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Subscribe by email to receive free posts straight to your inbox, or follow along using any (or all!)of the methods below!My friends, I have never owned a tree skirt.

I’ve always just bunched up a length of whatever fabric I could find that looked good or a table cloth into a sort of fluffy tree-base cloud.It’s always been fine, especially because it usually lasts about 5 days until it’s all covered by presents anyway..This year though, the time was right for a real tree skirt.

I wasn’t in the mood for spending  $60 on something that was going to be too small and not really my style anyway, but I. was.in the mood to have it at least be round in shape.. A-ha!

What about a round tablecloth?

What about a round plaid table cloth that sort of looks like a cozy warm wool blanket?.you that were taken just a week before.

The shrubs need trimming, the siding needs a good power wash, but aren’t those little flowers on the maple trees pretty?.These purple crocuses are out now along with the white ones.. More trimming needed here I see!.

This lilac bush is starting to fill in nicely.Chris decided to rip out this fence around the back of the house last weekend so we can have this big sloping lawn.