One of the
many things I love about Christmas is Christmas decorations. Having a fondness
for twinkly lights and sparkle Christmas provides with an excuse to deck the
house with lots of lights, sparkle and shimmering decorations.
Whilst I do
not go all out and decorate the inside and outside of the house head to toe in Christmas
lights and decorations (I dread to think of the cost to do so, buying and then
running so many lights!) I do like to full the living room in particular with a
fully decorated Christmas tree, lots of twinkling Christmas lights, a touch of
sparkling tinsel and novelty decorations.
Like most
of my style, my Christmas decorations style is a tad eclectic. I do not really
stick to a theme, deciding to simply decorate with decorations I like even if
they differ in style. As Lee prefers a set style this year he and Bug decided
to decorate our Christmas tree in a set of colours, sticking with a theme of
red, white and silver.
Being a
parent who loves doing crafts with her children Christmas gives me the ideal
opportunity for lots of Christmas inspired crafts. As Bug loves arts and crafts
he has relished in the past few weeks of Christmas crafts, having particularly
enjoyed doing lots of homemade Christmas decorations. One of our most loved homemade
Christmas crafts from this year is Bug’s DIY reusable Christmas tree advent
calendar that has taken pride of place in Bug’s bedroom.
I also
like to inject Bug’s loves and interest into our decorations. We are making
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles baubles and decorated his own Christmas tree as
Santa Darth Vader to make the festive holiday even more fun and magical for our
boy.
Even
though I admire lush, real Christmas trees I tend to stick with my old and now
a little tatty fake tree partly due to the cost of buying real every year and
partly to do with being eco-friendly. And now that I am a parent, my pre-parent
fake tree provides me with the added benefit of being more child-friendly and
not dropping needles everywhere.
I read in
a recent article that talked about Baytree Interiors’ research into the nations favourite Christmas decorations, that out of 1,000 UK residents polled a huge
49% of people are like us and have a fake tree. What I did find surprising is
that 23% of people don’t have a Christmas tree.
With
Christmas lights being a favourite of mine I am like the 42% of people who
chose Christmas lights as their favourite decorations, with the Christmas
wreath only racking up 14% of votes.
What type
of Christmas decorations are your favourite?
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