Since we celebrated Thanksgiving a little late we just got our Christmas decorations up this past weekend. I will be the first to admit that I'm a reluctant decorator. I agonize over decorating decisions knowing that I'm going to have to live with my choices for a long time. Fortunately I have a dear daughter who majored in interior decorating. She is not working in that field any more, but she still helps me with my decorating decisions. I especially miss her help when it comes to Christmas decorating.
Back in the last millennium when Nora still lived at home she made us these paper cubes that we can put on our Christmas tree lights.
The first set lasted through seven or eight Christmases and then she made us a new set a couple of years ago. I think she got the idea from a Martha Stewart magazine. (I found a number of sites on-line with directions when I googled folded paper cubes.) She made them from copy paper. I love the way they look on our tree and the way they diffuse the light.
I did make something new for our decor this year for our Thanksgiving centerpieces. I got the idea at a blog called 320 Sycamore. I couldn't find the exact glassware that she purchased, but came up with this combination at our local Dollar Tree. For Thanksgiving there were colorful leaves in the outer glasses and now for Christmas they contain nandina berries and leaves.
Here's a picture of our cat, Clementine in her favorite spot each December:
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on Dec 8th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Those paper squares look so pretty! And the cat adds a special touch too. . .
on Dec 10th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Our cats also love the tree. Thank goodness neither has ever tried to climb it!
But they do love to lounge underneath. Lately we’ve had a fire in our fireplace, which is in a different room. They have trouble choosing between the tree and the fire. One funny memory we have is a former cat we owned and loved who insisted on pilfering Christmas light bulbs. It’s a wonder she never electrocuted herself! Anytime we’d see a strand of lights off, we knew we could just find QT, and she would have the missing bulb in her mouth!
on Sep 20th, 2010 at 11:48 am
Love the centrepiece. I’m always looking for creative ideas for Christmas because I have three children and I don’t want to go out and buy everything when I could have my kids make items. The paper cubes are really cute!