Wine Themed Christmas Tree

Okay I have decided on a Wine Themed Christmas Tree for my husband's "man cave".  It's actually a Poker room with a bar and a large wine cabinet.  I place a small tree on top of a wine barrel each year in here but I haven't found that perfect tree theme yet.

Loved my lime green tinsel tree with jewel themed ornaments but just didn't fit into this room.  Last year went with a basic tree with gingerbread/candy themed display with pink ribbon...that lasted one day :)

So it's Wine Theme this year.  Started looking at wine ornaments but I don't want it too store bought so I'm going to attempt to make some of the decorations.  Now if I could just get a day off to do some crafting!

Figure the colors will be a deep purple and green for ribbon and I'll include some grape clusters on the tree in different sizes (found some in Hobby Lobby that will work great).  I told my husband I need lots of wine corks but he doesn't seem to be in a wine drinking mood.  I think he should drink a couple of bottles a day :) so I have plenty of corks.  Figure I can attach a ribbon or small decoration to the cork and hang them on the tree.  Buy a couple of pre made ornaments and that should fill in the tree nicely.  Now, what do I do for a tree topper?  Ok I'll have to work on that one.

Check out some cool wine Christmas decorations I found while looking around -

This wreath is more for the fall season but I could tweak the look and add in some Christmas flair.

Here are some of the styles of store bought decorations that are available in the stores.

Now if only I had some more room in my house this would be awesome!!!

Themed Christmas Trees

It's actually September 1st!  I wait all year for Christmas to arrive and just hearing that it is September means fall and after fall comes CHRISTMAS!

Suddenly I'm thinking of all the items I want to get done for this years display both inside and out!

My first project needs to be my largest formal Christmas tree - I went with a green/gold theme for my formal living room tree the last two years so I really need a change in colors.  It looked great but I need a new look.  Any ideas?  The room already has some green's in it so I need to go with something along those lines or a compliment to green.    I need to establish the color scheme before I can create the tree. I am leaning towards brown and a mid green color.  Let the search begin.

In the meantime check out some of these great trees, any work for you?

White & Silver but I love the over sized dramatic ornaments.

I just love these themed trees!  Hmmm, where could I find a spot to duplicate this tree???

Love the pop of color with this aqua blue tree

Great surprise in color with pink and silver.

Is there really a tree in their?  Too cute!

So I still haven't found that perfect color scheme yet but heck, half the fun is shopping!

Let me know what your doing this year?

Is it too early to start planning your 2012 display?

So, I'm walking thru Hobby Lobby today and they are clearing out of a lot of merchandise so I overhear a customer asking why and the associate said "To make way for our Christmas Merchandise"....I was in shock!  Good shock, but shock non the less.

We didn't have Hobby Lobby open last year but I have heard they set Christmas earlier than most stores.  However, even I would be shocked if they set in June.

My mind has been racing though trying to figure out what to do different for my 2012 Christmas Display for outdoors.  Inside I want to do different this year to but it really is all about the outside :)

Checkout this great picture that was just posted, see I'm not the only one thinking it's not too early to start planning...

Time to start planning for 2012 Christmas!

In less than 9 months it's time to start decorating for Christmas.  I really wanted to find a lot of LED lights in the after Christmas sales but there were hardly any.  We found a few hundred of the color changing ones that change from red to green so I'll have to figure out a cool place for these.

We also bought a couple items for the yard.  Bought a little lighted 3D train that should look nice out in the yard.

I always start planning my next years display before I even take the current year down but I'm hitting a wall for this next year.  I know I want to do the arches again along the walk and by the front door but expand and go along the driveway this year.  I absolutely have to do better on the trees this year and move the Purple LED's up to a front tree.

I guess I just need to go online and find some great deals on LED's so I can figure out a creative way to use them in our display!

My Christmas Elf

My very own Christmas Elf is my son, Bryce.  He is 10 and loves the fact that we have been on the Temecula City Bus tour for Christmas Lights.  Each night he watches for the bus and then goes out to greet the bus and hands out Christmas Canes to everyone on the bus.  I love going out with him.  Being in a gated community it is a shame that more people cannot enjoy the light display we put on so this is great to see everyone excited about our lights. 

Hope we place again next year so we can continue to be on the bus tour!

Indoor Christmas Display

You can't just decorate the outside when the inside is just as important (well almost as important).  So here are several pictures of our inside decorations.

this is the main living room tree.  Decorations are similiar to last years tree so next year I'll have to come up with a new look with different ribbon and topper.  We just loved it so much last year we repeated it again this year. 

I love these jars.  I take the bags of fake snow and fill up the bottom of the jar and then just layer in a variety of red and silver ornaments to get a great eclectic look. 

I found this guy at Home Goods this year and knew I had to have him.  There's always room for another santa in my house :)

I'll share more pictures later.  Busy watching Christmas shows on TV now.  I love this time of the year!!!

The SIGN!!!

Isn't this a great sign.  Well to be honest it's great because it is in my yard!  Just had to show it off a little.