw the line :-)
Here's my favorite view where you can see bits of everything. Not sure why the camera is making everything appear fuzzy, either. Not a good sign!
And one last look at the tree through the closed porch door. I hope everyone enjoys the holiday season!
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