holiday summary

This year’s holiday decorations, in total: The Outside Lights: ST:TCT: The Regency Mantle: The Side-by-Side: The Built-In: The Display Case: The Holiday Table: It was a simple and easy holiday, exactly what we needed. May everyone’s new year bring good things.

under the wire

This was a rough but good year. Big projects and heavy schedules sit on the horizon and I’m working to clear the tedium of life prior to the chaos. I thought that included holiday decorations, but as Christmas neared neither of us wanted to wake up without a tree on Christmas, so I got to […]

the tree that almost wasn’t

For the first time in over twenty-five years, I wasn’t going to put up a Christmas tree. You see, things need to happen over winter in this old house, and I need time to get projects ready. But I know how I work, and I do not want to return after holiday travel and have […]

ST:TCT meets ST:TTS

This year brings some big changes for Star Trek: The Christmas Tree, shaking things up and giving it room to grow. To me, they are all equally big changes, but let’s act like there’s a ranking: Biggest change: Star Trek: The Tree Skant! I finally sorted out what to do for a tree skirt, having […]

today’s project:

Allow me to introduce Lt. Tree Skant. LOL We’ve been in need of a tree skirt for ST:TCT, and this year was the year to settle it. I found some vintage Camelot Fabrics and launched the plan. Wanting some flash for the holiday, I found some large scale metallic ric rac to mimick rank stripes. […]

ST:TCT pre-season opener

Our Christmas trees aren’t started yet, which is the latest of the seven holiday seasons we’ve had in this house. It’s not a problem, and mostly by choice, but here we are. Plotting and planning have been moving forward, though, and my excitement to start is building daily. I have reconceived ST:TCT, but I’m waiting […]

it is back!

ST:TCT The Storytellers™ are complete this year, Bones and Chekov now joining the set. Some lighting issues surfaced this year, so we have varied white tones and brightness. I’ll likely need to relight the entire tree next year. Also, at some point, I need to wrap or paint power cords, but my husband is once […]

more than a trifle of tribbles

We have a tribble problem… Hallmark’s first plush tribble was released in 2019… and released an exclusive comic con redesign in 2020. And then they clearly got into something tasty. We don’t even keep food in the music room… We’ve definitely got some trouble.

ST:TCT 2021

Star Trek: The Christmas Tree graces our home for another year, adding to its grandeur ornaments from ST:PIC, the storyteller collection, ST:SFS and a bonus addition. Clearly, we already have a tribble problem and it isn’t even December yet… We have both official Hallmark releases plus a batch of faux fur poms from Michael’s last […]

ST:TCT addendum

I found something. Rather, I found some things. Nine out of ten things. They will fit in nicely: I first learned about the ornaments from Star Trek: The Experience from this blog post, which is the same blog I followed to track down the earlier Keepsake ornaments when I first started ST:TCT. The Gorn was […]