Wordless Wednesday

Yankee Candle

If you have an artificial tree and even if you have a real tree, there is nothing better than the smell of Yankee Candle's Christmas Wreath.

I've been burning the Christmas Wreath scent for years and it smells exactly like pine. I have noticed that it's getting harder to find. I hope Yankee is not thinking about discontinuing.

Christmas Greens

I like to decorate with fresh greens at Christmas. I trespass at an "undisclosed location" to cut my greens. Mick has name recognition with the company that owns the property so I cut hoping that if I get caught I can name drop.

Not quite sure if I'm liking this arrangement. Maybe when I light the candle.

This is the first year I've put greens on the kitchen counter & I'm liking how this looks.

Even with all the greens I don't have much of a pine smell. Although, I have a way to fix that.

Wordless Wednesday

Christmas Tree Craft

A Styrofoam cone.

Sprayed with adhesive and then wrapped with yarn.

The Scotch super 77 is amazing. I used it on a couple other projects around the house and it worked better than any other spray glue I've used in the past, bought at Michael's using a 40% off coupon.

I now have a forest on the sofa table.

I'm not quite sure about the old barn board running down the middle of the sofa table. Mick bought it for $5.00. It was cut to fit the kitchen table but I didn't like how it looked.

Bleached Bottle Brush Trees

At the end of the Christmas season last year I bought a package of 21 bottle brush trees.

Over the weekend I bleached the trees using a mixture of one gallon of hot water and a 1/4 cup of bleach. I then soaked the trees for about 20 minutes. One tree took a bit longer.

 I've seen bleached trees that are then decorated with glass balls and glitter snow. I preferred to leave mine plain.

 I wasn't sure if I would try the bleaching the trees. In fact ,Amie had to talk me into the bleaching.

I really like how they look. Although, I would not bleach any of the old bottle brush trees that I have.

Thanksgiving Day

Our 22 pound turkey looked and tasted wonderful. I need to roast turkey more often.

I used the same tablecloth, napkins, plates and place cards, etc. as last year. Although, I did have to make six extra place cards.

I bought a Groupon from a company to print photo books. Going to make a six inch by eight inch book of our Thanksgiving. Will include recipes on a few of the photographs. Amie got me started with Photoshop instructions. I keep a cheat sheet & hopefully I can figure it out.

We had pumpkin pie, apple crisp and raspberry pie squares for dessert. I eat pumpkin pie once a year. Like turkey, I should make pumpkin pie more often.

We had a wonderful meal and day, except for the part about the Dallas Cowboy's winning.