{These beautiful items were gifted to me for the purpose of this review,
I have not been instructed what to write}
I suspect most people would agree that Christmas is a magical time, but I
think we all have our own unique reasons for why we enjoy it. From family time
to gift-giving, to lots of merriment and parties, right through to the hope of
snow and of course, decorating your house. I wouldn't say I'm an elaborate
house stager for the Christmas period but I do adore decorating my Christmas
tree.
For years I had a colour coordinated tree and I was more interested in the
overall aesthetic than anything else. That changed in the last decade, I think
probably it was the children that helped me to see that memories can be more
important than style. Add to that some journeys abroad that held great meaning
and I started to collect tree ornaments that I could bring out every year and
hang. What I've found is that as I unpack those decorations I am transported
back to the time I bought the decoration or perhaps when it was made, or a
special year when I hung it with one of my children and it now has sentimental
meaning.
I've shared a few times on my blogs about our Christmas trees, you can see
our 2012 offerings over here, or our
2018 one here. I also shared a tutorial in 2017 for making small
Christmas wreath tree ornaments
and these have been very popular and make excellent but inexpensive teacher/
youth leader gifts.
Here is Miss E decorating our tree last year, as you can
see I have done away with the tinsel and it's all about seeing each individual
ornament now and there are a lot of them!
