My decorations are garish, vulgar and don't match

[StickEmWithThePointyEnd]

And I love it. Ds also loves it, he is mesmorised by all the colours and sparkles.

My tree is the height of sophistication - a slim 5 ft tree standing on the side table (so as not to limit the already limited floor space), with twinkling white lights, matching baubles in various shades of gold and pewter (to match the decor) and ds's special christmas baubles (only three at the moment as this is his third Christmas).

The window is proudly displaying a sting of multicoloured lights around the edge and santa and his reindeer in the centre. I have my Christmas Cookie yankie candles in my little Santa tea light holder. A couple of sparkly winter birds are brightening up the bookshelf.

My jingly bell wreath is not allowed on any doors this year, as it drove me mad last year, so it is hanging silently above the fireplace, where it can't annoy anyone.

We will be making paperchains with ds sometime next week.

And my pride and joy; my multicoloured Cinderella carriage fairy lights are hung around the room on the picture rail (out of reach of fiddling ds fingers!).

Some of you may remember my previous posts in July and August about these lights (probably not though). I bought two sets from ebay at ridiculous prices and was hoping to get the wiring modernised. Turns out a much simpler method was to find a modern set of lights with lanterns on them - remove the modern lanterns and replace with the vintage ones et voila! Recreated Chrismas memories from my childhood without the risk of electrocution and fire! Yaay!

Fantastic!

Good for you.

My tree is always a fantastic extravaganza of how made shite and tinsel.
The children do it themselves.
One of these years the decorations will be all the way to the top

Wish I could see DS's little face

I have only put up one straw wreath on the inside of the door so far. We have to padlock our outside wreath to the door as have had two stolen in ten years.... Last year I threaded very sharp prickled bramble stems through it to deter attempts to yank it off, all too sadly common when the scum walk home from the clubs yet we live in what is considered to be a 'nice' area!

Always have a 10-12 foot real tree and DH is King of the Christmas crap/Kitsch. It is now a tradition that if it jingles/plays carols, is shiny, tinselly or Santa Claus shaped, DH will covet it. Have got him yet another horrific sweater to wear- A 3D Snowman design complete with two sets of a scarf, hat and gloves that attach with velcro so Snowman can ring the changes.

Love the sound of your lanterns StickEm.

Can you please put a photo of the Cinderella lights on your profile. They sound amazing ! So jealous.

"My decorations are garish, vulgar and don't match"

Is this not what Christmas is about .

I which case I've been failing for years .

My house looks like a light shop. I have about 500 on the tree along with red/gold baubles and then various glittery and Disney bits and pieces, and then another 2/300 all over the bannister.

Woo hoo to garish. Although I'd be even more impressed if it was December.

I wanted a tasteful tree one year (white lights only, natural wood ornaments, silver baubles only) but DD decreed that Christmas is tacky not tasteful, so multicoloured lights, tinsel etc ensued.

I still tease her about it (but actually she is right!)

I have a Mickey Mouse Santa Hat - it has ears. Also has 5 plastic stars across the front, if you click a button they light up in turn (v fast). Tackorama, and I love it.

My phone won't take a clear picture of the lights (it's just a blur of shiny colour ) but they are these Pifco lights.

My grandad had a set of these which I adored when I was a child, I've spent a couple of years looking for these or ones like them!

I bought two sets off ebay earlier in the year, but both sets had old fashioned wiring - just a live and neutral wire but without colours so we didn't know which was which! Dh thinks he figured it out but the wires were too thin to safely attach a normal plug to them, so we had to figure out how to attach the carriages and lanterns to a newer set of lights. That was a huge faff and involved buying two different sets of lights (one that we can attach the lanterns and carriages to and one with white bulbs instead of multicoloured as it was cheaper than buying 40 white bulbs).

I may get bored of them, but I'm more likely to get sick of putting the tree back together after ds and the cat have played with it. I've had a miserable few weeks and the lights go someway to cheering me up.