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Christmas 2012: Our Tree

Our Tree

We have been waiting a year to see this tree up and decorated. For those who don’t remember we scored a great deal on a tree after Christmas. Which was perfect because our previous $30 tree just wasn’t cutting it anymore.

This one is though. I love how tall and elegant it looks. It fits the size of our room a lot better and is the perfect height for our angel on top.

Thankfully, what you can’t see in the picture above is that the ornaments stop about a foot from the bottom of the tree. Why you ask? Noah. Even though many of them are shatterproof I don’t want her learning to play with the ornaments or to think that the tree is a toy. So I figured for this first year I would try to keep them out of her reach as much as possible. Sometimes the best way to resist temptation is to remove the temptation.

Besides our shatterproof ornaments we have a few special ones decorating the tree as well. Some of them I shared last year, others are our anniversary ornaments (still working on this years, and a few of them are Noah’s.

Like this one that is an imprint of her hand from last year. It was crazy to put her hand up to it and see how much it had grown in one year! And don’t let that little ornament fool you. It was a lot of work to get that handprint. Besides the fact that we were working with a newborn baby we, ML had quite a time getting the mold to do right. It was so frustrating that he even went and complained to Buy Buy Baby about what horrible product it was. Thankfully, we managed to get a decent handprint out of it.

Plus with the left over clay or whatever that stuff was we made a little imprint of Emma’s paw. You know… just in case it grows form year to year.

Here are a few more ornaments that we have dotting the tree.

This one was a wedding gift. I love all the glitter on it.

Here are our shatterproof ornaments or fillers.

This little guy was on Noah’s door decoration at the hospital.

And this one shows her birthdate, weight, and length. Is anyone else baffled at why length is so important at birth?

So there you have it. Our new and improved tree for 2012.

Is anyone else sporting a new tree this year? Or maybe just some new ornaments? What are some of your favorite ornaments on the tree?

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Fall Insomnia

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The other night I just couldn’t fall asleep. Which was really depressing because it had been a long day and I had been looking forward to it all night. Don’t you just hate when that happens?

One of the reasons I couldn’t fall asleep was because my mind was busy running ninety to nothing brainstorming Fall decor ideas as well as a few other creative thoughts. Since, I don’t have anything to show for my thoughts yet I thought it would be fun to take a trip down memory lane and look at what I did last year.

Fall Mantel

I really loved all the height variations and color in this mantel set up. There are several pieces here I plan to use again this year which I guess is one of the things making it a little difficult to get creative with it. I’m up to the challenge though. I’ve already started pulling pieces around the house that I think I might use. Shopping around the house is the best way to go! Sometimes you would be surprised at how much stuff you can find.

According to Pinterest the picture above is the most popular shot of the mantel. Pinners have really gone crazy over it and I appreciate all the love. I have to give part of the credit to my sister though because she made the monogramed picture for us as a house warming gift.

Fall Door

I had so much fun making this monogramed “S” for our door last year. I plan to use it again this year because it’s just too pretty not to.

My thinking is that since I won’t be spending money on the door decor itself I might purchase something for the landing area of our front door. I’m thinking topiaries would look nice but we will just have to wait and see what I find a good deal on.

Fall Table

We didn’t really do a lot in the terms of “Fall Table” decor last year. Some of it might have been because we were only weeks away from the arrival of our precious little girl, Noah.

I did show a glimpse of it in this post where a shared a family favorite soup recipe.

Right now I am still in the dark as to how I want to decorate it.

I’m not sure if I will take advantage of it being a chalk board table top and draw something or layer it with lots of pretty fall garland, carnival glass, and pottery. The layering affect is appealing to me right now but who knows where I will land in a week or two.

With all this planning and dreaming (not while sleeping) it looks like I am going to be as busy as a chipmunk preparing for the winter! ML had to calm my desire the other night to fix soup every night for the next month! Seriously, it’s one of my favorite things about cooler weather. Do you have any special decor plans for the Fall? Or find yourself resisting the urge to make soup nonstop?

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Coloring the Table

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With two weeks left until Easter and Spring officially under way, I decided to decorate my newly restored dining room table.

I have been itching to decorate it with chalk. I went back and forth on what to draw and finally decided on a table runner with the candle stand as the centerpiece. It was so much fun drawing on the table with chalk. It reminded me of my college days… the table was just a big blank canvas. Except for this was a way cheaper than most of my art projects!

The candle stand had been sitting in the center of the table for several days. Wednesday, I decided to sit down and have a little fun. As I was brainstorming, I just decided to start drawing blades of grass sprouting out of the center of the table. One thing led to another and the grass kept going to both ends of the table!

I didn’t get too heavy on the greenery since it is for a Spring table runner. The best part was if I messed up or wanted to change something I could just wipe it down and start over! Oh, if only everything in life could be that simple.

I couldn’t resist pulling out this turquoise pottery to set the table with. It is Crossroads pottery and is made in Mississippi.

And since I’m not used to having a table that’s not completely covered up I made some impromptu place mats by spreading a cloth napkin out. I just love the way they look with the pottery. They could use a little pressing though. Oops!

The candle holder floats around the house for all sorts of decorative displays. And while I am not much for bunny or egg displays, I couldn’t resist hanging these decorative eggs from the branches.

(If you look in the background, you might catch a glimpse of a bunny that did make it out for Easter and another look at the pom-poms over the mantel.)

Michael Luke and I shared a nice dinner (baked falafel, rice, and zucchini) at our Spring table last night.

So because of my new chalkboard table top, I was able to add a little Spring flair to our table for nothing! I think I am going to like this method of decorating! If turning your table top into a chalkboard is out of the question for you, I have seen chalkboard place mats.

What about you? Have you decorated your table for Easter or Spring yet? Do you have a set of dishes you like to use for Spring?

Oh, and for anyone who might be wondering how my week went, I was able to get the house cleaned. Somehow I managed to find a little more free time than I normally have. Good thing because we have family coming into town this weekend! Here’s to hoping the house stays this clean for more than a few days.

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