Several of you have emailed wondering when am I going to start showing off my Christmas decor?? (no pressure from you Girly Stuff!!!).
Here is the truth. I just can’t seem to get the decorating together. I have a gold leaf pumpkin in my entryway that is starting to mold on top. Yet I will make it last one.more.day.
I WANT to start Christmas decorating… but I’m not ready to hide my fall decor and replace it yet.
I went to Nell Hills (a Kansas City legend) to get inspired a few weeks ago. They had STICKS everywhere!!!! I have sticks already outside (pic above). I *heart* sticks.
Here are a few photos I took in the store on my cell phone. I had my real camera with me, but I didn’t want to look like “the-cheap-girl-who-is-not-really-going-to-buy-anything-but-just-wants-inspiration” person.
You can see a jillion of their photos if you become a Nell Hills fan on Facebook.
So I get all “stick inspired” and go directly to my friend Shauna’s house. I did not pass go. I did not collect $100. I did, however, convince her to promptly load up our toddlers and go collect sticks with me. Thank God for impulsive, supportive, crazy friends.
Several “ditch dives” and slummin’ for sticks later…. we had plenty.
Shauna whipped up this little arrangement on top of my desk for me…..
I bought the gold balls at a garage sale this summer. I knew I would find something to do with them!
I want to get a close up of the triple strand of crystals. They were $3.50 EACH at Nell Hills…. what a steal!!!
Then…. because I have a forest of sticks on the side of my house… I decide to make my oldest, dearest girlfriend a “stick centerpiece” for the baby shower I was hosting for her last weekend.
Can I just say that trying to spray paint sticks is an interesting fiasco?
But it did turn out cute!!!
Lucky for me, she took the ornaments off it and let me keep the rest! Yahoo! It’s now in my master bedroom….looking kinda Christmas-y?!? In a pink/baby girl/not at all sort of way….
I am right this very second thinking of how I need to be cleaning toilets before company comes tomorrow. Yet instead, I just borrowed a white urn from a neighbor and am contemplating ways I can make a “Christmas tree” out of sticks and lights for my master bedroom.
I think I need some eggnog.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Many blessings,
jennifer
