We decorated for Christmas early this year, so I have had a lot of time to put stuff up and adjust so that it is nearly perfect.Mom bought us a artificially Christmas tree last year for Christmas. It was the perfect gift! Last year Jeff loved our live tree so much he could not bear to part with it (it sat out on our porch until May). So now we can leave the tree up as long as we want.
The tree is a pre-lit 7.5' slim mixed pine. Our color theme this year is Champagne and Gold. We
used wide gold and champagne snowflake ribbon as garland, as well as a couple of strands of white metal doves from Possibilities. Over the years we have collected a spectrum of beautiful matte, shiny and sparkley glass ornaments of all shapes and sizes. We used gold, white and champagne glass ornaments in bell, ball and icicle shapes. Jeff and I have taken up the tradition of buying a Hallmark decoration for the tree each year, we read the poems on the back of the box for each Hallmark ornament as we put it on the tree. We also purchased some vintage inspired Martha Stewart metallic glass clip on bird ornaments with real feather tails. Tucked in among the branches are gold and white silk poinsettia blossoms and gold and pearl berries. Topping off our tree is the beautiful cream metal star Mom gave us.My tablescape starts of with my white jacquard tablecloth as a base. Over that is a red, claret, burgundy and maroon stripped table runner. Each place setting has a burgundy place mat and gold charger. On the charger is a white jacquard napkin in a red berry napkin ring from My Favorite Things. The centerpiece is a twig and red berry wreath from My Favorite Things and a pumpkin spice birch bark candle that I made with birch bark mom gave me.
I made a wreath for our front door, that matches our tree, using the grapevine wreath I re-decorate each season. I used the same wide gold and champagne ribbon as I did on the tree as well as the gold and white poinsettia blossoms and a couple of gold sparkley twirls.
