One week to go!
Australia doesn’t do “living”
Christmas trees as a rule so most Aussies have a plastic shrub in their
houses. Last year, our tree looked sort of like
this…
This is very much how the
tree looked the year before too. Unfortunately I can't find a photo of either tree.
Pinterest has a variety of
individualised Christmas trees. There is
something for everyone. I got pinspired
and started pinning a bunch of them in November. Where would all of us slow pokes get our
inspiration (check out 30 days of pinspiration here) if it weren’t for all the super organised people on Pinterest?
Gone are the days of the
traditional tree with a hodge podge of hand-crafted decorations and sad
tinsel. The themed tree of one or two
colours co-ordinating decorations and gift wrap is also a bit old hat. Don’t get me wrong, if that is your
thing, I’m impressed with your level of commitment. It took me 10 years to convince Mum that a
bit of coordinated forethought would result in a beautiful tree standing in the
living room. The great thing is, that
Mum now has so many decorations that she can easily choose a different colour
theme each year without having to go out and purchase new accessories. I’m sure I used to hear the poor tree
groaning under the weight of all that stuff!
This year the BFF and I
decided to go for something a bit different in the tree department.
Our tree looks like this…
At night time it looks
like this…
It was really quite easy
to create. Well, the BFF made it look
easy! She did all the wire beading and bending and twisting. I traced and cut out our paper
decorations. The tree shaped wire is
secured with tape and cut-outs are just stuck to the wall with blu-tac. The cool thing was, we had a different tree than last year and didn’t
spend any extra money. We raided the
craft boxes and our awesome resourcefulness did the rest.
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If you are so slack, that
you don’t have the tree up yet, check out these pins and raid the craft
supplies before you rush out and buy an over-priced twig. These days, anything goes, so don't be afraid to experiment.
Tomorrow... Gifts and Wrapping! :D
Happy Christmas!
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