This is my favorite time of the year. Tom doesn't care about it as much. But thankfully he cares about me so he is doing everything he can to make it special. First thing was the tree. He said he would have been fine without a tree. WHAT?! That is my favorite part! No other decorations are needed if I have a tree. (Even though I would have loved to buy materials to make more decorations.) A few days after Thanksgiving we brought a tree and some lights home. For a few days that was all the tree had, but it was still beautiful. Then I made some star ornaments!
I was inspired by this post on Pinterest, but I had to work with what I had. The background of the stars is from the red boxes the Christmas lights came in.
Can you guess from the big "CL" star which old newspaper I used for the front? I love this one with a man holding a guitar. These aren't as cutesie as the pretty ones in the link, but they are unique and I will always have them to remind me of this Christmas.
Next was a Trader Joe bag garland.
Trader Joe's rocks. The patterns on the strips are adorable, but I wanted some color. That's when I broke out the glitter. Our apartment has been covered in glitter for about a week now :)
The finished product! Pretty cute.
While I was making the garland I found all the shells from my most recent Fripp trip, so I grabbed some with the natural holes in them, added some glitter, and looped through some string. Also, they didn't have any ornament hooks at Fred Meyer so we bought paper clips instead. Pretty much the same thing.
This fabric flower I made hadn't found a home yet so it's a temporary ornament :) Tom's mom sent us two ornaments as well! How funny is the frog on a sled! I love ornaments.
Finally, Tom and I popped some popcorn to string. (The old fashioned way of course, we don't own a microwave. By choice.) Can you tell what movie we were watching while we worked? :)
Thanks Gee Gee for the sewing kit! I promise this isn't the only thing it's been used for...
Unfortunately we had a few problems with tangled thread, and we didn't make enough strands to wrap around the whole tree. I still haven't popped more to finish it. I will though, because the top of the tree looks ridiculous.
Thanks to our parents for sending a few gifts! We wouldn't have any presents under the tree if we didn't have such wonderful families.
This lovely tree is the only thing in our apartment right now that counts as a Christmas decoration. Oh, and this stocking (mitten?) that holds a big bag of peanut M&Ms! Another gift from Tom's mom :) And yes, of course we have already eaten most of the bag.
There is a whole board on my Pinterest devoted to Christmas DIY projects, but unfortunately my materials are pretty limited and glue and glitter only go so far. I love our tree though, and Tom and I had a lot of fun making the ornaments together. This Christmas has definitely been very different from what I'm used to, but different is good.
Quick job update before I go. Oh yeah, I HAVE ONE. Yesterday afternoon was devoted to handing out resumes at every restaurant, coffee shop, deli, or shop that served food, on SE Division Street. Wafu is on Division, in a building between two other restaurants. Running into the manager from Wafu was the last thing I wanted to happen after I had just been turned down for the job, but I had to walk by there to hand out a resume next door. He almost ran into me coming out of the restaurant. We talked for a few minutes about my job hunt and he gave me some names of managers and recommended some restaurants to call. He was so friendly and helpful, I ended up feeling great about running into him.
An hour later he left me a voice mail and sent me an email saying he had a food runner position that unexpectedly opened up! It is only three nights a week, but damn it, it's a job! It's a foot in the door. And I start tomorrow :) I'm still going to keep looking for a second job, maybe a place I only work brunch. Food running is not the serving position I wanted, but I was handing out resumes at coffee shops at this point. With my experience it's highly unlikely that I'll have to stay in that position for long, so I'm okay with it for now. Tom and I are so happy I'm finally going to be contributing!
Everything happens for a reason, if I hadn't run into him yesterday I probably wouldn't be going to work tomorrow. God is good.
Merry December 21st!
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