I knew that weird weather was on it’s way. By the middle of the week I knew it was headed this way, and I hadn’t put up the outdoor decorations yet. Thursday, I said to myself, “I better get it done today while it’s still clear outside.” Friday, I thought, “It’s going to be awful tomorrow, I should really get the wreaths and swags up before it RAINS.”
Well, this morning, I brought in three fresh evergreen wreaths from the garage, added bows, and then hung one on the brick wall perpendicular to the front door, one on the back side of the fireplace, facing the foyer, and the last went up on the face of the fireplace. I love the scent, I chose to go with total simplicity this year, and just added burgundy bows to the greens. In the past I’ve decorated them with dried natural plants, like milkweed pods, lotus pods or teasle. Some years I’ve decorated with silk poinsettias. Other years I’ve used branches of silk berries, but this year I went for simple.
I wasn’t going to decorate the carrage lights this year. What I’d really like to do is buy oversized wreaths made of fresh evergreen, add a bow to the bottom of the wreath, and then slip it over the light but I really feel that’s prohibitively expensive. This year my grocery store was selling really lovely swags with a variety of greens for an exceptionally low price, so I bought three of them, and added bows at the top where everything was wired together. Then I wired them to the bottom of the lights.
The last thing I did was to loop a garland of holly across the top of the door, letting the ends hang down to outline the door. I used burgundy bows at the upper corners to hold the garland in place.
Best of all…..I finished before the rain came in! YEA!!!!
I spent some time today crocheting squares for Share A Square, and I worked on the smaller of the two fake Christmas trees. Last night I took off the string on the top third of the tree. Today, I put on a new strand. I plugged the lights in, and darned if only half of the bulbs lit up! I managed to discover a loose bulb and get the new strand going, but now there’s another old strand that is out. I haven’t been able to find the bad bulb, even using my new handy dandy toy. I finally stopped working on it because it was just too frustrating! Reminds me of a conversation that Joy and I have had before…..”…..those darned lights!”
I feel good about what I got done, but I hope to do more tomorrow. There’s still two weeks to Christmas! *G*