The Happy Children's Tree

A Colorful Chaos: The Children's Tree

 

In our first floor hallway, Liliana and Vera Rose decorated their own happy little tree: full of animals, dolls, and toys. Most of the ornaments are felted wool, wooden, or tin. All of them are silly! We also added colorful pink, orange, and red ribbon. For the first week, the tree was chronically either undecorated (oh, the joy of taking OFF the ornaments and ribbon!) or pulled over, so finally, just prior to hosting a couple of parties, I helped them redecorate the tree and then elevated the tree to the top of an end-stand so that it would be temporarilly out of reach. Now, it still stands in all its rediculous glory, but barely so, since the artificial tree is pretty unsteady and I had first weighted it by tying a beach blanket around large books and boxes of pancake mix and flour sacks. Once I elevated it, the flour and other items somehow shifted in a not-good way so I ended up tying the tree to the stair case--so far so good!



The Children's tree next to the nutcracker garland on the stairs.

In our first floor hallway, Liliana and Vera Rose decorated their own happy little tree:  full of animals, dolls, and toys.  Most of the ornaments are felted wool, wooden, or tin.  All of them are silly!  We also added colorful pink, orange, and red ribbon.  For the first week, the tree was chronically either undecorated (oh, the joy of taking OFF the ornaments and ribbon!) or pulled over, so finally, just prior to hosting a couple of parties, I helped them redecorate the tree and then elevated the tree to the top of an end-stand so that it would be temporarilly out of reach.  Now, it still stands in all its rediculous glory, but barely so, since the artificial tree is pretty unsteady and I had first weighted it by tying a beach blanket around large books, and boxes of pancake mix and flour sacks.  Once I elevated it, the flour and other items somehow shifted in a not-good way so I ended up tying the tree to the stair case--so far so good!