Picture tagging game!

In solidarity with my illustrious friend, Athena...


The rules are simple:

1) Go to your photo files, select the 8th photo folder
2) Select the 8th photo in that folder
3) Post that photo along with the story behind it
4) Then challenge 8 blogging friends to do the same!


Here's my photograph:

This was the day of the JVC Camden Community Christmas Extravaganza (briefly referenced in this post from December). We had decided in the weeks leading up to Advent that we should dedicate a whole day to preparing for Christmas as a community, especially since we were planning to visit our families for the actual holiday.

The plan for that day was to run a 5K in the morning, take naps (this was added to the schedule shortly after the last of us crossed the finish line), snap a photo for the community Christmas card, decorate the house, put up and decorate the Christmas tree, go to dinner and end the evening watching It's a Wonderful Life while sipping on hot chocolate with peppermint schnapps. (I just love recapping that day.)


Anyway, when we opened the box of Christmas ornaments, I was a little saddened when I realized there was no tree-topper in the box. Mark suggested that I just make one, but we had nothing around the house to create an angel or a star.


Undeterred by an apparent lack of supplies, I thought about it until I remembered that the volunteers from the Philadelphia Mercy Volunteer Corp had given us a box of Christmas chocolates when we invited them over for game night earlier in the week. The chocolates were individually wrapped in shiny, gold-colored cellophane. The six of us had devoured all of the treats the day before.


I rooted through the garbage until I pulled out all of the little gold wrappers. Then I tore a side off of a cardboard box and cut it out into the shape of a star. We wrapped the gold cellophane around the cardboard, and Voila! We had a tree-topper. Stephanie and I called it "the simple-living star" because it was made out of recycled materials.


Mark took this picture of me and Steph right before we put the star together. We were pretty pleased with our ingenuity at making out Christmas tree truly ours by rigging up our own star, (There's a great picture of Mark placing the star on top of the tree) so we gleefully held up the wrappers at the camera.


OK, I tag:
Lauren
Bridget
Laurie (or Ben)
Marc
Corina (do you still blog?!?)
...
I think that's all the blogger friends who haven't already done this or been tagged!