The Santa Tree

Our community is hosting a live auction this weekend to assist Big Brothers/Big Sisters. The project is designing a Christmas tree and then letting it be auctioned off at a local craft fair, with proceeds going to BB/BS.

Two little elves in [Marilyn’s] office gladly jumped on this project!

Tiffini and Marilyn excitedly went to the shopping palace in town: Walmart! There we jingled our way up and down the aisles that were laden with new Christmas ornaments! As we gave consideration to what theme our tree would be, our heads were full of lollipops and sugarplums! As Christmas tunes played over our heads, we slowly gathered our thoughts and re-focused on the project at hand!

We picked out our tree first: a white, pre-lit 5-foot Christmas tree. We then looked at all the new ornaments hanging on the display racks and decided to go with a Santa Claus theme.

As we packed our sleigh with ornaments of all sizes and shapes, we felt the Christmas spirit rise inside us! We found ornaments that were painted like Santa’s tummy, complete with a big black belt! We found red and white frosted garland, and red and white ornaments, as well as a red cozy hat for the tree topper!

Elf Tiff came up with a plan for covering the legs of the tree stand: two pair of SIZE 9 WOMEN’S BOOTS!

The reindeer flew us back to the office, where we assembled the little white tree. As we added more and more ornaments to our tree, passersby would stop and ask us why we had started decorating so early! We also got comments on why we chose a white tree.

When it came time to put the boots on the little tree, we put our heads together and came up with a great plan: we cut the boots open in the back so that they’d slide on the legs easily. We hot-glued them back together and then made cute red ribbon decorations to http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifglue across the tops of the boots. Red bows were then glued onto the sides of the boots, complete with some tiny jingle bells!

The little white Santa Claus tree is now sitting pretty inside the front door of the office, waiting for the trek across the street on Saturday. That afternoon, she’ll be auctioned off with the proceeds benefiting a good charity.

Update: The Santa Tree brought the most at the auction.