Ornament and stocking making...

The night before we left for our Christmas vacay in jolly ole' England, I finished making our stockings, and we painted and hung our ornaments. We only had two colors of paint, red and black, so two themes cames to mind: ninjas and the Phillies (ok there's no black in the Phillies logo, but I think we [read: I] made it work regardless).




I think that a ninja is a suitable first ornament to hang...


[Hey! I made those two stockings!]




All in all we made about 30 ornaments, and with the handful of ornaments that we had purchased at the Thoiry and St. Jean de Gonville's Christmas marches our Chrismukkah tree turned out not too shabby. Between the ornaments, tree stand and stockings, we definitely had a very DIY Chrismukkah!

Tree stand 2.0

So, guess who wasn't happy with the Chrismukkah tree stand that he made?


This guy.

Monday night was spent with the two of us hard at work - me on making some stockings for us by hand (one down, one to go), and Dan in the garage re-doing the work that I didn't feel needed to be re-done. He finished this stand very quickly, and we now have tree stand 2.0 holding up our tree in the living room. I'm not gonna lie, I'm even more impressed than before. I no longer walk past the tree and worry that it is going to fall on me, nor does it make random creaking noises when you accidentally bump into it.


Good work, Doc.

Chrismukkah tree stand, oh Chrismukkah tree stand...

Before I get into the festivities that were Sunday, I'd like to address a point of contention:

My husband is kind of crazy.
But it's the good kind of crazy.
Crazy though, nonetheless.


Where I come from, people buy Christmas (and Chrismukkah) tree stands. They are red and green, metal, have 4 screws and a bowl for water so the tree can drink drink drink.


So you can imagine my surprise when my midwest husband told me he'd like to make our Christmukkah tree stand this year.


"That sounds hard," this east coaster responded.
"Meh," was the response I received.
And so with that, it was apparently decided.


Two nights ago Dan came home with a 2x2, a saw, and a bag of nails.


An hour and a half later, we had a Chrismukkah tree stand.


And a standing Chrismukkah tree.


The man never ceases to amaze me.


A la prochain friends...