When asked why I hadn’t gone to any effort to wear an ugly sweater to our neighbor’s party, I answered, this is not my realm of effort. I use every drop of my holiday creativity to decorate my tree. My tree is for me and it kicks everyone else’s tree’s butt. Plus at my age, you don’t want to waste an opportunity to look good at a party. Please.
I usually don’t like to start decorating too early, as in right after Thanksgiving. Because, if I only have a month’s worth of joy for holiday decorations, I want to make sure it extends into the New Year a little. So we collected our tree on December 10th. Got to see our friend Sue too.
The tree took three days to decorate. One session to light with nearly a 1000 lights. One to swag and swath in mesh and ribbons. And one day to put the ornaments on. Because that’s how I Christmas tree decorate.
Although the tree got done, the other places in need of styling remained unsatisfactory. And then my inspiration dried up. I lost my mojo, my creative momentum. Until finally, yesterday, I finished up the job. Sheww.
I want to have fun every year decorating. And the fine line is between having it be fun and having it be a chore. Between doing it for me or for a greater audience. I watch myself very carefully and I can say that I did well this year. When I was done, I was done.
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4 Comments
Full of light and colour and sparkle! Just what Christmas should be!
Thank you Martina!!!
Merry Christmas !!!
Absolutely gorgeous! How resplendent – definitely 3 days of creative touch in there. I like your observation, too, on the decorating conundrum of chore vs pleasure. Cheers!
Yayyyyyyy. Thank you for stopping by lovely Dawn. I am feeling so satisfied it’s a wonderfilled feeling. Today, doing what I want to do seems like crazy talk. Loving it. Hope you Christmas has satisfaction built into it too.
Love Ya’,
Shalagh