{"id":10812,"date":"2013-11-30T23:16:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T05:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=10812"},"modified":"2013-11-30T23:23:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T05:23:33","slug":"its-officially-christmas-over-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=10812","title":{"rendered":"It’s Officially Christmas Over Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My super awesome husband helped me assemble and decorate our new Christmas tree. That’s after I registered my new tree on the NationalTree.com<\/a> of course. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Here’s what the new tree looked like before we added trimmings. Brian and I agreed that this is the most beautiful Christmas tree we have ever owned. I searched everywhere for a 9-foot tall, slim tree that’s got character. I finally found one that I liked at HomeDecorators.com<\/a>. I never knew about that store until my search for the perfect Christmas tree began. Now I’m hooked.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, I love that my new tree already has pinecones and berries and has a snowy look to it because then I don’t have to buy as many ornaments.<\/p>\n

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This is a photo of Brian trying to figure out if there’s enough room between the top of the tree and the ceiling for my new Kurt Adler 20-Light gold rattan star tree topper<\/a>\"\". It’s a $30 tree topper that I got on Amazon for just $14. I love, love, love Amazon!<\/p>\n

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This is our tree after we added some ornaments. I found rattan stars that match my tree topper perfectly at Pier 1<\/a>. I only got 10 of them and now wish that I would have gotten some more. Brian and I decided that it’s probably for the best as we wanted to keep this tree minimalistic. <\/p>\n

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Here’s a closer look at our tree. <\/p>\n

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The balls are not really ornaments. They are rattan vine glitter sphere<\/a> decorations (also from Pier 1). Most people put them in a bowl or basket. The burlap eucalyptus leaf branches<\/a> are another one of my improvisations. I think most of the time you’ll see these in tall vases. I had a vision of a natural-looking, woodsy, minimalist Christmas tree and I thought these decorations, though not really sold as Christmas tree ornaments, would look great in my tree. <\/p>\n

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The rest of my vision involved a burlap Christmas tree skirt and burlap ribbon. The tree skirt was perfect except for a small gash. I can’t tell if I got a defective item or if Brian damaged it while he was trying to open the package. He has this thing about using his knife to open packages and he’s not always the most gentle with it. I don’t ever return stuff so I guess I’m keeping it. I’m not happy about the tear, though. <\/p>\n

As far as the ribbon, well, I miscalculated and ran out. I thought 10 yards would be enough. Wrong. I ordered some more ribbon, which should arrive in a couple of days because I caved and signed up for Amazon Prime. As much as I order from Amazon, you’d think I’d have a Prime membership already. I’m too cheap for that, though. I usually just take advantage of the free super saver shipping. However, running out of burlap ribbon in the middle of trimming the tree constituted an emergency. LOL. <\/p>\n

Anyway, stay tuned because I’ll be taking a picture of the completed tree as soon as the additional burlap arrives. Check back soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My super awesome husband helped me assemble and decorate our new Christmas tree. That’s after I registered my new tree on the NationalTree.com of course. \ud83d\ude09 Here’s what the new tree looked like before we added trimmings. Brian and I agreed that this is the most beautiful Christmas tree we have ever owned. I searched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[380,338],"tags":[235,1969,153,199,2496,2228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10812"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10825,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10812\/revisions\/10825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}