RE: holiday decorating

During one of our remodelings, when the living room was all tore apart
and there was no place to put a full size tree and being too cheap to
spend money on an artifical tree for one season, here was my solution...


I took a large terracotta pot, put a standard sized tomate cage into it
upside down (so the "legs" were sticking up!), wired the legs together
to form a point, put a large heavy rock into the bottom to keep it from
tipping, and wrapped the tomato cage with two of those lighted indoor
artificial garlands...put the decorations on and voila! a beautiful
little Christmas tree at no cost, made from stuff I already had around
the house. My kids loved it! It was just their size and it fit perfectly
on top of the buffet. :-)



Melody, IA (Z 5/4)

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
--Albert Einstein

 --- On Mon 10/13, Donna  < justme@prairieinet.net > wrote:
From: Donna  [mailto: justme@prairieinet.net]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:47:05 -0500
Subject: RE: [CHAT] holiday decorating

Of course the animals here all have their own stockings and
presents<br>under the tree.... they are part of the family here
anyways.<br><br>Donna<br>Yipes Kitty!- If you gave the tree away where
are the 'boys' presents<br>going to go?!? :)<br><br>> <br>> >>and, of
course, I hang a big stocking for each cat.<br>> <br>> Kitty, we do that
too. I had to laugh - in this issue of AARP<br>Magazine it<br>> said
that 64 percent of Americans hang a stocking at Christmas
for<br>their<br>> pet.<br>> <br>> By the way, I grew up in Homewood, IL,
about 30 miles south of Chicago<br>and<br>> not too far from Donna!<br>>
<br>> Mardi<br>> Iowa
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