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    Real Tree

    December 8, 2011 |

    After wanting one for the past few years and saying “next year,” “next year,” “next year…” we got a real tree this year!

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    I love it. It smells good, it looks good, the kids were super excited about it, and it just looks happier in here. Sure it’s messier than a fake tree, but with two little ones I need to vacuum at the end of every day anyways. 😉

    I made some a lot of these for the tree:

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    had Lowe’s guy cut off a piece of the stump to make these (found in Dec’s BHG),

    Source: Uploaded by user via Abbey on Pinterest

     

    and will be using Laura at Finding Home’s technique to make some of my newish ornaments vintagey:

    Source: findinghomeonline.com via AM on Pinterest

     

    We need to make snowflakes.

    Source: vintagejunky.com via AM on Pinterest

     

    My dad scored us some free Christmas lights and rescued them from the garbage (the old glass C9’s just like I wanted!). So for the first year, we have lights on our house. 🙂

    Doug made an awesome village scene (but that deserves it’s own post).

    You can’t see our tree yet because I still need to add the remainder of the ornaments.

    But this is hilarious 🙂

    Source: mcpactions.com via AM on Pinterest

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    1. Stevie from GardenTherapy.ca

      December 10, 2011 at 6:04 am

      great icicles idea, and I love your tree. So pretty.

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