Oh yea, I have a blog! Unfortunately I've chosen to concentrate on work for the past few months. I've left little time for exercise, cooking, crafting, and blogging. Well, really that's just an excuse and that is changing... I while I'm not a fan of the new year's resolution, I suppose that mine is to choose myself over my work. I've signed up for a beginner yoga class that starts in January. I'm very excited for that! There is a great little nook (really a big room) in the basement for quilting. Enough of that for now, I'm posting about Christmas today.
This year I decided to get a Christmas tree. We live in a house with a huge living room, so we just had to do it. I wasn't quite sure where the tree would come from until one day I went for a walk in the woods... I was with my aunts and uncle, who funny enough had a hand saw with him. So I got to thinking that it would be cool to have a small tree for free! We started looking for a good one. I spent the hour long walk in the woods looking for just the right tree. I found one that I really liked, but my uncle said it wasn't the right kind of tree. (I think it was a hemlock.) He said I needed a spruce or balsam because those are the ones that smell so much. So he found this little guy off the trail a bit. It was a pretty cool experience.
What this tree lacks in branches, it certainly makes up for in character. :) I brought it home and thankfully had a tree stand that just barely fit the trunk. (Any smaller and it wouldn't have fit.) Last year I bought some LED Christmas lights at the end of the season sale. I was so excited to use them this year. Yea, until I got them on this tree. They were so heavy and too long. Previously, I didn't understand why people think of putting up the Christmas tree as such a chore. After I spending the time to place the lights just right and dismantle it again 5 minutes later, I started to understand. For a minute I considered just having the undecorated tree in the house. Nevertheless, I pushed forward. I had a tiny string of smaller lights which was sufficient. I decided that this was not the kind of tree to support any ornaments so I took out some dried hydrangea blossoms and dried leaves. (Yes, I just happened to have some literally hanging around.) I thought that they filled in some of the empty space. I added beaded garland borrowed from my parents and fake poinsettia blossoms. And voila! I didn't spend a single cent on this tree and it just has so much character! (It is ok to laugh at my tree. Sometimes I laugh at it. This is most definitely is a tree that Charlie Brown would be proud to have.)
What I learned from this tree:
- Things that aren't perfect have character, but with all that character they become perfect.
- Natural stuff looks awesome on Christmas trees! (I'm thinking of drying a lot of flowers next year to put on my next tree. I might even dry some orange slices.)
- Whenever I go to a Christmas tree lot, it will be sooooooo easy to find a tree!
Lately I've found myself searching the sides of the highway to and from work for nice looking Christmas trees. I spotted some beautiful ones on the way home to my parent's house yesterday. It feels a bit red-neck to admit that. I guess it isn't really red-neck to look, just to pull over and cut it down. Right?! While I'm on the subject, I'd like to add that I think what I did was quaint, most definitely not red-neck.
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