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Decorating

December 10, 2009 at 5:51 pm by Claudia

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree… today we went tree shopping and brought home our lovely Noble Fir. We’re letting the branches settle overnight and tomorrow we will decorate. In the meantime, I’ve been doing a little decorating in other parts of the house.

The simplest decoration: some pine cones next to the parakeet lamp.

The garland on the stairway.

Santa on the spinet desk.

Oh, and this handsome guy. My favorite decoration. I wanted to share this photo of my husband that I took for his website. As you know he is a singer/songwriter as well as an actor. I took a bunch of shots of him the other day. We used the porch as our setting. Just in the nick of time – the next day, this particular area of the porch was covered in snow!

The Plow & the Wreaths

December 9, 2009 at 3:28 pm by Claudia

I like to keep things positive here…not complain too much…so I will just let this photo tell you what my day has been like.

Enough said. Okay, on to prettier things. The wreaths have been hung and I really love them.

The view has changed since I took this – the ground is totally covered in snow.

I thank you, Big Lots! No Christmas tree today, the snow has kept us shoveling until mid afternoon and now we are plumb tuckered out. I did put up our outdoor lights – just white lights that we drape between the posts on the porch. Simple, but effective. I also dragged in the Christmas ornament bins from the shed.

So, hopefully, tomorrow we get the tree and decorate on Friday.

Talk to you soon!

I’ll have a Stack of Wreaths, Please

December 8, 2009 at 4:45 pm by Claudia

Bottlebrush anything for Christmas and I’m there. Look what I found today! Several weeks ago, Dawn of The Gahan Girls wrote about finding these wreaths at Big Lots. Today I happened to drive by the one Big Lots I know of around here, so I ran into the store. After much scrounging around, I found a total of 4 of these (all in different display areas, I might add.) I really thought there was very little hope there would still be some available. I think I snagged the last 4. Aren’t they pretty?