Holiday Decorating

Hello everyone, and I hope you all had/are having a wonderful holiday season! Mine was nice, though punctuated by travel mishaps and minimal time spent at home. It was also an unconventional Christmas for me, as Christmases go - because of snow and ice, we were unable to get a tree this year. (There was also fun with a tow truck on Christmas day, but we won't go into that.)

Without a tree to decorate on Christmas Eve, our first idea was to decorate a potted plant (sad, but could also be hilarious). Then my father decided to "prune" the holly tree out back, and came back with a six- to seven-foot branch - a bit aggressive for "pruning", wouldn't you say? We promptly decided to use this as our tree, spiky and scraggly though it was:

how sad is this?

We cut off the top two feet and spliced it back on so it stood up straight(er). I decorated it (carefully...those leaves are sharp!) with lights and ornaments, and I actually really like the finished look. Maybe not as elegant or full as an ideal tree, but beautiful in its own way:


I hope you like my last minute, pulled-together tree! More holiday fun coming later.