It’s Thanksgiving weekend, and I have started decorating.   I love a natural, country Christmas.   I started with the sled that I bought in Mendota for $15.    Paired with stems of boxwood and a velvet ribbon, I’m so happy with it.   It’s right by my front door.

I am lazy about holidays.  Everything that comes out, has to go away come January, but I can leave that sled out after Christmas.  Same with this grapevine snowman.

My True Love, Lowe’s, recently opened a brand new store in Bristol.  It’s awesome, but no matter how good you are, when Home Depot has wreaths like this for $6.88 on Black Friday at 6 am, I’m going to be at Home Depot.   I had a gift card and I bought six wreaths and four packs of pine garland.   How pretty is this?

 

And I started making fresh boxwood wreaths…I’ll put these all over the inside of the house.

I preserved some of these a few years ago.  That post (here it is if you’re interested) has been viewed thousands of times.   I didn’t try that this time because it takes about three weeks to preserve the stems.  They’ll keep at least until Christmas without preserving.

But all this might be for nothing.   Christmas could be in trouble.