Merry Christmas!

I hope you and your families had a joyous Christmas celebration!  Here are a couple highlights from mine.

Christmas would not be complete without busting out the Gansner Family Christmas Carol Books.  Too bad we had to leave before it was show time.

 My gran, still gorg and sweet as pie at nearly 93.

What would Christmas be without the littles?! My oldest and youngest nieces, all ready for Santa visits on Christmas eve.

Creative Christmas Coverings

This year, I was trying to think outside-the-box for my holiday gift wrapping.  As I was looking around the house, I found these old flying charts of Eric's that are out-of-date and thought oh yeah.

How fun are these?!? I'll admit, sometimes I get annoyed since I hear about flying ALL THE TIME, but these are just cool.  

Since it's sort of a busy pattern I kept things simple with a twine bow and homemade tag.

The charts were nice and thick, unlike some of the wrapping papers you buy in stores.  Plus, I'm glad we could save money on wrapping paper and give these guys a destination besides the airport trashcans (for the time being.)

How are you wrapping your presents this year?  Traditional or out-of-the-box?

O Christmas Tree O Christmas Tree

...thy leaves are so unchanging!  

Thank you thank you (be happy you aren't actually hearing me singing-it sounds much better in my head than in real life!)

Anyways, I forgot to post pictures of my tannenbaum with my other Christmas decorations.  I didn't want him to feel left out.

I mentioned that I scaled back quite a bit on the decorations and went for more of a rustic/silver and gold this year.  The tree was no exception.  I kept all of the non-silver/white/gold decorations off this year.  I really would have liked to do a tree skirt like this:

taken from here

but I just haven't had the time.  Yet.  It might happen now that I'm healthy and Christmas break is looming.  So close yet so far!

Yes I scaled WAY back on tree ornaments.  Mostly because our little $15 tree can't hack it.  Seriously it's fallen over multiple times each of the 3 years we've had it.  So far so good this year *knock on wood.*

Here's a close up of some of my favorite ornaments.

And here he is in all his glory with the lights on.

We've already decided that the big guy is going to be transitioning to the airplane tree next year since our little guy is overflowing with airplanes.  Yes sir we are in the market for bigger and better in the Christmas tree department once December 26 rolls around!

Are you doing a real or fake tree this year?

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Xmas!

Welcome to the first post at 912 ELM Tree's second home! 

It's Christmas time so that means things are looking holly jolly around the house.  Other than in the man cave (which is still reserved for airplanes and of course fun!), I was really going for more of a traditional/rustic/silver & gold theme.

(Man cave transformation spoiler alert!)

Here's our airplane tree.  I think this is the first year that it's starting to look full.  There are also a couple ornaments from our summer travels.

Big thanks to Grandma Meyer for the candle holders.  I knew they would look great for a wintery holiday arrangement!  Plus, aren't my birds cute?!

I'm on a little bit of a burlap kick.  I had it up for fall, but since most of my house was covered in dust and tarps all of the autumn season, I just didn't get enough.  It's sorta wintery too, right?!

Here's the chalk board I made last summer.  I love changing it for the different seasons.

Hope things are looking merry and bright in your home too!