By the next morning it will be just defrosted enough to fry it up!)

She’s right, you know!I couldn’t help it!

I knew I would love these stars again if they were nice and fresh and white.. We built these shutters using some basic 1×6 lumber, cut to look like little pickets, with some thin strips across the front for stability.The whole thing is held together by wood glue.We just used clamps to hold it all together while it dried.

We actually made these quite a while ago, so no pictures of the process!You can see that the construction is pretty simple from the back though.

I painted the front to make them look weathered using a bunch of different random paints that I had on hand at the time..

I combined the two elements to make one big farmhousy piece of art for the wall!.I love it so much.

I got to pick whatever fabric I wanted and I’m so glad I went just a little bit bold with this one..I really love fancy and complicated Christmas trees, but I just don’t have the patience to do them myself at this point in my life.

So even though we have 5 trees this year, they’re all super super simple.We don’t use the recommended 100 lights per foot of tree.