Kennedy Krieger Festival of Trees

Each year Kennedy Krieger holds their Festival of Trees.  Hundreds of businesses, and regular people come together to sponsor and/or design great Christmas trees and donate them.  Then attendees can buy the trees for their own homes and all of the money goes to Kennedy Krieger.  It's a fabulous fundraiser, and is one that's been going on for years and years.  Somehow, I just started attending a few years ago.  Now I'm super excited for it each year.

The creativity and time that goes into creating these trees blows me away.  Some people just have the cutest and the best ideas.  While the trees are super expensive, and while I'd never spend hundreds of dollars on a pre-decorated tree, I do love getting to see them up close.  If nothing else, it gives me all sorts of crafty ideas, for future Christmas projects.  So fun!

 Minions are quite popular...

 This one is my favorite!  It's all about Baltimore but all the ornaments were hand painted.  So crafty!

 Hate Star Wars.  Love that his light saber is made of red Christmas balls....

Big surprise the English Teacher's favorite was all about Jane Austen

 Snowhead!

 Another favorite - A Crafty Christmas created by my friend the English Teacher and her NHS students. 

 Book Tree!!!

 My other favorite - All Harry Potter.  So cute!

As well as the trees, they also have vendors selling Christmasy things like the super adorable, cutest Santa hat ever I'm sporting! Seriously, does it get any cuter?