Last year, beginning in December and going forward about six months, I had a lot of trouble with my blog. Many things weren’t posted last Christmas, including the chalkboard tree for 2018. After posting the start of this year’s tree, I realized I never posted last year’s tree. I’ll fix that now!
The theme for last year, 2018, was “I’ll be home for Christmas.” This was our seventh chalkboard Christmas tree and may have been our most ambitious tree yet.
I began the process of finding pictures we could use. I searched online and found printable coloring pages that I thought would work. My sister Genny and I laid them out in the order that made sense to us.
Then the tracing began. We use white graphite paper to trace the pictures onto the chalkboard. And it all takes time…!
The tree was going to tell the story of a family gathering for the holidays, using the song “I’ll be Home for Christmas” as our inspiration.
Beginning at the bottom of the tree, the story unfolded, one panel at a time. By the lamp post, in the front yard, children are building a snowman and a young boy greets you from the gate, along with our cat Clark.
The next level up the tree features the car, piled with gifts and holiday cheer, as they head home for Christmas.
There’s the excitement of arriving home, with all the joyful greetings!
The children are counting down the days with their Advent calendar.
I thought the branches, with the multiple kinds of greenery, were particularly pretty on this tree.
And Dad is putting up the lights!
Grandma is baking our favorite Christmas cookies!
Everyone pitches in wrapping the special gifts.
The Christmas Eve service puts the focus where it should be…the birth of Christ, our Savior.
Everyone enjoys the children’s Christmas program.
And then it’s Christmas morning and time to unwrap the presents!
Our cat Winston enjoys the warm fire while the snow piles up outside.
This year, along with the lights around the chalkboard, we added popcorn and cranberry strings to each branch. They are a tradition in our family!
The ceilings are 12′ high. The chalkboard is about 8 1/2′ tall.
We hope you have the joy of going home for Christmas!
You can find the other chalkboard Christmas trees we’ve made by searching this blog for “chalkboard Christmas tree.”
Merry Christmas! ~~Rhonda
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I just love the chalkboard trees that you do every year. They are so wonderful to look at.