Alternative advent calendar #16

Last year I didn't dare have my nice baubles on the tree because Mewster was still so young and bouncy.  She is still a lively character but I trust her enough not to jump up the tree or destroy my precious decorations!

I've kept things very minimal this year, lights and maybe ten or fifteen baubles, the tree we bought was really dense and looks great it doesn't need excessive decoration for it to be beautiful.  Plus it smells amazing!  There have been so many white artificial trees on the blogs I read and they look amazing, at the last car boot sale I went to I was tempted many, many times to buy one, but... I just love the smell of a real tree I don't know if I can do it??

Alternative advent calendar #14

Tree purchased it has been on with decorating the house, from indestructible decorations, via the shooting star outdoor light I bought at a car boot sale last March which looks great on the side board to the 1950's plastic Nativity set a colleague gave me several years ago.  Things are looking fairly festive in the Mozzy household, we're both very much looking forward to just chilling out over the holiday and what better environment to do that in?

Alternative advent calendar #13

Woop woop! Christmas tree time!  For the last three years we've purchased our tree from Halden Christmas tree centre, the smell of the place is amazing and really gets me in the festive mood.  I'm sorry to those who like an artificial tree but for me it has to be a real one, it just wouldn't be the same for me if we had a plastic one!

Last Christmas I saw on Pinterest this idea for storing decorations, the baubles pictured here used to be my MoMa and MoPa's and I think MoMa even said they might have been Mo...Gran (?)'s previously.  Sadly I won't be able to use these baubles until Mewster the cat learns that destroying decorations doesn't win you salmony treats.

Alternative advent calendar #3

Why am I furiously making pom poms?  Well, because of this little beasty really:

Little Pigga who sadly died in May this year paid no attention whatsoever to the Christmas tree which meant I could have my lovely, lovely vintage baubles adorning my tree but Mewster here, Mewster is another story entirely.  This one will walk across the sideboard or table knocking things off just for the hell of it, what can I say?  She loves to play.  Which is fine, but it's not fine anywhere near the vintage baubles so I'm busy working on Christmas version 2.0, an unbreakable, pom pom and plastic decoration Christmas.  I'll show you the results when they're up....

Alternatve Advent Calendar #4

From tinsel Christmas trees to real ones.  Yesterday we visited the Christmas tree farm in Halden forest to get our lovely tree.  It's a week earlier than I would normally put our tree up but I was feeling in need of little festive cheer after yet another hectic week at work so thought I would dig out the vintage baubles (stored in a box labelled 'my precious') and get on with the serious business of decorating the house.  MozzyMr is not a fan of Christmas and finds the putting up of the tree stressful so goes upstairs and plays Advanced Wars on his DS, I made him an advent calendar this year which seems to be easing the festive woe.  Today we will be putting the allotment to bed for the winter.

Alternative Advent Calendar #3

I stopped attempting tasteful Christmases last year and embraced full on tat in a spectacular fashion, and do you know what?  The house looks ace!  Colourful, Christmasy and a happy place to be so this year I am adding to my collection of glittery Christmas joy with the above tinsel Christmas tree.  It's about two foot high and came from last Sunday's car boot sale, only £2 and that money went to charity, win win!  But just look at the pretty colours, catface is fascinated by it and spends a high proportion of her day staring at it, and who can blame her?