I only brought a shoe box worth of holiday decorations . . .
And, of course, most of the shoe box is filled with Halloween stuff! But, I did pack a few small ornaments and things for Christmas (FW insists on a stocking filled with treats and catnip).
The Christmas tree was a Radio Shack electronic project - required the purchase of a battery operated soldering iron and learning how to do at least 8 billion tiny little solders. I lost 2 'jumpers' somewhere along the line and had to fashion (MacGiver) replacements from scrap. Amazingly, it works! Sort of . . . like all the actual trees I've ever had, some of the tree lights won't light!
Overall, the effect is kind of nice! At home in the rainy Pacific Northwest, I went through a couple hundred tea lights every Dec-Feb - every evening I lit a half dozen or so candles on the mantle over a roaring gas fireplace trying to beat back the dismal dark winter evenings. With all the sun here, I don't have that same need - but the twinkly lights around the window are nice.
The Christmas tree was a Radio Shack electronic project - required the purchase of a battery operated soldering iron and learning how to do at least 8 billion tiny little solders. I lost 2 'jumpers' somewhere along the line and had to fashion (MacGiver) replacements from scrap. Amazingly, it works! Sort of . . . like all the actual trees I've ever had, some of the tree lights won't light!
Overall, the effect is kind of nice! At home in the rainy Pacific Northwest, I went through a couple hundred tea lights every Dec-Feb - every evening I lit a half dozen or so candles on the mantle over a roaring gas fireplace trying to beat back the dismal dark winter evenings. With all the sun here, I don't have that same need - but the twinkly lights around the window are nice.
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| Lily is doing double-duty with her 'elf-on-a-shelf' imitation |
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| Feather Woman playing Christmas Angel |
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| FW playing the part of the Grinch |
The outside solar light string is kind of festive, I think.
So pretty.
ReplyDeleteFun to decorate! Although, the normal green/red Christmas motifs seem out-of-place in the Southwest. I'm thinking of just gold, silver, coppery tones with a bit of red would fit better. I'll have to check out traditional Mexican holiday decorations - maybe they aren't so Kris Kringle.
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