The larger one is holding some natural looking objects. Not blatantly Christmasy but goes well with the other two. |
Next I decorated the piano. I swapped out the candles for gold candles, added a few fake branches around the lamp, and filled a vase with mini ornaments and fake berry branches.
Oh and that little snowman guy was a present from a student a few years ago. He is kind of cheesy but my piano students enjoy pressing the button and making him play.
Next I filled a few more vases with fake snow and mini ornaments. I have a lot of these cylinder vases because they are from the centerpieces that I made for my wedding. They were filled with paper dogwood branches that I made.
I also set up a creche on the bookshelf across from the piano. This is the one that I had growing up. I bought some ceramic tealight holders at Target. They are cute when lit up because one has the three wise men and the camels and the other has a nativity scene.
Last year during our city's spring cleaning week, we decided to set my thrift store artificial tree out on the curb. We always had real trees at my house when I was growing up. It turns out that using real trees is a more environmentally concious choice than using fake ones. Also, my cat likes to eat trees and he gnawed on the fake one constantly (and climbed it). I worry about him ingesting plastic so I would rather he eat actual pine needles. We picked up this beauty on an extremely cold day in Fargo from a Boy Scout troop.
I have also been enjoying some holiday baking and I should have a post on that soon as well.
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