Imagine our surprise when we picked up the box to carry it in the house and a family of mice sprang forth from between the box flaps. With visions of nests and pee and poo everywhere, we did not even open the box to check the damage. I still can't bring myself to look.
Now what were we going to do for a Christmas tree?
I've spent way too much time on Pinterest lately pinning one craft idea after another. It shows in the way I've started to think.
No way was I going to shell out $20 to Walmart for a dead tree I'd just be throwing out next week.
I looked around me while I stood there beside the old tree which had become Mouse Motel, and looked about the property for a likely substitute.
I spied some fallen branches from the oaks we have all around us and a seed was planted in my brain.
♫ 3 Sticks from oak trees
2 Strings of Lights
and a new tra-dition is born. ♫
I sprayed the sticks metallic silver (thinking it was gold like the cap of the spray can).
Carefully draped 2 strings of lights, then placed sections of cut garland around and added silk wrapped Styrofoam Christmas balls and the new celebratory decorative object was born.
Total cost: $2 for the can of spray paint. The rest of the stuff we already had.
This falls short of a traditional tree, yet shows more effort than say a Festivus Pole.
Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas Festivus holiday!
I'm seriously thinking of doing this for every holiday. Next up? The Valentine Stick. {thanks for the idea, Cindy!}
Yes, yes a Valentine tree full of love. The "stick" idea is great for every holiday or left out all year and decorated seasonally. I have wanted one for awhile, just haven't come across the perfect stick yet and I refuse to buy one from the craft store.
ReplyDeleteHeh. I wasn't too picky. Just picked up some fallen branches from the yard. Then I stripped off the smaller stuff, leaving the main stick with some branches here and there. If I had it to do over (which I will with the Valentine Stick) I would cut a fresh branch so as to avoid brittleness and possible breakage so I can hang more than styrofoam balls or paper decorations (not that there's anything wrong with that). :P
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