Oh Christmas Boot, Oh Christmas Boot...

Not much had been done to decorate our unit for Christmas. I really wasn't in the mood to decorate, but something had to be done. We couldn't be the only unit in the hospital not fancied up. So, I assigned the decorating to two of my coworkers. We have several boxes of ornaments and stuff along with a fake tree in a closet. They got everything down and opened the tree box and it was empty. Someone had stolen our tree.

I had had no interest in decorating until I found out that our tree was gone. Suddenly, I felt a fire in my spirit and was determined that we would decorate something, I didn't really care what. I dug through some closets and found an orthopedic boot and a blue abduction pillow (used for holding people's legs apart). I told my coworkers to decorate those.

This is the boot. It's sort of like a Christmas stocking, but it can stand up on it's own. The red and black colors are rather striking I think.

This is the abduction pillow. It turned out much better than I expected. I'm impressed that my coworkers were able to work with so little and get such good results. I would like to see Martha Stewart decorate a boot and abduction pillow with such good results.