Don't you look pretty this year? I got some new and rather pretty gold decorations, including the rather non-traditional firework tree topper and added to the bead ropes and bows I already had, and now I think my tree is rather well dressed. Even my tree skirt goes well with the new decorative scheme in the living room.
I can't recall when I made the tree skirt, but it was a fair number of years ago. Its a pieced and quilted star made in celestial print quilt cotton with navy sheeting for the plain sections. The back is an old white sheet. The navy sections have lilac sparkly stars stencilled on in iron-fix fabric paint because the navy looked boringly plain... and lilac sparkly paint was what I had. As you do....
I've also dressed the mantlepiece using a garland that I usually have running down the rails of the open plan stairs. I think it looks fab on the mantlepiece and works well with the gorgeous boiled wool hearts that RuthieSews sent me last year, which I've pinned to the mantle. The garland is a little unstable up there, I need to find a way to anchor it in place lest it fall off and startle the dog into an extended bark-fest... or worse, actually land on her.
I am not sure why some of my photos are coming out blurry and some are fine so apologies for the quality of the garland photo.
3 comments:
Just love the firework topper on your tree ~ both tree and garland look very festive ... J
Very nice! A lot more sophisticated (sp?)than my 'see how many baubles i can stuff on the tree' approach :-)
Tree skirt (does not compute), cannot see bottom of tree for dangling things and piles of presents.....
A very pretty tree and I do like the tree skirt.
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