Or
so I think.
Last
night, my wife and I went to a Christmas open house at a nearby gift shop. We’re friends with the owners. They featured some hors d’oeuvres and hot
cider for customers. Very tasteful
holiday music played in the background.
Different areas of the store featured beautiful tree themes and lovely
gifts were everywhere to be seen.
Then
my sight fell on a centerpiece for a Christmas table. It was beautiful. But when I saw the price, I thought, “I can do that—and for cheap!”
So
here’s what I’m working on for my I’m a Guy Christmas Projects. I have a lot of ideas—so here are a couple of
them.
How
about the Christmas centerpiece
? The one I saw was cone-shaped and had
life-like plastic cranberries from the base to the point on top. I don’t want plastic. I don’t want Styrofoam—too expensive. I thought first about taking a cardboard
paper towel tube and mashing it into shape.
Won’t work. No, I’m gonna’ take
an old oil funnel out of my auto supplies.
Oh—I’ll clean it up so that it’s nice and silvery-looking. Then I’ll get some little Christmas ornaments
at the dollar store and glue ‘em on tight, maybe some red and green ones
alternating. Beautiful!
Or
how about my I’m a Guy Christmas sno-globe?
I’ll take one of the empty plastic cartons from our supply of juice
bottles and saw off the bottom half.
Then I’ll go down to the beach a couple of blocks from here and see what
wood the tide brought in. I’ll get out
my hacksaw and cut it so that the bottle bottom fits. Then I’ll shred all those little plastic
cards we get from credit card offers and I’ll run ‘em through the
shredder. They’ll be so colorful! Then I’ll fill the bottle bottom with water,
put in the bits of fake credit cards, and clue on the wood. And there’s my I’m a Guy Christmas Sno-Globe.
Yep—I’ll
let you know how it’s all working out….
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