for the last few years a dear friend has come over to help me with the Christmas decorating…

I’ve always loved Christmas but since the loss of my beloved it has lost a bit of its lustre…

this year I’ve been working away on my own to decorate… I decided to try some different options… took me a few weeks but it is done now…

have put my tree collection in the dining room where my pottery usually lives… and even passed along some pieces, yay for me;-)…

put up a new tree with purple and silver decorations and hung up the glass balls on either side of the picture above the sofa…

put the snow people up the stairs…

got a garland going along the ledge in the dining room… final piece was to put the glittery trees on the fish tank…

still might have my friend come by to check it all out…

then going to go through the rest of the Christmas boxes and maybe pass some decorations along to others…

there are the reindeer, the snowflakes, the nativities, the angels, the santas…