Christmas Decor

I'm spending the day finally getting all the Christmas decorations taken down...so I thought it appropriate to finally post a pic of our decor! 

Our new Christmas tree!  I was so excited to get a bigger tree this year.  Our other tree- the one we bought our first Christmas together was only 5 feet tall and it looked really puny in our basement.  I wanted a new one last year but had too many other things to worry about at the time (Tate) so we didn't mess with it.  But this year, I finally did something about it.  Found this tree on Craigslist for $45.  Pretty good deal when you look at the store and trees cost $500 and up!  Ridiculous.  It's a 7 foot tree and has a 5 foot radius at the bottom.  So it's huge!  Since we had a new tree I decided to try it upstairs this year instead of down.  It was a tight squeeze but it worked.  The other decor I already had and notice my nativity set on the fireplace! 

I HATE wrapping presents.  I'm not any good at it, I always mismeasure and have to do it again, the corners are messy and bows just don't happen unless they're the stick on kind.  So this year I went to something different - fabric bags.  I loved it.  No more wrapping paper for me - ever!  I bought Christmas fabric on sale at JoAnn's in several different patterns and then just sewed different size bags together.  Tied them with Christmas ribbon, stuck a name tag on them and wa-laa!  Wrapping done.  This year was more work since I had to make the bags (although it wasn't hard to do - just cut on the fold and then sew down the two sides, flip right side out and you're done) but next year will be even easier since they're all made.  And they looked cute under the tree too!