Xmas is Coming in a little over a month...Time to Decorate

Well it is that time again.



Living alone and working all the time, I don't have many visitors to my little cave. All the same, I figured I would get in the holiday "mood" tonight after visiting the local mall here in Racine (which is actually quite nice....I hadn't been there in years).



So when I got home I went downstairs and grabbed my little "Charlie Brown Tree", and dug out my "Scoobie Xmas ornaments" that my friend Doris gave me a few years ago. It is only about 2 feet high but it is "my tree". So with a string of lights and a few ornaments, I have my tree up in the corner of my dining room which is the area I tend to spend the most time in.



While looking for my ornaments, I came across a bunch of strands of lights and remember seeing a book at Barns and Noble about decorating with xmas tree lights....so.....I decided to try some things that I remembered seeing in the book. One idea which seemed real cool was to take a string of lights and stuff them in a clear glass vase (not too small but not too big..about a foot high)....and I just happened to have one so I stuffed the lights inside...put the vase on the floor...plugged the strand into an outlet and....wallla......it looks pretty neat.

The cool thing is that it can be used as "mood" lighting all year around. Well I then still had 3 more strands so I played around a bit with some items I had laying around and I think I created some pretty nifty lighting arrangements...one is a green glass head that I have had for years ( A Pier One Import "Impulse purchase"....if any one can relate). The other was an alien head and both "final effects" turned out pretty cool...as far as I am concerned at least.



So now I can sit in almost complete darkness with no overhead lighting and the apt is illuminated rather warmly for the winter along with the candles I have burning in various areas of my place. I will turn on more lights (promise) if any of my friends decide to visit this holiday season.



I just hope Scrappy doesn't destroy my tree...She is already over there, sniffing around and looking mighty curious. Oh well.



Now I just have to buy some "pine scented candles" to make the place smell like there is a real pine tree in here. I miss that smell. Growing up, my mom always had the most pretty "real" tree that she was always so proud of. Her ornaments were very eclectic and ranged from very antique to things us kids had made through the years at school. I think my brother Jim still has most of them, though I am not 100% for sure. I know I didn't get any of them after mom passed away. I may just have to ask him next time I go up to the Rapids if he still has them and if there is the chance of me having some of them. I really don't have anything of hers. Keepsakes can be very cool.



Time to get ready for bed.....