Christmas is one of my favorite times of year. I have an excuse to decorate the house with bright colors that I wouldn’t usually use. This is our cats third Christmas with us, and I opted for a little different decorating. Instead of putting all of the ornaments on the tree this year I decided that they were much safer placed in containers out of the way and not dangling there for what seemed like her entertainment. Last year our tree looked like a train wreck after only a week into having the tree up. By the time Christmas arrived our tree looked worse than Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree.

This year as soon as the tree came out of the box, it was open season on the Christmas tree. I knew that the cat would immediately look at the Christmas ornaments on the tree as an excuse to jump five feet into the air to get as many of the ornaments off as possible while damaging the tree with each leap into the air. She not only tries to climb the outside of the tree, but the inside as well. It’s quite a sight. This year the cat loses and I win with my new strategy.

I actually saw this in a magazine one year, and thought that it had an elegant look. I gathered the glass jars I had around the house, emptied their contents if they had other objects in them and filled each jar with similar colored ornaments. The look is quite stunning and creates the perfect centerpiece. The jars can be grouped together or stand on their own, but they truly are quite beautiful together. We may have to use this tactic for several more years until our cat gets a little more mature. This year our tree is decorated with lights and silver ribbon, simple and sweet, and something our cat cares nothing about.

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