Festival of Trees

This year, we went to Festival of Trees like always. For some reason, it seemed Extra PACKED this year. I don’t know what was going on, but like, I almost couldn’t see many trees, my heck. But there were many awesome trees, and there were at least 12 Frozen trees. There could have been more, but we skipped a few rows that were too busy to make it down. But here are favorites:

People are so clever! I think I ate my weight in popcorn, but it was so delicious, I just couldn’t pass it up.

Festival of Trees 2013

I only realized a few weeks ago that it was the week of Festival of Trees, and it was ending today. So of course, I made plans to go there. The weather did try it’s darndest to stop me, but nothing could stop me. I was planning on going up in the early afternoon. RSL was playing Kansas City in the MLS Cup, and I was jazzed and ready. The game started at 2:00, so it would be over around 4:00. That’s not exactly how it went. Started at 2:00, didn’t really start at 2:25, and then it had a thirty minute overtime when we were tied 1-1 at the end. After the overtime we were still tied, and went into a shootout. After 2 shootouts, we lost the game, and it was just sad. So the game instead ended at 5:30. Then, the trip from my house in Orem to my SIL’s house in Provo took about 1 hour because of all the snow that has been dumped on us.

Finally we made it there after about an hour. We made it in, and it was all as glorious as it always is. We walked, ate a snack, walked, and ate a snack, walked around. I saw some really great trees, and I’ll share those.

There was one tree that I was really impressed with:

You can’t tell, but that tree is made out of soda rings. And the ornaments are made out of soda cans. I just couldn’t believe it when I saw it. That takes some serious preparation. I hope to maybe decorate a tree next year. I’ll start brainstorming now!

Festival!

It’s that time of the year again – Festival of Trees! Sadly, this year, we didn’t have the time to decorate a tree for it, but I wanted to go nonetheless.

The trees were lovely as always, and I was sad to note that a good bit of them weren’t sold this year. I don’t know why they weren’t, but I hopefully they were sold by the end. I made the rounds of the whole place, the mini-trees, the slightly bigger trees, and finally ending with the 6-8 footers. They were all looking good, and of course, there were some themes that kept popping up. It’s always interesting to see how different people come up with different trees based on the same idea, but that’s the joy of Christmas trees. They’re all different and unique, while all embodying the same ideas.

I was glad that I went, and even gladder I left with my annual gingerbread cookie – delicious! Now it seems like the Christmas season can start – traditions are already underway!

Festival o' Trees

The Festival of Trees was good this year, yet again. I don't really have anything new to report, or any good stories, just thought I'd post some pictures of mine and PJ's awesome tree we decorated-which sold on the opening night in auction! Awesome!

It was very festive

So, we went to Festival of Trees this weekend, like so many of the people in this fair state. We got free tickets since we donated the tree. That wasn't the only reason we went, we would have gone otherwise, but yippee for free! We got there at some point in the afternoon, and even though it was busy, it wasn't crazy packed. The parking lot was insane, we only managed to get a spot because some nice woman showed us where she had just left a spot open. I wish I could have said thank you to her! We got in and went through the small trees first, there were some nice ones there. The thing I was most excited to see, was that our tree had sold. I was sure that it would, but of course, I was worrying a little. But some lucky duck had snapped it up, good for him.
We were going through the big trees, working our way back from the end of the alphabet, and after a while, I was sick of looking at trees. I was sure we must have been almost finished, so I looked at the aisle we were in. It was only the M's! We were only halfway finished! I don't know why it felt so long, but oh my goodness. I guess my adage this year was 'if you've seen one tree, you've seen 'em all'. There were some awesome trees there-I didn't take pictures of any because it seemed like too much work to get the camera out, and stop to take the pictures. I do think its funny that a lot of people thought of the same theme for their trees. There were definitely a lot of Twilight trees this year, holy crap. And a lot of U of U trees.
I liked it this year, I just guess I might not have been in the mood. I would post pics of our tree, but I'm sure everyone that reads this has already seen it, plus I'm too lazy right now to go get the camera and the cable, and hook it up, and blah blah blah. But good times for a Saturday, and it just makes me get into the holiday spirit even more!

The secret is out

Ok, the other day, I blogged about how PJ and I thought of a theme for something that was going to come to pass. Since it all starts tomorrow (well, open to the public anyway) I decided to make it known here and now. PJ and I decorated a tree for the Festival of Trees this year. It was a total split decision, we had talked about it for a little, but then one day, I got an email from PJ about it, and we just jumped on it. It took a while to get a theme and work out our ideas, but once we thought of it, ideas flowed. We only had two weeks-but really, only like, two Saturdays, so we had to pull things together quickly.
We had a dry run to see how long it would take to put the tree together, so we would know how long it would take us on Monday, since there was a time limit. We had only just gotten started when PJ picked up an ornament, and shattered it in her hand. It cut her pretty deep and bled like crazy, but we got it under control. We had decorated the tree, and were about to work on the tree skirt when we ran out of a key material, so we had to quickly run to the craft store before it closed. Luckily, we did. We got everything finished that night, and were pretty confident about our Monday chances.
We finally decorated it at the Festival on Monday. I broke an ornament during the decorating, but luckily, didn't cut myself or anyone else. It looked pretty good when we were done, and it only took us a few hours. The theme we picked was to have a ribbon tree, but I won't include pictures-for now at least. I want everyone to go see it-if possible. I'll probably post some pics of it on Saturday, after we've been to the Festival ourselves, to see all of them. It was a great thing to do, and I'm already looking forward to doing one next year. We already have our theme!