Mulberry christmas tree

Mulberry Christmas tree

It seems hard to fathom, but Christmas is less than six weeks away. With a newborn, I don’t think I’ll be decking every hall in our home this year, so I wanted to really pack a punch with the decorating I did get to. Last Christmas I put up a white tree in the kids’ playroom we were renovating the library and living in construction dust throughout the main areas of the house and the year prior I had a small, live tree we had just moved into the house. I’ve been really loving a more…

Every year my husband and I create our own Christmas tree from random materials. This year our tree floats! We used reflective foam insulation to create 3d snowflakes in different sizes.

Background pattern - an out-of-focus, lighted Christmas tree. View LARGER -- you'll love the various circle of light patterns! Bokeh is "...the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light". (This term originated in 1997 from the Japanese phrase "boke-aji", which means "blur quality".) I'm thinking of getting the new Bokeh Photoshop plugin from Alien Skin that helps you create fake bokeh camera lens blurs -- not just the simple Gaussian blurs that we normally do in PS. Imagine being…