I am seriously dragging. I haven’t been home nights for the last three days and it caught up with me. I slept late today and I had a bunch of loose ends to take care off that I’m still in the middle of fixing.I’ve taken down the outdoor Christmas decorations, of course, but I still have the tree up. I just now tonight took a picture of my Christmas tree. I thought it came out pretty nice, even though I should already be planning for next year instead of reveling in this season's handiwork.
One thing I will say about it, it came out better than the last picture I shot of it. Way better.
Steven, Give yourself a break. Don't start planning for next Christmas until April at least. Heck, I'd even let it go until September, so I can enjoy Valentines Day, Easter, and all that wonderful stuff that happens during the summer, mmmm...BBQ.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I usually get half my Christmas shopping done for the next year in January, during all the clearance sales, but last year, and this year, I've been slacking, and it hasn't been so bad. Very pretty Christmas tree, by the way. We also have a big brick fireplace, and though I'm always tempted to paint it in the spring (ours takes up one whole wall of our living room) it does look nice during the holidays.
Thanks, Marrie. Maybe I am jumping the gun just a little. There are a lot of other holidays to enjoy.
ReplyDeleteI focus a lot of the tree because I love Christmas trees and I've spent the last ten years honing the family room tree to my own version of perfection.
I'm not a "theme tree" kind of person, so I try every year to make it seem casually thrown together. But I'm incredibly picky about how the tree looks so I meticulously place everything on the tree for maximum impact. So my "no theme" tree is secretly a carefully planned theme tree.
God, I'm weird.
Anyway, I hope you continue to resist the urge to paint your fireplace. I'm not a fan of painted brick. Being an architect, I always want the natural beauty of things to shine through.
Then again, I haven't seen your fireplace. The brick color could be a little much for the room that it's in. In a case like that, it probably would be better to paint it to mitigate its impact.
Just don't do like my friend Kevin's brother did. He painted his fireplace, but he painted each individual brick. Worse yet, he painted them all red. So he took a real brick fireplace and made it look like a fake fireplace from a cartoon. :-)
Nice picture.
ReplyDeleteWe finally got most everything put up this past weekend. I still have a tiny tree I need to pack up that was at moms (and now sitting in my bedroom closet)...but am glad everything else is up...
Now to figure out how I want to round out all these now empty spaces left by the Christmas that is gone. LOL
I would love to find some empty space in my house :-)
ReplyDeleteWe're all a bunch of pack-rats here, I tell ya.