Drew's Christmas Wonderland
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Welcome to Drew's Christmas Wonderland! My name is Drew Bacon, and I have such a fascination with Christmas that my friends call me Santa Bacon! I made this website for other Christmas lovers, to share my Christmas thoughts and dreams! If you'd like to send a shout out to me, zap me an email.
I’m a passionate decorator. Some say I must have been a decorating catalog in a past life, or even a decorating school! But I say, how can a person have been a catalog or a school in a past life. I don’t think that makes much sense. Anyway, on this website I’m going to share a few “secrets” I’ve discovered about Christmas decorating. First, I like to keep my house decorated for Christmas the entire year. Sometimes, when I have nothing else to do, I even dress up as an elf and play like I’m living up north in Santa’s workshop! The first “secret” I’ve learned, is that if you’re going to keep your house decorated for Christmas the entire year, you’re going to have to use artificial Christmas trees. Real Christmas trees die after about a month, and you end up having a bunch of bare branches with brown needles all over the floor. (This is ok if you like sliding around on brown needles, but it doesn’t look good, and they get all over your sofa! Trust me, I know!)
Artificial Christmas Trees
I’ve bought 16 artificial Christmas trees in the last 5 years, and I can tell you for sure, that you can buy the best ones by clicking here: Artificial Christmas Trees. I bought a few from other Christmas stores, but my cat ate about half of one of them one night, and nearly died, and another one fell through my front window and landed straight on a passerby, if you can believe that! Wow, what a story I had. Some of the cheap artificial Christmas trees that you can get at places like Home Depot, are not fun to put together, unless you enjoy crying your eyes out for hours on end while your mother plays Elvis music in the background. Please don’t get me started!
At the same Christmas store that you can find by clicking the station above, you can also find giant artificial Christmas trees. These trees can be used inside or outside. A rich uncle of mine bought me a 20-footer for my 30th birthday, and I have it up in my backyard. I’d love to get a few sheep to graze around the tree, but so far I haven’t! HA! Let me tell you, these giant trees are great. They look very real. I still hear my neighbors talking about it when I go outside. Wouldn’t you?
Christmas Decorating Tips
To get back to my “secret” decorating tips… You can even use these tips if you don’t decorate your house for Christmas all year round. I live in a rural town, and before I found these frosted and flocked trees at Santa’s Quarters, I used to spray whipped cream on my trees to make them look like they had snow on them. Maybe this is why my cat ate half of a tree. Duh! Tip number 1 is, if you want a flocked or frosted tree, don’t spray whipped cream on it. Just buy one in the first place. Your cat will appreciate it! My cay, Muster, knows this first hand, or should I say paw!
Now, if you do get an artificial Christmas tree, you should treat it like a real one. When I told one of my friends this, he asked me if he should water it! I said, “No, silly, you don’t have to actually water it!” Gosh, some people. HA! What I mean is that you should care for the tree. Some people think that just because the tree isn’t living, they don’t have to take care of it. I’ve seen one person I know go as far as to insult his tree, just because he didn’t have the right ornaments! Can you believe it? It’s true, really. If you do things like insulting your tree, it’s not going to make you a happy person. So tip #2 is, treat your artificial tree like a real one.
This kind of leads me to tip #3. You know how some people eat grass? Well, I’m sure when you were a kid, you noticed that some of your friends, or maybe even you, ate grass every once in a while, just to see how it would taste. The dad of a friend of mine once did something bad, and his mother made him eat an elephant leaf. Needless to say, he got sick! Well, keep in mind, that some people who ate grass as a child still haven’t kicked the habit. So, you’ll want to be very sure that no one eats the needles or branches off your artificial Christmas tree. As Muster can tell you, this isn’t a good idea. I sometimes put signs up around my artificial trees, warning people not to try and eat the branches. You might do that as tip #3.
If you think about treating your tree as if it were real, of course you know that not many people want to be out in public “in-the-raw”, so to speak, if you catch my drift. Most artificial trees don’t like this either. Trust me. What this means, is that you’ll need to cover your tree with ornaments. The pre-lit trees from Santa’s Quarters (you can get there by clicking on the stations above), come with lights. Duh! So, you don’t have to fret over that. What you should do though, before many people see your tree “in-the-raw”, is put some nice ornaments on it. And, just like a person doesn’t like to be out in the snowy weather without a proper cap, you should put a tree-topper on your tree too. Tip #4 is to remember to decorate your tree and not leave it “in-the-raw”.
When you’re trying to get your house to feel like a Christmas wonderland, you might be tempted to spray whipped cream or cottage cheese all over the floor. DON’T! The whipped cream will get very sticky! And, it attracts pests and vermin. Once I sprayed the Cool Whip all over my house. It got in the cracks, and boy was that not cool! I almost wrote Cool Whip and asked them to take the name Cool off of the Whip! Really. And let me tell you a thing or two about cottage cheese. When it gets old, it really smells bad. Don’t try it for yourself. Tip #5 is, you can put a little bit of cotton snow around your trees, but don’t use whipped cream, or cottage cheese. Trust me on that!
If you really want your house to be a Christmas wonderland like mine, artificial Christmas trees are not enough. You’re going to need some nativity figures, some wreaths and garlands, and you can even put outdoor yard decorations all over your house. Just don’t put them on the supper table! They get hot. Drew’s “secret” tip #6 is, if you’re going to put outdoor yard decorations inside, don’t put them on the supper table. This might seem obvious, but it wasn’t to me, and I know many other people who have done the same.
Now, if you get a few artificial Christmas trees, a whole bunch of ornaments, some nativities, some wreaths and garlands, some yard decorations, and maybe even a giant tree for the yard, and you follow my Drew’s 6 “secret” Christmas decorating tips, you’ll definitely have a very beautiful house all year round. People will probably wish they had done the same thing before you did it. If you have any questions, I would be jolly to answer them. Have a merry whole year!
Drew & Muster