The tree's up early as I'm having an Open House shopping event on Thursday. I've decided to go for the full-on (bad taste?) Christmas tree from my 70s childhood because it makes me feel nostalgic and happy. The tree is of course fake, for kitsch-ness reasons , as well because I am unwilling to spend another New Year extracting hundreds of pine needles from the carpet with tweezers.
Here are some of my favourite baubles...
The glass birdies with feather tails were bought as a set from
Sugar Pie Lemon Drop a couple of years ago.
and the full tree with coloured lights...
17 year old daughter L says it's 'Soooo Garish' and wishes we had a normal tree. Well I don't do normal, so there!
I've made some wool felt bunting for the fireplace, and found this little tree in the charity shop...
So pleased I found it as I'd coveted Thea's little red tinsel tree at Hearts and Bluebells...
In this part of the world we call this festive prettification 'trimming up' - what a fab phrase.
What do you call getting the house ready for Christmas?
