Christmas Decorations with meaning

Last year we did not have a tree and we only put up a few decorations. This year I wanted a little bit more, even though we miss our families and our kids, I wanted to decorate the house.

If you read my previous posts you will know that I decorated the whole house and bought a few strings of lights for the outside all at a thrift store. Hubby didn't want a tree, I heard all the excuses, living room is too small. There will be pine needles everywhere, its just the two us do we really need a tree. And I thought I guess he is right, we really don't need a tree.

 

Then one night we were sitting around and I was on Pinterest, my favorite site. I saw a very cool DIY idea to decorate instead of a tree. So out to the garage I went in my jammies and hauled the wooden ladder in the house. My hubby who was watching a movie and laying on the couch, gave me a strange look. He said what the heck are you going to do with that. I said I am going to decorate it and use it as a substitute for a tree.

 

He looked at me like I had completely lost my mind, "your kidding right, you are not really going to decorate a ladder".

 Nope, not kidding.

I strung two sets of lights on the ladder and then I put some coloured lanterns on the steps. I had a metal star that was grey and I gave it a quick coat of ASCP pure white. I put a few glass ornaments on the steps as well and hung a few from the lights. I rigged the lights up so there is one inside each of the lanterns, so when the lights are on it looks like the lanterns are lit up.

Hubby kept shaking his head as I was decorating, and he kept muttering something about a sanity hearing lol . And Maggie growled and barked at it for most of the evening, but I love it.

It has lights, ornaments, a star, a tree skirt and a spot to put the presents. Everything a tree has

Here is a pic of it in the daytime.

(don't look at the ugly couch, I bought that when I thought we were only going to be here 6 months)

 

I love my ladder and it makes perfect sense to me, I upcycle and I am DIYer, so why not a ladder tree

Are you on board with it?

Or will you be testifying for hubby at my sanity hearing, that I really have lost my mind hehe

 

 

This is on the opposite side of the living room, you can see the ladder refection in the mirror

I found quite a few decorations that go quite nicely with my white colour scheme

 

 

Here is another pic of the tree, this was before I painted the star white

 

Most of you probably know that I follow a lot of blogs but I have a few favorites

One of my favorites is

Simply Vintagous

Suzan is hilarious and I love her funny stories about her and her hubby

And I love to see her creations, she is amazing

My buddy Suzan had a Christmas decoration that she had made and I knew I wanted to make one too

She had taken an empty frame and added ornaments to it

It was so pretty that I told her I was going to make one too

http://suzyq-vintagous.blogspot.ca/

Here is Suzans, isn't it gorgeous

 

 

I have quite a few empty picture frames, but I decided to use an empty window frame instead

 

 

This picture frame only has two mirrors in it, the rest of the window panes are empty

I intend to replace the empty panes with mirrors

but for now I am using it like this for the ornaments

 

 

 

 

 

 

This weekend my mind was on nothing but the horrible tragedy that took so many lives in Newton Connecticut

I am still so very sad over the loss of so many young lives

With this in mind, this ornament is in remembrance of them

I have put 20 sparkly glass icicles for the fragile innocent lives that were lost

And I have put 6 silver ornaments for the teachers and staff that also perished

I know there were 2 other lives lost that day

but I am still too angry to feel any sympathy for those two lives

yes his mother was a victim too, but I blame her for having those kinds of weapons in the house

And I know he was not mentally stable, but I am not ready to feel sorry for him

You may not agree with me, but that is how I feel

 

This morning we woke up to 19 centimetres of snow

It was a pretty site though, so I took a few pics of the yard

 

 

This is a shot of our back yard and the river

 

 

 

it was snowing pretty heavy when I took this pic

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a pic of the neighbours yard

 

 

 

I had to shovel away a small area in the snow, too put feed down for my little ducks

 

 

Maggie made her own path in the snow

 

 

Maggie had a fun snow day

 

 

And it tired her right out

 

 

 

SSSSSSSnnnnnnnnoooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

and on that note Maggie and I say goodnight

 

Happy picking, painting, decorating, and playing in the snow

 

hugs

 

 

 

and Maggie says good bye too zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz