Have you ever heard the expression “The way you do Anything is the way you do Everything?” A speaker once said that in a seminar. And decorating my tree this year, I saw something about my personality that seemed as clear as day once it was finished.
I would never have allowed this to happen before I started decorating for a living, but I spend so much of my life shopping, sourcing, for my clients and their homes, I just don’t have the same creative energy to do it for myself these days. Prior to my career in design, I would spend all day decorating the dinner table for my guests (just like Martha). Now my guests are lucky to get a napkin.
Anyway, back to my tree saga. My slightly crooked tree--on Friday afternoon--came crashing down!
So Saturday, finally, after about 45 minutes, I got it to stand up straight, and then I stuck all the decorations back on it. Then I stood back to look at it, and do you know what my tree looks like? It's perfect (well not like I am or anything). It’s been pruned and trimmed perfectly, the decorations are spaced perfectly, it’s downright boring. In fact, it looks like a ‘tightly wrapped’ person decorated it.
Then I watched a terrible ‘made for TV’ Christmas movie last night and I just loved the tree in the characters apartment. It looked so casual, whimsical and playful--almost sexy (if that’s possible for a tree to be, just like the one below) and I realized I’ve always wanted my tree to look like that!
And maybe it’s because I’d like to be a little less literal about things, more playful, less serious and a little less ‘tightly wrapped’ (like this one too).
Well what do you think of my theory? Do you think your Christmas tree is you? Next year, that’s what mine will look like and then maybe I’ll even take a picture of it and post it!
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