It only LOOKS brown.

Every year since Day 1 we’ve built a Christmas Tree for the store using the collective imaginations of talented people like Edward Chiorazzi and the late, great Michael Weidner.  And basically…expense be damned!

But 2008 is not a good year for “expense be damned!”

So this year, Edward pointed out some old twig decorations we had in the basement of the warehouse, I found an unsold twig table base in the basement at the store and with the addition of leaves that blew off the tree across the street, some pine cones we had lying around and an old flower arrangement that had dried up nicely…VOILA!  “Green”est tree ever considering the mantra of that movement:

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

I love that we “reduced” expenditures and the decorations around the store didn’t actually COST anything this year.  And out front, instead of buying a wreath and taking down Edward’s art installation, he added Reynolds Wrapped bows and basically turned “What’s Cooking” into “What’s Cooking for Christmas.”

Ain’t he clever?  (And ain’t I cheap!)  Merry Christmas!