Oh Tannenbaum

Rob mentioned our Christmas tree in the last post and I have been meaning to post some pictures of Christmas-y living room ever since. I just didn't want to do it until I got a tree skirt so you don't have to look at our ugly tree stand and scrap of carpet that the stand is sitting on! Every year I think, "I really need to get a tree skirt to cover everything" but I end up using an old white sheet which has worked well and been free. Somehow in all my moving around since last Christmas, I lost the white sheet. It could be in one of the boxes that are still full of stuff and sitting in the garage but it wasn't worth looking for. I finally broke down and spent $4.99 on a new red tree skirt at Target last Friday. It turned out to just be a big round piece of felt with some scalloped edges so I had to do some modifications to get a slit on one side and get the middle cut out for the tree. I also picked up a nativity scene while I was there, something I had been wanting for a while but could not find one I liked. There was a really nice that was about $50 but I bought the one for $10. It's still really nice and I didn't want to spend a fortune on it, especially since Rob wasn't with me. I tried to find links to both these items on Target's website but they were not on there. Bad Target!

So! Now we have a tree skirt, a nativity set and I am ready to share what the living room looks like, all Christmas-ed out.