Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Preparing for Christmas a.k.a. "Decorating on the Cheap"

In preparation for the holidays, we purchased a 4 ft. Christmas tree at Lulu Hypermarket for a whopping 39 dirhams.  Add to that a couple of boxes of ornaments (6 dirhams total), lights (16 dirhams), and a tree topper (9 dirhams) and you have our $20 Christmas tree.

H and E set up the tree the day after Thanksgiving.





The final product:



Stockings brought from home (the only Christmas related things we packed):



Close ups of our cheap foil ornaments:






A lot of these broke so if you look closely at the picture of the tree you can see lots of these little "presents" sitting at the base...



Our only "real" ornament and it's not even a real ornament.  It used to be one of H's toys that broke but will now be part of our ornament collection.




I'll post pictures of our Christmas celebration after Friday.  Santa is treating H pretty well this year...all the presents under the tree are for him!  E and I are treating ourselves to a family trip to Paris instead. : )
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  1. Anne-Claire WackenhutDecember 24, 2009 at 9:17 PM

    I had a good laugh looking back at the "mini presents" under the tree, after reading about their demise... Also, sad about Guido the Gondolier (or whatever we'd named him), but he looks good in his second life as an ornament. Merry Christmas!

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