The Amazing Christmas Tree

This year I really wanted a Christmas tree. Real trees are the best, but we had about 0 extra square feet to put a tree in our tiny living room. Or, we could have gotten a 1-foot tree. However, I happen to know that at the BYU Bookstore, they sell grand quantities of butcher paper for very cheap. So that is what we did!

I got about 10 feet of paper for $1.20. James had the really good idea of folding squares in half and taping two of the sides to the tree so they would stick out.

Before decorating:

After decorating:

We cut out most of the decorations from extra cardstock that was left over from my Platonic Solids booth at the STEM fair. Incidentally. You may notice we have a bust of Plato hanging on the tree too. A couple of the ornaments were cut out from the old music sheets I bought at DI. James even spray painted one with a miniature can of spray paint we randomly have.

With the last bits of green paper, we decided to thrown in a mistletoe for good measure. :D

And I thought I'd put this picture in here too. I liked having a fall wreath on our door so I made a Christmas one too. (My mom had given me two grapevine wreaths so this is the second one.) James, that kind soul, went with me at the dead of night to BYU campus (again) to collect the supplies. This time it wasn't because I was embarrassed... I was just worried that I might not be strictly "allowed" to cut branches off of their pine trees and steal berries and such. The silver snowflakes are from Jo-Ann, James' arch-nemesis.

We were fabulously decked out for the holidays!