Sorry to be button in....but I came across this picture of a gift a friend made for a Christmas gift to us. But, your thread is about "trees".
It's fine. I like it. Just the way it is. If I put up a tree, I'd make ornaments. (Should get a smaller tree) Will decorate the staircase banister this year instead. It brightens up the whole downstairs and the upstairs hall that way. Have you started decorating for Christmas? Several houses here have outdoor light up already.
Faye, theoretically, that sounds like a good thing to do. May I bring her to your house and let you try? It would be difficult to separate violent total body squirming, from reaction to pain. There may be pain just to hold her still, but not in the mouth. She had an antibiotic injection a week ago that is supposed to last 14 days. (I don't believe that for one minute. But maybe a week.) You may be right. Might be better if all molars were gone. It just looks from the video like she's trying to remove a foreign object from the roof of her mouth. Yesterday she liked Gerber baby food --- ham and gravy. Nothing so far today.
No outdoor lighting, just wreaths... and candelabra & a star in the front window. We decorate gradually and undecorate the same way. Small, pencil artificial tree the past few years. Still play the Christmas LPs, that we enjoy so much.
Playing around with button strings. Top, left and center. Can't figure out how to string 2 or 3 wide and make them lay flat. Looks like they may have to be sewed on a strip of cloth. The bottom chain makes a pretty necklace. But who wears a necklace? I can't remember wearing one since high school. Did you know 6 circles circumscribe a circle of the same radius perfectly? I didn't.
In order to get in the spirit of Thanksgiving, I watched a 28-minute video last night on How to Roast a Turkey, with Julia Child. I tried to roast a turkey once in 1973, and would rather not talk about it. But I have eaten Thanksgiving dinner at a Holiday Inn Express (or the equivalent). Will probably have the Tombstone pizza in the freezer, play with the faucets, then go look for some cedar trees to dig up. I've only been able to get 5 so far. Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving day!
If you have a good speckled (or other) roasting pan that your turkey will fit into, take all the stuff out of your turkey--the neck in the body cavity and whatever the heck is under the flap of skin where the neck once was, and throw it in the pan, put the cover on and stick it in the oven at 350 degrees, one hour for each 4 pounds. These days they inject the bird with stuff that should keep it moist and some have a little, red pop up thing that tells when it is done. The gravy is actually the hardest part. Get a whisk. Make the stuffing on the stove with broth, chopped onions and celery. But then, they will never publish my cook book or put me on tv.
The problem was, no one in my small (3) immediate family ever liked turkey. My father hated it. I think I remember my mother cooking it once, only because I can picture the leftovers in a roasting pan lasting forever. Maybe no one knew how to cook it well.
If you are going to put them on a strip of cloth use your glue gun. Dab a little on each button as you place them in position. It would be a lot easier to remove. That's how I would do it. No guarantees though.
My Aunt and Uncle lived a few blocks away. They never had children, so she prepared the turkey. They would give the turkey a ride to our house. My Mother would do everything else and when they came and "escorted" that turkey into the house....to be kept warm in our oven, the smells of the turkey filled the kitchen. Gram lived with them and she was the guest of honor! It was such a happy time for us four kids.
That sounds nice. The only kids were your brothers and sisters? I liked the smell of the yeast rolls baking. Everyone at our dinners lived within 2 miles of each other, so it wasn't like a reunion, but it was still fun, except we all had to dress up. Our dinners were almost always for 14. My mother's 3 siblings and their spouses, 5 cousins and both grandparents. Always at my grandmother's house. She had a big dining room and table that must have seated 10. And there was the kids table in the kitchen which seated 4. One cousin was 9 years older and had to eat with the grown ups. The last dinner before I left home was at my aunt's house because it became too much work for my grandmother. It just wasn't the same. I think they should have figured out a way to still have it at my grandparents' house, without making her do any work, for lots of reasons. Good memories.
You mean the glue sticks to something as flexible, as cloth? I didn't know that. Don't have a glue gun yet. The curtain ties wouldn't look good. I tried them various ways. Nothing is jumping out at me that I want to do with these. I'll let it sit in the back of my mind for a while. Something will come to mind.
Why wouldn't the ties work? Coordinating strips of fabric with the buttons and just add some matching fabric for the ties or use velco. My glue gun is my go to if I want to keep something in place.
(11/23/23) Thanksgiving Day. Sunny, high 57, no wind, perfect for working outdoors. I brought home 10 more little cedar trees. Two are really nice, about 2 feet tall. I kept finding more of them and nicer ones, but only had 3 buckets with me. I may go back soon and get about 20 more. Plant them twice as thick, or double them up, and remove those that don't do well later. There are bushels of black walnuts on the ground out there. I bought some shelled walnuts at Kroger about a month ago. It just said "walnuts." They were no doubt English walnuts, but they had no taste at all. I just want enough to make one small batch of chocolate or vanilla fudge. Maybe a cup? How hard can that be? Finally got both faucets to shut off in that bathroom. The one that dripped does not drip now, and the handles are correct. The other one now has the semaphore handle setup because the old hot cartridge on that one was too worn out to put back. I'll order both hot and cold for it to be safe. There is finally a light at the end of the tunnel. Famous last words? Will try to get those trees planted today.