I got the candle lamps into the front windows yesterday. I think I'll investigate the LED pillars Calli spoke of. The little candles that looked so cozy in our tiny upstairs dormer windows get lost in the wide windows in our new house. Plus the windows are divided in the center, so I really need four treatments, not two, for them.
The new wreath we bought last year, complete with the bows I tied and arranged with wired red and gold spangled organdy ribbon, is safely stored in the workshop attic, along with some other ornaments and decorations. H has tweaked his foot to the point he's been on a cane, and now crutches, so his progression of chores slammed to a halt a couple of weeks ago. The middle of the shop is occupied by components of three projects, so we can't let the attic stairs down without moving everything....
...I'm headed to Michael's and Joanne's on Monday to buy a new evergreen wreath, a small grapevine wreath, silk botannicals and florist wire. Oh, and more sparkly wired ribbon.
Indoors we'll do the minimum of the wooden sleigh driven by the Welsh Toybox bear and piled high with miniscule wrapped beribboned presents, rocking horse and tiny teddy bear, star-spangled garland wound about the sleigh's runners, various candles, and H's hand-painted Santa and Father Christmas figures. I may swag fake garland or tinsel along the rail of the antique crib full o'teddy bears, several of whom already wear brass bells on their leather collars. Or, you know, bow ties on their shirt collars.
I'd love to get a tabletop real tree, but I don't think we'll manage that this year. Also on the list for next year is an exterior electric outlet on the shop so we can put a wreath wound with white fairylights around the red metal marshall's star on the shop gable.