Merry Christmas!

I hope that you will all have a lovely Christmas and a festive New Year's Day!  I'll be back in the new year.

Christmas Tree

We are still undecided about whether to get a real or "fake" Christmas tree. I have always loved real trees and think that if you get one from a local farm that replants each year, that's the best way to go (especially if you get the tree mulched after the holidays). My husband feels really badly about chopping down a 5-year-old tree (or older) for just a few weeks. We've been looking into artificial options, but most of them are made of PVC and/or contain lead. I'm still not sure what we'll do this year, but this fresh balsam arrangement from L.L. Bean is a cute option!

O, Christmas Tree

It's actually snowing here today! Just some flurries, but it is really starting to feel like Christmas. We don't have a tree this year because we'll be out-of-town and back-and-forth, and we don't want to have the fire hazard of a dry tree on a wood floor with questionable wiring at our house. So, I'm going to borrow Dani's tree. She posted this gorgeous picture over at some lovely mumbo jumbo, and I think it is perfectly merry and bright.