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Yesterday I got creative and came up with an inexpensive holiday decorating idea. We got our Christmas tree this weekend and needed to trim some of the lower branches.  We decorated the tree and had some extra white lights.  Our mantle was sorely lacking in holiday cheer so I threw some extra white tree lights up there but it still looked pretty bare.   So, I took some of the small branches that I trimmed off of the tree, tied some raffia around them to hold them together and placed them at the ends of the mantle.  Then I took some pine cones and put them up next to them and voila!  Instant, cheap holiday decoration!  If you’re looking for flashy, this is not it but it is a very natural and understated look.

All of this took only a few minutes (with or without the MORE COFFEE PLEASE but it’s really alot faster with it)!  Now hopefully it won’t be kindling by the time Christmas rolls around…