BUT...
Get ready to be even more impressed with me than usual!
Christmas.
Let's talk about that.
We haul out all of our stuff, decorate our houses, make a bunch of food for a bunch of people, sing and be joyful and then put all of our stuff back, right?
Am I right?
Okay.
Yeah. That was a rhetorical question. I know I am.
So.
I'm thinking next year I'm going to change things up.
Next year I'm going with self-undecorating Christmas decorations...
...made of food!
Think of it!
Not just candy garlands and trees!
Tinsel made of cooked spaghetti!
Marshmallow snowmen surrounded by a sparkling field of cottage cheese!
A meat Christmas tree!
Tree skirts could be made of fruit leather, centerpieces green beans, carrots and apples!
Can't you picture it now?
Guests would come to visit and you could simply hug them, direct them to a big pile of Christmas paper plates and napkins by the front door and invite them to graze.
No muss.
No fuss.
Oh sure, by Christmas Eve things would look a little ragged but you could just add a little more rum to the eggnog and nobody would even notice that someone picked all the bacon off the Christmas tree.
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I can tell by your silence you love this idea!
I'm so pleased I could impress and amaze you with my genius!
And because I love you, man, I'm giving you these ideas absolutely free...at no charge whatsoever.
Because I'm cool like that.
And because it's Christmas.
And, hey...
That's what blog friends are for.
Sigh...
Once again...a much needed giggle first thing this morning! LOL!
ReplyDeleteYoure a nut! tgif and have a great weekend!
ReplyDeletexoxo
nothing says Christmas more than a tree decked in sausage. thanks for the laugh.
ReplyDeleteI love you too, man, but I'm thinking this creative decorating plan may need just a little more thought.
ReplyDeletelol seriously at the sausage tree
ReplyDeleteHey - I've missed you girl
A meat tree!? I love it, at least the bacon part as long as it is crispy. I may have to use a clothespin rather than a pick so it won't crumble. Good idea.
ReplyDeleteJenny I think you are on to something here... :) thanks for the smile! love ya, Linda
ReplyDeleteYou are soooo funny cousin!!
ReplyDeleteGiggle....nothing says Christmas like coming to Jenny's and "grazing"!
ReplyDeleteI have an idea, too. Let's just skip Christmas altogether. No muss, no fuss. Okay, there's a little fuss, but only by the ones who love the holidays, even if I am outnumbered.
ReplyDeleteahem...I've heard that there's a fine line between genius and insanity. Me thinks you may be straddling that line! But I love it and love you and look forward to grazing upon the spaghetti tinsel. I'll pass on the meat tree but thanks anyway!
ReplyDeleteOh now I know for sure, Jenny you do have the most perfect answer ever to Everything a girl really needs to know! Yes!.... Although,(always a but) I'm not so sure (given the animals that live, lying in wait of FOOD) at my house, and I haven't even included any humans to this situation...but!!! I fear (especially the meat tree) will not survive a day! Oh no! Guess I'll have to think this over so more!
ReplyDeleteI can do you 2 better...next year, go somewhere over Christmas that is already decorated or pay someone to put up all our decorations and then take them down after New Year. Can't you tell I'm a bit tired already ?
ReplyDeleteAs for food as decor, if I visit you over the holidays next year, I'll be sure to eat BEFORE I visit !!!
Bacon.
ReplyDeleteI...I ...uh ..I think I'm a little worried about you.I think you are having Lime green Le Creuset withdraws!!~Ames
ReplyDeleteoh my oh my! My kind of decorations...you don't even need to recycle them!! You're a funny one, Mrs. Jenny.
ReplyDeleteYou ARE a genius, I already knew that! If I am coming to your house... I want to come AS SOON as you put the food decorations out:) Just sayin' Have a happy weekend dear Jenny, HUGS!
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking that you have come up with a great idea. and you could totally have a fire going in the fireplace so they can cook their meat over the flame. You're welcome.
ReplyDeleteYou house would become a very popular place to visit if you had such yummy decorations, Jenny! lol!
ReplyDeleteNothing says "Christmas" like eating bacon with a hint of pine needles!
ReplyDeleteBacon on the tree...like that idea.
ReplyDeletePlease be sure there is extra bacon decorations...I'll be there.
Peace and love,
Siggi in Downeast Maine
Sardines, Jenny. You forgot to find a way to decorate with some nice, shiny sardines.
ReplyDeleteI should tell you that my DIL had some lovely macaroni decorations that the little ones made last year. When she went up to take them from the attic she found that mice had eaten through the box and there wasn't a scrap of decoration left - just a whole lot of evidence of mice activity (I'm sure you get the picture!)...you might not want to store any of this for another year!
I think I am going to barf. That was one of the nastiest thoughts I have ever read through, marshmallow snowmen sitting in a field of cottage cheese? Really Jenny? Couldn't it have just been a dusting of powdered sugar? Spagetti tinsel hanging from the tree? I would much prefer taffy pulled ever so thin...and instead of a meat tree with rotting bacon and ham I would use apples, oranges to decorate my tree and top it off with a beautiful pineapple straight from Lanai. My centerpieces? Beautiful breads and the wreath on the front door? Peanut butter and seeds for the birds...um, well...that might not be such a good idea on the front door...
ReplyDeletethanks for the giggle!
And when it starts to smell, you can throw it out into the desert for the javelinas and coyotes! Brilliant!!
ReplyDeleteYa got me rollin' here girl! Heeehehehehe!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou are a blast!
God bless and have a fantastic weekend!!!
Ummmmmmm-No.
ReplyDeleteTake more time to think this one out! :) :) :)
Melinda