Christmas seems to start earlier and earlier these days doesn’t it? Even the Coca Cola has been on for weeks already this year.
It doesn’t officially start in our house until the 1st December though which is the day we dust off the Christmas CDs and films, start planning our Christmas crafting and baking activities and more importantly, it’s the day we put our tree up.
We do it on the same day each year but this year, because I’ve not been feeling well this week (probably thanks to my near drowning in the rain experience) I tried to delay the festivities a few days but the rest of the family were having none of it! It actually worked out quite well though to be fair as I got to sit on the settee with a furry blanket and a nice cup of hot chocolate (which may or may not have included a medicinal shot of Baileys) with the Michael Buble Christmas album playing gently in the background.
The rest of the family weren’t so lucky! They had to untangle the lights that we really should have put away properly last year, wrap the mile long lengths of tinsel that we have around the tree and finally hang the ornaments on the tree in locations of my choosing (which apparently was a bit difficult from my instructions of ‘no, not that branch. That one!’).
Anyway, a few teeny tiny disagreements later, we’re done….
I’d love you to join in and link up your Christmas tree, mainly because I’m nosey and I love looking at other people’s trees (and kitchens for some reason but that’s a whole other linky just waiting to happen lol). I’ve made a badge but you don’t need to use it, you don’t even need to link to me, I just want you all to link up so we can all have a good nosey at your tree 🙂
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A very pretty tree…I'm afraid I just put up the tree and gave the children the box of decorations and closed the door! (admittedly one of them is 20 and quite arty) I think it worked out okay x
ohh I like the purple, thanks for the linky. I'm a bit late but got there in the end. A very Happy Christmas to you all Cass. Mich x
Ooh love looking at Christmas trees so off to nosy at everyone's now!
Lovely tree! Looks very festive.
Great idea I love looking at other peoples trees!! I'm a tad OCD with mine 🙁 but I love hearing whether parents or kids decorate the tree also xx
Have added my ugly one 😉
Thank you for this linky – you'll see at the bottom of my post I added your badge but it did not work on my blog, to make up for it you'll see I also added a link to this post xx
My tree is a mix and match explosion in a bauble factory!!
What a gorgeous tree x
Love the colours of your tree. The purples remind me of chocolate wrappers and I'm feeling quite peckish now x
Hubby and kids decorated the tree when I was at work and surprised me with it when I came home
Our tree has gone up today, a little earlier than usual but couldn't resist any longer! Christmas is definitely here 🙂
Lovely tree! Ours went up yesterday too, but Mr B and I ended up doing all the work after the kids lost interest in about the first 15 mins! 🙂
Hello, Ive joined in too. Im also a bit of a tree drill sergeant when it comes to positioning of certain ornaments etc. Hence why the hubby tends to watch, or avoid eye contact with me, while me and Jay put it up. Yurs looks lovely by the way.
Oh and I would love to take part in the kitchen one too, I like to nosey at others too. xx
we got a pre lit tree to stop the lights tangle 🙂
Would love to link up but my OH is a miserable scrooge when it comes to Christmas, and only gets up in the roof at the last minute to get it down. So mine would be an extremely late addition.
(We also have purple on ours – with silver)