Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree

Today’s high: Making ornaments and decorating the Christmas Tree. Enjoying the crisp air and beautiful day.

Today’s low: That’s hard. Nothing comes to mind, really. I guess rude people in the store. Some people just don’t realize they are not the only ones who exist.

When I was at Target today, I saw a tree-topper that I really liked.

(For some reason, I have recently fallen in love with the color red) It wasn’t very expensive, but it was a little damaged, so I asked if I could get a discount. At first she said that she could give me 10% off, which I would have been perfectly happy with. But I eventually got 25% off. So, at that point, I had a tree-topper, but nothing else to decorate my tree with except for lights. Oh, and I had no tree. So, I went and bought a tree. Yes, a real live tree.

In my family, we all have our own Christmas ornaments from when we were growing up. And the deal has always been that we get them once we have our own house, or have established ourselves outside of my mom’s house. But none of us are married, and so we always still have Christmas at my mom’s house. And none of us have really had a Christmas tree outside of her house. So, I could get those ornaments and decorate my tree with those. Which I probably will.

But, until then, I decided to go with the star theme of my tree-topper, and spent the evening making my own ornaments.

I bought a bag of wooden star shapes, painted them red or outlined them in red and hung them with raffia.

Then I found some wire in my craft box, and made some star shapes, which I then wrapped in raffia or in more wire.

And here is the (half-finished) product. I still have more ornaments to finish. I love Christmas.