Earlier I was pining about the lack of decent Christmas faux-trees at a reasonable price. Luckily I was out and about yesterday evening (as BJ can attest), and at our local Hobby Lobby I found a nice tree at 33% off!

So, here's our tree. Granted, the day-time picture doesn't capture the glory and grandeur of a fully decorated plastic tree, but it will have to suffice for the next, oh 8 hours or so.

In case you're wondering, it's 9 feet tall (!!), so no I didn't put the star exactly on the top because I couldn't reach it (perhaps I'll get some scaffolding next year). We're pretty happy with it and for the price you can't beat it. Of course Hobby Lobby will probably have it for about 75% off in a few weeks, but this is what we call poor planning - something of which we aren't usually guilty (not).