this past weekend, my roomie and i decided to go purchase a christmas tree to put next to our [fake] fire place. well, most of the weekend was pouring rain so rather than going in search countless hours for a tree, we trucked half a mile up the road to a local food lion. we'd actually heard really good things about the trees there from both of our coworkers, so we figured we'd give it a shot.we got home and got the tree in the stand. after about 30 minutes of trying to get the tree straight in the stand, we realized that this wasn't possible, as the tree itself was crooked up the trunk.
so to fix the situation (i should have taken a picture of this), i wedged one of my shoes under the tree stand so it would stand about as straight as it could. genius.
we pull out the ornaments i got at target and i realized i forgot to buy hooks. not so genius. [this is by far one of the biggest rip offs i've ever seen. like the 8 hotdogs and 12 buns situation. why would they not sell hooks with the ornaments??] so rather than being smart and using paperclips (which i didn't think of until i was in lying awake in bed later...), we just shoved the ornaments onto the ends of the limbs. they're pretty much just stuck to the sap at this point. we didn't have a tree topper, and after an unsuccessful attempt at making a bow with leftover ribbon, i remembered a little snowman i've had for a few years that rotates glowing different colors on repeat. he's now found his home sitting on the top branch of the tree.
the tree skirt at the bottom is actually a cheap blanket that i'd gotten on an airplane one time (i actually don't think i was supposed to take it home with me?) that i didn't mind getting sap on. and it covered up a wedged shoe well.
needless to say, we've got our own little version of charlie brown's christmas tree. but we love it :)
**if you click on the pictures, you can see them a little bigger
