Mom is helping me move furniture and yes we are doing this on a Sunday. Eric and I had already put the tree up, but there wasn't very much room to walk between it and the couch, so my interior decorator (Mom) helped me figure out what to do with the couches.
This is the tree. It is a pre-lit with 400 white lights, plus I made Eric cram 700 colored lights on it. We call it the beacon. It looks fantastic from outside. We put the tree up on a Friday and we didn't get around to putting the decorations on it until Monday. All it had was lights on it. We were going to decorate it Saturday, but we were sidetracked by Kristin. It just wouldn't be a Thanksgiving weekend if Eric didn't have to go over and put Christmas lights up on Kristin's house. Kurt had actually done some, but of course he didn't finish. Their new house roof line is much friendlier than their old one and Eric didn't feel like he was going to fall off of the roof while he was putting the lights on. He did get scared when he went to get off of the roof though. There was quite a distance between his feet and the ladder. Kaitlyn had to guide his feet onto the ladder. I have never seen him scared of anything before, but he was scared. He is not afraid of heights and shimmying right to the end of the roof, but something about dangling his feet off of the edge was scary. He survived though. We also helped Kristin put her Christmas tree up and her tree looks very beautiful. I don't have pictures, but maybe she could post some on her blog.
This is what happens when we let Grandma loose with Christmas lights.
These pictures I took, not Jimmy. I am so thankful for my beautiful Front room (Celestial room or the Useless room) to put my Christmas decorations in. One of my obsessions in house hunting was having a front room window that you could see a Christmas tree in.
This is my Santa Crosstitch that took me 5 years to finish and I actually have room to hang it up.
A nativity set.
Here is my beautiful tree.
2 comments:
You have much more Christmas spirit than I do! I don't know what my problem is this year but I'm just being a grumpy head about putting decorations up. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I don't really have very many decorations and I'm sick of the few decorations that I do have. Plus we don't have any shelves or a fireplace mantel to display anything on...bah humbug!!
Your cross stitch is AWESOME! I used to cross stitch, but I haven't done it in years, so I can really appreciate the time that went into your santa.
You didn't put a leg lamp in front of your picture window??? Your beacon is pretty, though, with all it's lights, candy canes, and such. And I agree that cross stitch is beautiful!!! I remember you working on it.
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