I have always been a design geek. I can’t remember a time that I wasn’t trying to put my personal stamp on my living spaces, DIY’ing something I couldn’t find or couldn’t afford to buy, and last year where we renovated a distressed property into an Airbnb. A Life Unfolding is where I share design, decor, DIY’s, and all things home.

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Hello, my friends!

I’m excited for today for a couple of reasons.

First up, I’ve got the Christmas music over here on repeat!

My new favorite Christmas album is Norah Jones-I Dream of Christmas and the album I’ve had on repeat for the last few years from Lauren Daigle- Behold.

Reason number two I am excited??

Today, I am sharing the fresh flower Christmas Tree I decorated recently for a progressive dinner with my neighbors.

For the past few summers, my neighbors have gotten together and drawn names for a neighborhood progressive holiday dinner that happens in November.

We divide an evening into cocktails, appetizers (and more cocktails), main course, dessert, and coffee then we hop from house to house for each course.

It’s SOOO much fun!

And It’s a lovely way to catch up before the holiday rush and see everyone’s decorations.

Plus, no one is stuck with a big party!

Win!

This year, I drew coffee, which tends to be the most boring of the stops, so I wanted to find a way to make it special.

My Fresh Flower Christmas Tree

Close up of fresh flower tree holding vases filled with roses, greenery and thistle. — Fresh Flowers and greenery for Christmas

I decided to do something very different with my Christmas Tree for the occasion.

I used vases filled with mini roses, thistle, and greens as ornaments tying in my love of fresh flowers into a party favor my guests could take home with them at the end of the evening.

Using Vases for the flowers

Fresh Flower tree with bud vases used as party favors — The guests took the vases home as party favors.

The lights bounced around the water-filled vases (my photos here don’t do it justice).

Assembling the Vases

Pulling the tree together was relatively easy.

I used three sizes of glass vases that I found at Hobby Lobby during one of their half-off sales.

I recently found this plastic version of the vase with an option of gold or silver lids that would be even better as you wouldn’t have to worry about breakage.

Because the lids weren’t needed for this project, I set those aside.