Slaton Christmas Blog: Three New Trees!

December 10, 2008

I got industrious tonight. lol I didn't have the energy to drag out a big tree and begin decorating it , so I decorated above the cabinets where our Christmas Cards are displayed. (Although I've got to do one more big one, to put all of our "extended family" gifts under. )Under our "Close Knit Family" Tree are gifts for/from Ryan and I, and the gifts for Tiffani. She always does an opening with us too at some point, besides our "family" night. The other tree is our parents, siblings, and nieces and nephews gifts. We open on different nights with them, so its easier to put up two big trees and make sure the gifts are split. Keeps us from getting confused and giving out gifts we intended to open another night.

So to what I got done tonight... I added 3 new trees (all about 2 1/2-3 feet, but trees none the less) to our Christmas decorations, and the worst (or best? lol) part is that these were not trees that were on my list of themes for this year. It's good that I had the trees to do it. But, at the same time, that means I still have several trees I need to do! lol

You may remember a post a few days ago showing my cabinet with our Christmas cards on it. Well, tonight I stripped all the decorations off the top of that cabinet (which has a little over 3 ft. tall space to use for decorating) and put up my "North Pole" and "Toy Shop". Oh it was so much fun. I had such a good time doing it.

First, I put up my large Annalee Santa and Reindeer then I added a tree there to make my Santa's workshop. I had my "worker mouse" with his hammer and wood, and my large green elf up on a ladder adding decorations. This whole section I did with Annalee mouse dolls and ornaments, and some elves on ladders ornaments. I also added on the other side of it, Santa reading the naughty and nice list, and my Annalee Penguin.

Then, my favorite part, I got out my American Girl dolls, Samantha and Nellie and dressed them in their Christmas dresses, added stockings to their hands (And Samantha's reindeer doll), and put them around a tree I decorated for them. I didn't get real elaborate with this tree, I just did a lot of small ornaments, and tried to keep them in appropriate size with the dolls.

After that, I moved over and did a silver, green, and red tree and made it my elf tree. I filled it it with elves and elf ornaments. I have several more elves and hope to be able to do a large elf tree next year, but this one was just right for my space this year.

I still need to add a few small things here and there, but overall I had such a great time doing this cabinet tonight, and in person I am just in love with it. I also plan to add a "North Pole" sign above the American girl dolls. If this space were a little bigger, I would've liked to have added Christmas toys and make it a real "toy shop scene". I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I have enjoyed working on this tonight!

Keeping Christmas In My Heart,

*Heth*