Yule Decorations

So, it's December and the Yule decorations have been placed in their respective places. Yes, I know Yule was yesterday and I'm about a week late on my post :( such is life!

Several years ago, I had a tree but it's gone. Last year, I tried to buy a tree at the after-Christmas sell but there wasn't one. So this year, I decided to buy one. However, now you can only buy one with lights attached which was fine but I had to decide what kind of lights I wanted. So, here is the new tree.

Yes, you can see my favorite Halloween decoration was still up at the time this picture was taken. Do you think some of those presents are for you? Maybe.....

Some of the ornaments are rather sentimental; this first one was one of last years Christmas gifts from my friend Anne.


The next one was another Christmas gift from last year and it came from one of my tattooists, PaulLee.

Remeber that he is the one that found the Dragonfly song for me.

The last one was not a gift per say but it came from a box of giveaways that Anne was going through and she let me have some of the decorations. Although Santa is plastic, I really like his "old world" appearance.

This is part of my tin M&M village. Many years ago, my dads mom started this village by sending two tins from Arkansas (they are under the tree this year). Then occasionally my parents would give me a couple of tins a year for Christmas. They stopped doing this when I was in high-school and then I continued to buy them for myself. I looked for them this year but couldn't find any- I wonder if they stopped producing them.

I finally put up my stocking; you can see my angel tree topper as well. I bought the angel years ago but this year was the first time I could plug it into a light source. Please notice that I finally took down my favorite Halloween decoration ;)!

I, also, bought a fiber-optic tree with decorations from my friend who is moving to Switzerland. Her husband told me this was their first tree here in America and I felt bad that it might not get a good home and I had been thinking about obtaining a smaller tree. So now we are a two tree family!

As you can see that Woudin really likes this tree! He likes the other one as well but he tends to hang around this one and admires the ornaments. It was difficult to decorate the trees with him underfoot.

I, also, bought a garland and big snowflakes from my friends. At first, I was thinking I would give it to Anne since I wasn't sure what to do with it and then inspirations struck!

Here is a close up of the center of the garland.

And here is a close up of the right side of the garland.

I think the garland looks good and the red curtains make it even more festive. I'm already thinking of how I can decorate it next year but the after Christmas sells may provide me with more inspiration only time will tell.

I hope your house decorating has been as fun as mine!

Are you wondering about the "ornament" that is at the top of the blog? Well its a Native American Lacross stick that my friend Georgia made. She said that people often buy them from her shop as gifts. I decided it looked great as a Yule tree ornament so there it is.