When you move a lot, you always have to find a new spot for your Christmas decorations.
At our first house, we didn't have a whole lot of room for a tree, but we had a great corner for it.
2010
At our second house, we had a whole room for the tree.
2011-2012
And, if you recall, I left it up until March that year (2011-12).
Now, the tree is in an inconvenient place, but I think it looks good. My biggest complaint is that the only place to put it was in front of the shelf with my nativity scene. I didn't want to move the shelf for a month though. When you move often, the last thing you want to do is unnecessarily rearrange wall-decor.
My mother-in-law sent this to me for my birthday last year. I spotted it in Carlisle last Christmas.
I'm a sucker for mini-trees.
I feel like this wreath is too pretty/valuable to put on the outside of our front door. This year, and last, it's hung on the closet door. I made it myself. The ornaments are all from Target and the paper scroll is a 4th grade Christmas ornament I made in 1996-ish.
One of our stockings. I don't have stocking hooks (haven't found ones I like), so I just hang them on curtain rods as decoration.
Snowman gourd. Bought at the Alaska State Fair in 2011.
Mini light-up tree. Bought for $11 at Fred Meyer in 2009 because Scott was deployed and I wanted a tree. It's 2 feet tall. It also served as my classroom tree for 2 years and now I actually keep it out year round because it doesn't exactly scream "this is only a Christmas decoration".
Mini-tree at work. Classroom 2010.
These are my favorite of the yarn wreaths that I made last year. I received the moose pin as a gift from an Alaska friend and figured it looked right at home there.
I've been checking out Hobby Lobby every time we go to Springfield and I found this there. I feel like we need decorations to liven up the walls, but at the same time, clutter is not a friend of mine.
Angi posted a garland tutorial. I had these letters in the closet because I was going to make something with them last year and never did. I painted them bright red and glued them to some ribbon and, much to Scott's displeasure, pounded some nails into the wall. There's probably a more constructionally-sound way to fasten this to the wall, but oh well. My way worked too.
I'd been eyeing this tree every time we've gone into The Cracker Barrel since September. I had a gift card, so I finally gave up and "bought" it for free. I don't know why that was such a hard decision.
My grandma had a similar one, and I've always liked ceramic trees.
This post serves more as a record for me because, as usual, we'll be in a new house next year. Hopefully one we own!
