Note to everyone

Do not let me near Hobby Lobby ever again. At least not when there are sales. For god's sake, I walked out with (retail) $90 worth of Christmas decorations! Granted, they were 50% off, so I spent $44.50, but still!

So, the thing is, yesterday I went to Target and bought the dog his own Christmas stocking. I saw it, it was cute, I wanted one for the dog, and okay, it's a Dale Earnhardt Jr. stocking. (Let me tell you, the number of people salivating over it at the counter was just...I actually was warned to hold onto it tightly by the clerk. Because it was the last one.)

At Hobby Lobby I was looking for a tree skirt (since they were on sale). I found a lovely one (with nothing for Chester to chew off, a color that wouldn't show his fur so badly, and without the cutesy wootsy crap that I can't stand) that's a red skirt, with black and white dalmation print trim around the edge. (I really wanted the black velvet one, but alas, dog has light fur.)

And then, because my tree topper is burghandy and gold, I had to get a new topper. Hence the big gold star in a funky design. And *then*, because I realized the black and white and red would match Junior, I had to get ornaments. I found the only good set of black glass balls, and some black glittery balls, tons of red balls, and some white balls. (I have gold ornaments already, so on that I'm set.) Then I found a string of black and white beads. And a black and white metal car ornament. Hee! Racing tree!

So, um, I went overboard with the Christmas stuff. This is what Hobby Lobby does to me.

Keep in mind that I went home and had to fight against putting the tree up right then.