It's beginning to look a LITTLE like Christmas!

It doesn't look like I'll have a big enough block of time to get out all the Christmas decorations until this weekend, but I have managed to squeeze a few things in here and there. At Target they have these cool conical-shaped trees covered in mosaic mirrors (like disco balls) and feathers. I fell in love with them, but not with their price. I decided to make a trip to Michaels to buy foam cones ($12 for 3 varying sizes), toothpicks, and gumdrops and make my own variation. I did a wreath like this one year and thought it was pretty cute but I think I like these trees even more. The small one took an hour, the medium one an hour and a half, and I still have the tall one to do--but I'm out of toothpicks and nearly out of gumdrops, so biggie will have to wait (times to complete were based on a lot of 'help' from my children!). If you're interested in doing one, all you do is break a toothpick in half, push the broken end into a gumdrop, and the sharp end into your foam 'whatever' and voila! How I'll go all of December without James and Liam trying to eat these, I'm not sure. At least I got a picture!
I got the 'wind swirls' up on my windows (they're on all my front windows, but it was too cold to take any more pictures!). I made them with the car paint that comes in a foam tip applicator. I did all my windows with it last year too, and still have over half a bottle left--pretty good $2.00 investment :)! They make a kind of frame for my tree that goes in the big window--fun! fun!

And now I feel just a little bit Christmas-y---yeah!