Pages

Thursday, October 15, 2009


Larry, the singing dancing skeleton, is a big hit with the neighborhood kids.

When Brian and I first got married it became apparent very quickly that we were incompatible when it came to one thing...

Holiday decorations.

You see, Brian grew up in a home and a neighborhood where everyone decorates like its Disneyland. There is literally bumper to bumper traffic in his neighborhood during the holidays because the lights are so awsome.

I grew up in a home where we usually had a Christmas tree, but it was always nailed straight into the floor. That's right, straight through the carpet and into the wood floorboards. (We obviously didn't want to be bothered with picking it up and redecorating it every time it fell down!)

So when Brian asked, "Aren't we going to decorate?" my perfectionism resisted. What?! I have to plan and coordinate decorations for every holiday!? What if it's not perfect?

So I came up with a plan.

"Brian. You do it."

So he did.

Then comes Ashlynn. And bless her little soul, if she didn't inherit Grandma Caroline’s gift for decorating. When the first of October rolls around, I can always count on her and her daddy pulling out the boxes of decorations I have accumulated over the years and “decking the halls”!

I find it a relief because I love the look of being festive, I just don’t want to have to make any decisions about how or where to put the festivity.

This year, I tried to help out with the decorating, though, and I’m pretty sure I’ve thrown everybody off (yeah, I’m starting to get puzzled comments from the neighbors). I don’t like scary things at Halloween because it scares my kids. So I chose “Nightmare before Christmas” style, and “decked the halls” with black, purple and orange for Halloween.



I used electrical tape to cover the red stripe in the candy canes.



This was Ashlynn's idea, to put Toot and Puddle, our ceramic pigs, with some fake pumpkins.

6 comments:

melissa said...

I love the color scheme and the flag garland! Ash- the pigs in the pumpkins was a great touch... I noticed that the other day! Too cute (and not scary :)!

Lisa Henderson said...

I love your decorations! I hate the scary side of Halloween too but I'm pretty sure I would like Larry, the dancing skeleton. Did you make the banner. Its super cute!

Annessa said...

Absolutely darling! I love the pigs and the colors! WAy to go

Grandma Caroline said...

Well, for a grinch, you did a pretty good job of Dekking up the place! I love the integration of candy canes (with black stripes) mixed in with pumpkins and pigs! What a hoot! I'd love to see it in person!

V and Co. said...

perfect can brian and ash come over and decorate my outside while you and i eat chocolate and watch nightmare before christmas? i don't do the outside thing so good...i do tend to go a little overboard inside though.
hmmm i wonder what kind of "things" i'm creating right now that my kids will be doing when they are married. makes me smile every time i think about what our kids are going to say about us when they get older and the traditions they grew up with!

kmk said...

Those look so cool!