Friday Flashback ~ Christmas in July!

What a wacky time to be thinking about Christmas! Well, not really. The last three years I have had the great pleasure of working with a couple friends decorating a tree for the annual Christmas Forest. This all benefits St. Peter's Hospital...beautifully decorated trees and wreaths that are auctioned at a big gala dinner the week after Thanksgiving. These trees are amazing, and I am always in awe of the creativity that goes into all these trees. Last night we had our planning meeting for this year, and our creative juices got flowing at the end.


But for the flashback, here is a glimpse into our past trees. (I can't quickly find the 2006 tree...Charlotte's Web. It was pretty. Trust me.)

2007...A Charlie Brown Christmas

We had FUN planning this tree.

2008... Visions of Sugar Plums

We wanted to do just a pretty tree. And it was.

It's harder to see the details on this one, but it had clusters of plastic plums that we "sugared" and plum-colored glass balls that we also "sugared". We also lightly flocked this tree, it looked just like a tree covered in light frost. Lots of silver...it really was pretty.

And what does 2009 hold? Well, it's going to be bright. It's going to be beautiful. It will have some creatures. Great creatures, and small creatures. But that's more of a flash forward, so that's all I will say for now. You'll have to wait for Thanksgiving weekend to come check it out!