Every year my friend Georgann and I decorate a tree for a charity tree auction. Our theme this year was Chinese. We bought lots of red and gold items in Chinatown all year.
There were pink and red paper parasols and Georgann strung old mah-jongg tiles on red ribbons.
We always like to see what other volunteers have done (collecting ideas for our sketchbook, so to speak.) We saw a lot of feathers in trees this year. This red feather boa diffuses the light in strange ways.
We liked this idea of ribbons threaded with beads---anything to do with fabric.
I also go look at the big time---San Francisco in December.
Macy's on Union Square has some wonderful trees.
Upside down.
A snowy tree covered with creatures that live in cold climates
The store windows are always festive.
Sephora did a lot of curled paper
A star of blue jeans from The Gap
And metallic ribbon threaded through string at Anthropologie.
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4 comments:
Beautiful christmas photos, wonderful place to visit.
I was thinking of ways to make ribbon candy as bowl fillers and that photo made me realize, wired ribbon, duh.
Debbie
Great job on the Chinese tree. The windows in SF are always interesting!
Beautiful pics.....the first time I saw an upside-down tree I was floored! It was genius! It was at a retail shop, and how easy it was to pick off ornaments you wanted to purchase! Each ornament was hanging away from the tree, so you could really see it! Yep....genius!
Curled paper is called quilling.
A very old art form, if you ever get to the Boston fine arts museum they have plenty of beautiful examples.
Happy sewing and Happy 2012
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