It’s Starting to Look and Feel Like Christmas

Only two days until the man in the red suit visits all the good boys and girls……and grown ups too, if they still believe.  We certainly do.

This year our decorations are fairly similar to the last couple of years, with just a couple of variations.  Our twiggy Christmas tree has normally sat on my Granny’s trousseau box, but during the year be bought a lovely leadlight bow fronted china cabinet and relocated the box.  Where to put the tree?  In the end, we just moved it fairly close and popped it on a stool, covered by a table centre that I received one year in the Secret Santa Christmas Swap arranged by Chooky.  Perfect.

There are just two new decorations on it this year.  Firstly, a little Bilby that I bought when we visited Charleville earlier in the year.

The second is the cute felt Christmas tree which Lou sent to me for our annual swap.  There are many decorations on this tree made by Lou.  Probably enough to have their own tree, as we have been doing this annual swap since 2009.

While I’m at it, this is the one I sent to Lou this year.  We both seem to have thought of the theme of trees.

This is what our dining area looks like this year, minus the trousseau box.

The other change this year is the addition of the little tree that Mick made for Mum to showcase her handmade decoration collection while living in residential aged care.  It now fits nicely atop the china cabinet, which holds many of her items.

Here is a bit of a closer look.  If you pop over to this post, you can see how they were all displayed in her room.

Now to the sitting area.  The mantle piece is pretty much the same as usual.

The lounge room is also pretty much the same, featuring our large tree with more special decorations collected over the years.  Some I can date back to our first Christmas together, while others have been collected on some of our travels.

I made the light hearted comment to Mick that we have done well not to buy any additional decorations this year (other than the Bilby)………I shouldn’t have……

When Mick put up our outside lights, one of the strings of the icicles that go around the gutters didn’t work!  Blast!  Fortunately, we were able to source some just the same as the other existing ones……….Then when he went to hook up the star over the garage door it didn’t work either!  What?!  Obviously, nine years is the use by date for those two strings.  No worries, off to Bunnings again to get another replacement.  So much for no buying decorations.  I should have shut my mouth.

Anyway, the outside, including our tree in the lounge room, all look good from the street.  “Skippy” and “Mervyn and Muriel the Mooses” all took up their usual positions. 

The bottom end of our street is looking very festive. When we moved here it was the top end that was all lit up, but times have changed, kids have grown up and it now seems that all us oldies down the bottom of the street have been the ones to put the lights up.

On Sunday night we hosted the neighbourhood Christmas party in our back yard.  It has become quite the tradition we all look forward to.  One of our neighbours is a very talented crafty person and she gifted us a resin angel that she just whipped up that day.  Isn’t she gorgeous.  We now have to find a special place to hang her where she will show up nicely.