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Simple Christmas or Simply Me

Minimal decorating for Christmas was on tap for 2017.  I planned to do a tree and nothing more.  Let's face it, getting the tree from the basement is a pretty big deal.  Getting ornaments from the third floor is another big deal and requires more than one trip as did the tree itself.  So that's what I did. I settled on black and gold as the theme for my silver tree this year. That included the wrapping for presents too. My grandsons got pretty excited when they saw all the wrapped presents until they were reminded that Grandma wraps empty boxes. I felt good having my decorating finished early but then I realized I should probably take the bright orange and yellow leaves off the front door and replace them with something more seasonal. No big deal. Reflections are always a problem when trying to photograph this door. I tried one last time.  This time I got the radiator inside the house, the storm door I'm holding open, the mail carrier and the house a

Tree Skirt

Normally when you hear "tree skirt" you think of something that covers the base of the Christmas tree and offers a nice background for the presents, something like this.  Another way to think of it is a project that has been on my back burner for a very long time.  It's one of those Pinterest ideas that caught my attention and actually hung in there.  Maybe because I have pinned a few pictures to a board dedicated to this very idea. media-cache-ecO.pinimg.com This is pretty glamorous, but the bodice on my form needs to be fully covered.   facebook.com Love this one too and I might have been able to pull it off...but I didn't want to add the extra work of flocking the branches on my first try at this. mannequinmadness.com I'm a fan of bright colors but I ended up going for a more subdued look. You can get more ideas from my Pinterest board labeled Dress Form .   I have posted about my dress form before and you can see that po