Christmas Tree 2010 Part 2 - The Decorated Tree

I'm joining Deck The Halls over at Between Naps On The Porch

A Silly Little Sparrow for Toot Your Horn Tuesday

Feathered Nest Holiday at French Country Cottage

Show and Tell Friday over at My Romantic Home

Vignette Fridays over at Color Outside The Lines
Christmas Tree Lane at Someday Crafts

My post this week is done in two parts so be sure to check out

Part 1 - The Ornaments

Over the 47 years that I've been decorating Christmas trees for my family

I've had a variety of themes from all the mixed primary colors when the

kids were small to themed trees, but for the last 10 years are so I've done

a mixture of traditional ornaments with a flowery slant.

 This was our 2009 tree posted for Met Monday 11/29/09 The lower branches look a little bare because Homer The Cat takes the ornaments off and then hides them all over the house.

Time for a new look! Something lighter, brighter and glittery!

 These are some of the ornaments that were made for this tree and detailed in 

Christmas Tree 2010 Part 1 - The Ornaments

Thank you so much for stopping by to help me decorate the Christmas Tree!

As we get closer to the big day, I'll be filling those paper cones with little candies and other sweet treats, so please be sure to stop by !

You can read about how many of these ornaments were refurbished and made

on Christmas Tree 2010 Part 1 - The Ornaments

Glitter Makes Anything Better!

Join everyone over at Savvy Southern Style for Boring To Better
and 
Thrifty Thursday over at Tales From Bloggeritaville
and
Frugalicious Friday over at Finding Fabulous

Take ANY ornament and you can make it better with glitter!

This is German galss glitter which just sparkles and sparkles and sparkles!

It pretty much will make your entire house sparkle if you are as messy as I am.

These are just a few examples of what you can do with a can of spray paint, spray adhesive, some glitter and either ornaments you want to refurbish or craft ornaments like these from Michael's.

They were on sale and I think the final cost was about 20cents each.  Spray paint any color, spray with adhesive, sprinkle with glitter, add a new hanging cord, and enjoy their sparkling personalities even when the tree lights are not on. You can also embellish them with findings, buttons, beads or whatever once the glitter is dried.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and make sure to come back for

Met Monday, when I'll be revealing this season's Christmas Tree and have

some additional easy to make ornament tips.

These are sooo easy!  The trick with these is to be able to STOP making them.

Bring an old book, some glitter, and some little embellishments along for Met Monday

and you can put a few together while you read about my 2010 Christmas tree! LOL