Last year, in a fit of creativity (and um, after excessive Pinterest usage), I decided to make these long strings of Christmas ornaments, to hang vertically, at one end of my porch. Like a pretty, ornamenty, Christmasy curtain.
Pinterest advised using twine. Or...was it um...fishing line...stuff. Something other than thread.
So I used thread.
This year, I so wanted to hang these things up again. But when I got them out, wonder of all wonders, the six or so strings I'd made have now tangled and twisted and tied themselves into one giant ball. I spent half an hour trying to untangle them, before losing my mind and pulling really hard and making the whole thing worse, along with breaking off the top of an ornament....which then jabbed my finger right exactly in the spot where I sliced and diced myself with a butter knife.
This was all just a few minutes before tumbling over backwards off the end of the porch.
But hey, lights are up and on and it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here.
And now, partly because arwen mentioned watching Elf, but mainly because this is my faaaavorite Christmas movie...
...'tis movie time.