Holiday Displays in the Library

Years ago we found out that the Friends of the Library paid a local person hundreds of dollars each year to decorate our trees. Frankly, I was shocked. I mean, they were nicely decorated, but hundreds of dollars to decorate a tree?  Shortly after I found that out, we took over decorating our own trees. I wish I had thought to post our trees over the years as some of them were pretty great, but I did not. Anyways, here are this year's trees.

As we are a public library and we don't have a big budget, we try not to spend a lot of money on decorations. Last year our white tree was decorated with office supplies, including colorful post-it notes with reminders for Santa as to what each employee would like as a present.  Our large tree is a 9 foot tree and it can be a challenge to decorate such a big tree inexpensively. This year we decided to decorate with large tissue paper flowers...its the ROY G BIV tree. (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet don't ya know)

This was my Director's tree, and she filled in the spaces with lots of ornaments and silk flowers (we have a ton of them donated to us). It is a pretty spectacular tree, very colorful and eye-catching if I do say so myself.

I decorated the white tree, which seemed a little less white and a little more dingy this year. I went for subtlety with aqua and violet and only gold ornaments. The "garland" I used were left over from our Light Parade costumes...we were lit up jellyfish. The garland is made from bath scrubby things...what is the correct word for them? I don't know. You just cut the string holding them together and you have a nice long garland.

The other seasonal decorations were these ballerinas with snowflake skirts and this was a Pinterest idea that my coworker Kathy found. The bodies were cut out of posterboard, and the snowflake skirts from large rolls of paper.

Lastly, here is our entry for the Light Parade. We decided not to push a bookcart as we have in the past, as that also entailed pushing a heavy car battery hidden on the cart!  We liked the change so much we will probably not include the cart again if we can help it.

Here are photos of our Light Parade entries from the past couple of years, including the bookcart.

Happy Holidays to all, whatever you celebrate, or don't celebrate.    L