it's not perfect, but it's up.

I put my Christmas tree up. My boyfriend wanted me to get a real tree (so maybe next year) but the artificial one was at my Dad's and FREE. It has a ton of lights and Julian helped me put candy canes all over (cheap ornaments, lol). I draped some upholstery fabric with red, yellow, and orange squares on it (it is hard to see) around the base as a tree skirt and stole some of my great-grandmother's glass balls from my Dads for the old world nostalgia a tree has to have. Next--I threw fabric in the dryer this morning to get started on home-made stalkings. They won't be as intricate or amazing as Mrs. Kelly's--but it's a start.

Merry Christmas!