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Of Christmas trees and decorations
Dec. 2nd, 2006 02:25 pmSo I'm thinking about Christmas decorations. We are usually not the type to do it. And we're definitely not going to be doing fancy outdoor lights or anything. But since we are staying home this Christmas, and Maggie is SO fascinated by decorations at this age, I'm thinking it'd be nice to do a bit more than we usually do. Which is, honestly, nothing - we do have a little bitty fiber optic artificial tree we've used a couple of times, with just a few ornaments, but that's it.
We're getting a wreath, probably for the front door. Inside of the front door - because it's one of those marvelous balsam ones that smell so good, and I want us to enjoy the smell.
I'm thinking about a tree. We could put a real tree in the kitchen bay window area, maybe put down an old area rug that's in the garage from the old house so we could sit in front of it on Christmas morning without being on the cold hard tile. But rather than get a cut tree, that's been dead for weeks and sheds needles and dries out and is a fire hazard, I was thinking maybe we get a live fir of some kind, actually in a pot, and we can either set it outside in the pot come spring, or even yank out Dooley the dead white oak tree from the backyard and plant the evergreen instead. Wouldn't be such a fire hazard and mess, and hey, ecologically nicer and all that. I've been searching about online trying to find out more, and called Calloways, a local nursery. Sounds like they have some. I'm not sure how much cheaper it would be to get a dead one, but this sounds more agreeable. We may go out later on an Expotition to check them out - although taking me out shopping is a bit fraught these days, the littlest trip wipes me out so badly.
Anybody have any particular advice on live trees in pots or where to go or anything like that?
Then I need to think about decorations. I'm not even sure if I *have* a tree skirt. And we'd want ornaments and lights and such. I knew just where to go for that sort of thing in the Redondo Beach area in California, I'm not sure where to go for nice stuff here. Any suggestions, o local people? One advantage of probably getting a smallish live tree (as I'm sure a BIG one would be really expensive), we'd need less ornaments...
I've also thought about a creche or nativity set - when I was a kid, we had a really cool one, wooden blockish pieces that all fit together like a puzzle into this wooden case, that when the pieces were taken out, you stood it up and it was the stable in the background. That's something that it wouldn't be a problem if the little ones got hold of a piece. Never seen anything like it since then, though.
I am going to have to curb my enthusiasm a bit, as anything that involves me having to go out and run around shopping isn't going to work well. My Christmas shopping this year is going to be almost exclusively online, I just can't manage going to stores.
We're getting a wreath, probably for the front door. Inside of the front door - because it's one of those marvelous balsam ones that smell so good, and I want us to enjoy the smell.
I'm thinking about a tree. We could put a real tree in the kitchen bay window area, maybe put down an old area rug that's in the garage from the old house so we could sit in front of it on Christmas morning without being on the cold hard tile. But rather than get a cut tree, that's been dead for weeks and sheds needles and dries out and is a fire hazard, I was thinking maybe we get a live fir of some kind, actually in a pot, and we can either set it outside in the pot come spring, or even yank out Dooley the dead white oak tree from the backyard and plant the evergreen instead. Wouldn't be such a fire hazard and mess, and hey, ecologically nicer and all that. I've been searching about online trying to find out more, and called Calloways, a local nursery. Sounds like they have some. I'm not sure how much cheaper it would be to get a dead one, but this sounds more agreeable. We may go out later on an Expotition to check them out - although taking me out shopping is a bit fraught these days, the littlest trip wipes me out so badly.
Anybody have any particular advice on live trees in pots or where to go or anything like that?
Then I need to think about decorations. I'm not even sure if I *have* a tree skirt. And we'd want ornaments and lights and such. I knew just where to go for that sort of thing in the Redondo Beach area in California, I'm not sure where to go for nice stuff here. Any suggestions, o local people? One advantage of probably getting a smallish live tree (as I'm sure a BIG one would be really expensive), we'd need less ornaments...
I've also thought about a creche or nativity set - when I was a kid, we had a really cool one, wooden blockish pieces that all fit together like a puzzle into this wooden case, that when the pieces were taken out, you stood it up and it was the stable in the background. That's something that it wouldn't be a problem if the little ones got hold of a piece. Never seen anything like it since then, though.
I am going to have to curb my enthusiasm a bit, as anything that involves me having to go out and run around shopping isn't going to work well. My Christmas shopping this year is going to be almost exclusively online, I just can't manage going to stores.
