I'm having such a problem.
For the first time ever, I just don't feel like decorating for Christmas.
I can see a lot of the bloggers have done almost all of their decorating, but I'm not there yet.
That scares me since Thanksgiving is late this year.
I did want to put away the turkeys so those are safely packed up for another year.
About two weeks ago, I went through all my Christmas boxes looking for stuff to purge.
I have small collections each of Dept. 56 houses, putz houses, bottle brush trees, gingerbread men, snowmen, Santas, baby Jesus, sheep, angels and some lodgey Christmas stuff. Obviously I didn't put all this out but even with a few favorites from each collection the house can look very junky, VERY JUNKY!
Last night I was looking at some photos from my last two years of blogging.
I have too much crap!
What I thought looked cute last year looked junky.
Oh some of it did look cute and you saw the good pictures.
I experimented with live greenery from the grocery store and I'm going to be honest. It was a mess.
I decorated too early so it all got too dry.
I think that if I do live greenery again, it needs to be done twice.
All the real pine needles were super sharp once they were dry.
This was my favorite display last year, but I killed the plant and the dog tried to eat the little glass mushroom.
She got it down and left it broken on the floor.
I tried to get another one but they were sold out.
:(
This year I really am going to try to dial it back.
I found some bags of pinecones that I collected at the lake so I'll sprinkle those about.
I ordered a pinecone print off of e-bay. I forgot about it until it came the other day.
I think that is my theme.
Pinecones, natural, and not sheddy.
I know not sheddy isn't really proper English but it is expedient.
It sounds better than "that which does not shed."
Actually "that which does not shed" has a nice ring to it too!
Anyway, I have bought exactly three gifts.
Two of them are stocking stuffers.
I am in trouble!
I'm going to take the advice of my sister this year and keep it simple.
Katie
Linking with,
Common Ground
I can see a lot of the bloggers have done almost all of their decorating, but I'm not there yet.
That scares me since Thanksgiving is late this year.
I did want to put away the turkeys so those are safely packed up for another year.
About two weeks ago, I went through all my Christmas boxes looking for stuff to purge.
I have small collections each of Dept. 56 houses, putz houses, bottle brush trees, gingerbread men, snowmen, Santas, baby Jesus, sheep, angels and some lodgey Christmas stuff. Obviously I didn't put all this out but even with a few favorites from each collection the house can look very junky, VERY JUNKY!
Last night I was looking at some photos from my last two years of blogging.
I have too much crap!
(I hope I don't get in trouble for saying crap on a family friendly blog, but really!)
What I thought looked cute last year looked junky.
Oh some of it did look cute and you saw the good pictures.
I decorated too early so it all got too dry.
I think that if I do live greenery again, it needs to be done twice.
All the real pine needles were super sharp once they were dry.
This was my favorite display last year, but I killed the plant and the dog tried to eat the little glass mushroom.
She got it down and left it broken on the floor.
I tried to get another one but they were sold out.
:(
This year I really am going to try to dial it back.
I found some bags of pinecones that I collected at the lake so I'll sprinkle those about.
I ordered a pinecone print off of e-bay. I forgot about it until it came the other day.
I think that is my theme.
Pinecones, natural, and not sheddy.
I know not sheddy isn't really proper English but it is expedient.
It sounds better than "that which does not shed."
Actually "that which does not shed" has a nice ring to it too!
Anyway, I have bought exactly three gifts.
Two of them are stocking stuffers.
I am in trouble!
I'm going to take the advice of my sister this year and keep it simple.
Katie
Linking with,
Common Ground
