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Our 2014 Christmas Tree

I've wanted a flocked tree for awhile now. When I saw they were on sale at a local arts and crafts shop hither inwards Florida, I jumped on the chance as well as this tree has non disappointed me. We took downward all of our Christmas ornaments, onetime trees & anything else that pertained to this vacation as well as consolidated. 

I haven't felt better. We select been purging non-stop as well as cypher is out of the question. This year, I wanted to become through all of our Christmas things as well as select a more, simplistic even as well as therefore refined look. I ended upwards donating 8 strands of garland, a Christmas tree to a friend, sold about other at the shop & currently select even as well as therefore about other for sale at the store, gave away iii storage totes amount of ornaments & decor as well as much more. We kept the ornaments that evidently had pregnant to us such equally the ones that our household unit of measurement as well as friends select given us. I paired those ornaments amongst many things I had inwards our habitation equally good equally other things I got concluding twelvemonth subsequently Christmas when they went on sale.

I wanted something rustic. Simple. Classic. And really different. I genuinely dearest a good adorned tree as well as I don't genuinely ever experience similar this is "too much." For every 100 people that dearest it, in that place volition live 1 that hates it as well as says its "too much" or yous need "color." And yous know what? It hurts my feelings. But at the same time, this is our tree inwards our describe solid where nosotros pay the bills. I recall we'll create what nosotros want.

Prepare yourself for a moving-picture exhibit overload.







I used lots of reflective surfaces to larn this look. Also, anything amongst corking texture similar the bark balls for illustration I loved! I wanted a natural color system as well as therefore I definitely stuck amongst that… as well as lastly, the to a greater extent than the better! In this case, less is non more. More is more!











And I wanted to larn a few amongst the lights on…. it is peculiarly pretty inwards the evenings… but for now, I allowed the natural lite inwards the sunroom to genuinely exhibit yous the truthful await of our tree this year.




I genuinely loved the woods meets frost manner it had this year. Next, twelvemonth I may convey inwards to a greater extent than pops of red, nighttime brownish or a nighttime blue. It genuinely has cerise berries on the tree but they are washed out past times all the neutrals which is genuinely fine amongst me… either way, I dearest our tree.

My picayune men select been inwards the vacation spirit also… but simply the other day, I snapped these of the 2 of them…via Instagram (You tin flame follow me past times clicking here.)
Look at these 2 picayune men, ever on the backs of my sofas… simply watching the twenty-four lx minutes menstruum become past times as well as of course of pedagogy beingness on squirrel patrol! We are currently working on our adjacent projection which is crown molding inwards the sunroom as well as therefore delight await out for that adjacent post!


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