Cell phone snag of the holiday decor at chez susan which includes a fun assignment

[susan]

The entire decor this year (including all of the gifts!) rests in this photo, uploaded from my cell phone. The snazzy, ginormous shadow on the wall was to accentuate how important the decor is. The lighting used to achieve this wonderful affect was with my husband's cell phone app flashlight at 60% -- Just the right amount of light to do what I wanted to do. (Just to add, the corner is pretty dark.) Please, feel free to add your holiday decor to this thread - but - two rules - photo(s) must be taken with your cell phone and no post processing. Hope to see lots of pretty things here!

[susan]

Oh! I just spotted my husbands arm shadow! Do you see it too?

[theantiquetiger]

I misread the instructions at first. I thought you wanted us to add decorations to your tree. I was gonna add "Elf on a Shelf" to the bottom of your tree. I'm at work, so I will take pics with my phone in the morning.

[Matt K.]

ya just gotta love minimalism ....

[theantiquetiger]

We (or actually my wife) go just the opposite of your "Charlie Brown" tree (which I love BTW). I would add pictures of outside, but it is storming today

Mantle


The tree


Dining Room


Entrance Hall


and my LSU tree in the den

[susan]

I misread the instructions at first. I thought you wanted us to add decorations to your tree. I was gonna add "Elf on a Shelf" to the bottom of your tree. I'm at work, so I will take pics with my phone in the morning.

Do it! Add Elf on the shelf! Too cute!

[susan]

We (or actually my wife) go just the opposite of your "Charlie Brown" tree (which I love BTW). I would add pictures of outside, but it is storming today

Mantle


The tree


Dining Room


Entrance Hall


and my LSU tree in the den

Beautiful home! A very festive one too! Love the "Christmas Story" leg lamp! Goes with my lil' Chuck Brown tree ... LOL Thanks for playing along!

[susan]

ya just gotta love minimalism ....

It's depression, actually. I used to go over the top like Antiquetiger- donated it all to the Discovery Shop. (Akin to Goodwill but proceeds go towards cancer research.) This little tree has been used for 3 Christmases now. For the past many years, we only gift our grandchildren a little something then use the rest of what we would have spent on a needy family. We send our gift anonymously. The family this year was a single mom and her two small children who had to abandon their rental home - they had gotten quite ill, a "mystery" illness. Turns out, the house was full of black mold.

[theantiquetiger]

Beautiful home! A very festive one too! Love the "Christmas Story" leg lamp! Goes with my lil' Chuck Brown tree ... LOL Thanks for playing along!

Thank you!!! My wife wants to do "grown up" decorations, with grown up, high dollar tree etc, but I won't let her. We have two small ones 8 & 5. I told her when they stop believing in Santa, she could do it. It's my master plan. When they stop believing in Santa, she won't want to decorate the house anyway, saving me $1000's in the decorations she wants to do. LOL

[JAS_Photo]

A small wreath on my door. Taken with the retro camera app.