Bronze, Gold & Green Christmas Tree Additions

I was missing my gold pears and gold smiling stars when I did the tree. I found them when I brought up the box of gold reindeer.

Here is one of the stars:

and one of my shiny gold man-in-the-moons:

and some of the sparkly bronze pears I painted a few years ago:

I am still missing gold birds and gold metal bows, but I don't think I have anyplace to put them now!  DH was right. Once I got done this tree has few big empty gaps between branches.   One way I hide the big holes is to use large shiny balls deep inside the tree, rather than on the branch tips.  Like this shiny green ball which hides a view of the metal pole (hate that!).

I also stuck one of my whimsical elves on the side to cover a big hole. I have about a dozen of these that I made quite a few years ago.  I just love the little guys and wanted to use a least one of them this year, even though I am cutting way back on the decorating.

I think decorating under the tree is just as important as the tree itself. 
To fill the space, I put a few  gold reindeer under the tree with some packages wrapped to match the tree colors.

 I then scattered a bunch of my gold and silver-painted pine cones around the deer.  Again I have had these for at least 15 years.

I think I am now done decorating this tree.  Today I removed the greenery I had twisted around the drapery rod.  I did not feel like decorating that. I decided two wreaths would be easier. They were because I was tired and just stuck some stuff on them and hung them up to cover the curtain brackets.   Works for me.

This tree is in a spot where I can really enjoy it for the next month. To the left is the kitchen where I can see it as I cook, etc. 

Just for kicks, I looked up last year's tree. What totally different look it was with a gingerbread man/sunflower scheme:

I did use the same big green glittery orbs, but just about everything else is different.

Unfortunately we have a little kitchen problem.  Just  before we left for our Thanksgiving get-a-way weekend, we discovered that the sink is clogged.  Nothing DH does has helped, so tomorrow we will have to find a plumber.  If that isn't enough, our washing machine is also about to die. One day last week I heard a loud noise (like the load was out of balance) while doing a big load. When I went to the basement, I saw a little bit of water on the floor (coming from underneath the machine).  It's happened a couple of times since, but only when we do a large load.  Right now we are only doing smallish loads and it's working fine.  No idea what the problem is, but I am quite sure we will be having to buy a new one soon.

I am not planning to do any more decorating. It feels good to have it all done and the room cleaned up.

Is anyone else having a problem with the Blogger preview?  I have not been able to use it for the past week.