Two months ago, we took down a huge fir tree, it was bending dangerously towards the house. A winter storm, and it could have fallen into the roof. When I saw the long, beautiful upper branches, with its magnificent cones, I decided to save them for later. I did not know right then what to use them for, I just had the intuition it would be handy somewhere.

And one day the solution was right there! The upper part of the railing on

our veranda is of whitepainted wood. What if I put the fir branches on top of that, tied onto it with some roughlooking string from the garden store.

With a helping hand from my husband, to hold the branches into place while I tied them, a fairy tale landscape took form. The irregularity of the branches hanging from the rail accentuated the feeling of fairy tale.

To finish off, I tied silvery Christmas tree balls all along the front side of the railing. For a little while I considered brightening up the whole with electric Christmas lights, but decided not to. The sharp lights would have taken away the mysterious fairy tale feeling. Enjoy 🙂