When Bloggers Inspire...

Last year, I greatly admired Tatyana's beautiful post about choosing and decorating her Christmas tree.  If you missed it, go here.  Each year Loree posts images of her magazine-worthy holiday decorations which always make me think about decorating my own house.  I used to love decorating for Christmas and put a tree in every room; still like the idea of it.  The thought of taking it all down, however is not so much fun.   Part of the reason not to do a tree was that putting the large imitation tree together and putting the lights on took so much time, more time than setting up a real tree.  Tom decided to remove that obstacle this year by buying a new pre-lit tree.  This would be the year to once again deck the hall in a big way.  Cedar garlands, holly, all sorts of clipped evergreens to fragrance the house,  a  room full of decorations schlepped upstairs all to dress the house.   Things got a little hectic with performances, jobs, blogging, etc.   To join with Tatyana and Loree, I'd like to share the extent or our decorating.

I mentioned to Loree that we'd gotten a new tree this year that was still in a box in the entryway.  She asked, "Will you be pulling the tree out of the box and decorating it? Or just enjoying the (I'm assuming there is one) photo on the box?"  That lady is full of style pointers!

So, I decided to turn the box around  to see if there might indeed be a festive picture.  Gosh, I feel all warm and sentimental already.  Look at that beautiful red background. 

It only needs a few decorations on it.  There, isn't that better?  Ornaments on a tree, is there anything more quintessentially Christmas? 
The best part?  Only these two boxes to carry to the basement and just this little patch of vacuuming.   This is a step up from last year's effort. Maybe next year will be the year that I once again throw the Robert Shaw Chorale albums on the hi fi and deck the halls once again.   Hope your holiday decorating is equally stress free!