Farmhouse Christmas Tree 2016- The Candy Cane Forest

 As I mentioned in our Christmas mantel reveal I tried to limit digging thru our holiday bins this year. I used mostly what I had collected over the past few months which was Ric-Rac Ribbon and Jingle Bell Garland. I placed it on the tree and decided that I was going to take it all off and start over because I was not loving it. One morning before school Littlest said hey mom I really like the tree. I was like what!? I told him I was not feeling it and he said well I love it mom. That started the quest of me completing the tree that I had started.

After Littlest declared his love I looked around to see what else I could work with. I had a bag of batting so I decided to try it out as snow. He has always wanted a flocked tree so I figured this was as close as he was going to get to a flocked tree this year.

The tree still was not calling to me but my bag of bottle brush trees was.

I placed them thru out the tree on the batting but the tree still needed more and then it dawned on me.

 “I passed through the seven levels of the Candy Cane Forest, through the sea of swirly twirly gum drops, and then I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel.” - Elf

Elf is one of our favorite holiday movies!

I went and dug through a bin that I knew held the DIY candy canes from a few years back and we had The Candy Cane Forest!

 Our tree is a Balsam Hill Silverado Slim which came pre-lit.  I could not resist adding some twinkling lights to it as well. No tree is complete without some twinkling lights! The tree looks pretty magical in person because some of the twinkling lights lay underneath the snow so the snow lights up.  

So there ya have our 2016 Christmas tree.

Source List-

Tree-Balsam Hill

Ric Rac Ribbon/Jingle Bell Garland-Michaels

Bottle Brush Trees- Collected over the years

Pipe Cleaner Candy Canes- DIY

Capiz Shell Star- Lowes

Tree Skirt- Lowes

Chalkboard Sign-HomeGoods

This weekend we need to fix a few things outside and then I will snap pics of our Christmas porch. We put wreaths up last weekend on the upper windows of the house and they fell off and are laying on the roof. Grrr. I should probably just take pics as it and call it a keeping it real reveal!LOL. 

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