Today’s blog is about a little Farmhouse Magic and setting up a Christmas tree in the historic farmhouse.
We only use an artificial tree in our farmhouse’s living area so there is no chance of water spills on the floor and for easy cleanup.
Christmas Tree and a Little Farmhouse Magic
This year, it takes two volunteers and one employee to set up the first small holiday tree. Both volunteers happened to be at the farmhouse on that particular day and offered to help with the project.
In past years, this faux Christmas tree has always been a little troublesome. For some reason, it did not come with a matching tree stand. We had to make due with an old green and red metal tree stand. Unfortunately, the faux tree’s lower end never fit into this stand no matter how we adjusted it.
To set the tree up, one person would hold it up while the other two tightened the screws at the same time. As things would go, one or two screws would never touch the base of the tree so it would lean to one side. Then, we added a few wooden blocks to the base to keep it standing up straight.
More Troubles
However, this was the first time we had to get a piece of twine and tie the top of the tree to the room’s light fixture to keep it up. Even then it was unstable.
I guess the last straw, is when a couple of the lower branches fell off of the tree. We tried to tape the branches back on with little success.
So, this tree was present for one day of viewing, when it was deemed too unstable and taken down.
A Little Farmhouse House Magic
The farm receives quite a few donated lights, garland and holiday decorations. Mainly, people update things at their home and rather than tossing old decorations out, they might bring them to the farm.
So, as good luck would have it, after checking out the donation stash, a perfect artificial tree was found for the farmhouse.
And, with a little farmhouse magic, the recycled tree was quickly put up. Note, it came with its own stand. We put on the electric lights and then the artificial popcorn strands. Lastly, a few holiday bulbs were added. The back of tree is only sparsely decorated since only the docents see that side.
A little patchwork quilt covers the base and then presents wrapped and tied with twine are placed under the tree.
Then the decorated farmhouse with the Christmas tree is ready to be viewed by next 100 or more visitors to the farm.
Popular Christmas Farmhouse tours are always free, too.
For Your Information: Children on our tours are always interested in the wrapped presents under the tree, but for the record, the presents are just empty wrapped boxes.
Please note that none of the today’s blog photographs are taken at the historic farmhouse or on the farm.