Bunty Cupcake decorations - your favourites here please......

[wildstrawberry]

I'll start...... candy canes

I'm not sure candy canes count when you can buy a box for 99p in Wilkinsons!

homemade paper chains made from beautiful wrapping paper

retro pastel coloured fairy lights

Strings of real dried fruit, and spices, like cinnamon sticks, and dried bits of orange, and chillis.

popcorn

felt hearts

Anything Shaker style, and distressed (like these), though I have to say, that's the sort of style I like .

Why mock people who try to make things look nice?

I keep reading threads about 'mean girls' lately, and this sort of thing perpetuates the 'let's laugh at everyone who doesn't do things the way we do' culture.

I'm a lazy old cow but I make half-hearted attempts occasionally, which are always much appreciated by my DCs.

Get a life.

would you dry your own fruit - like on the Radiator?!

oooh harsh there katch - is it judgey?

i have paperchains and homemade snowflakes

strings of dried smelly stuff sounds great - how do you do it?

I'm really only gently mocking myself, Katch - I like this kind of stuff . Custy, I think probably in a low oven, for ages (haven't done it, though - just seen in mags/catalogues).

How to make them. Do you have an Aga, Custy? I think they're de rigeur .

Sorry suffered a SOH loss.

(I have an Aga, and I can reveal you wash the slices in Milton, the leave them overnight on the Aga lid (on a teatowel or a matching Aga protective cover).

not having tinsel (includes self i hate tinsel)

@ you having an Aga. Our cooker is one like this. As un-bunting and cupcake as you can get, I suspect .

I am gently mocking too. I have Cath Kidston teatowels, for god's sake. Though I do have lots of tinsel too.

I'm TODALLY Cath'd up this Christmas.

I have just finished pressing my bargainous 19p teatowels from Ikea which look like something The White Company would sell. I shall be using them on the 25th as napkins.

Agree, we wouldn't mock ch*vs at Christmas, lets not mock us heart shaped distressed painted zinc enamelled ticking loving gals.