15 December 2013

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

Hello twinkle! 

Have you had a nice weekend?

The season of goodwill, glitter and excess is definitely in full swing around here. Last Saturday, I got up early specifically to nip round to Argos and buy a Christmas tree. I opted for the Majestic Tree (due to the name, obviously) and these Decadence baubles*. 

This year's festive decorations appear far more grown up and put-together than previous efforts, because I decided to use a colour scheme. Fancy, eh? Want to guess what it is?

Nope. It's not every-colour-under-the-sun-in-a-massive-headache-inducing-mishmash. It's monochrome. Sophisticated and fancy, eh? 



Ok, ok, so our tree still has painted plastic animals on it (Christmas Hippos are totally a thing, right?) 



And I've substituted tinsel with a handful of tacky plastic necklaces I already owned...



The branches are topped with polar bear pegs, a present from this year's birthday....



And it also includes a dinosaur or two. Obviously. 

But apart from that, it's super sophisticated. 


I've even continued the theme with my presents, by wrapping them in a roll of wallpaper (Hawthorn, in charcoal) from Laura Ashley; which I nabbed in a recent sale for a mere £6. I've managed to wrap all of my gifts in just over half of the 10m roll, so I'm intending to make some of these over-sized beauties with the rest (which I've just noticed are from Laura Ashley's blog. Spooky). 



I've tried to flex my creative muscles to add a little personalised decoration to each parcel; from Paperchase alphabet badges, to foam letters, colourful ribbons, glittery stickers and playing card tags.






My snowflakes and candy canes didn't make the cut for the tree, because they weren't monochrome enough; but they're still on display on our living room crates, along with my light-up mega bauble from DotComGiftShop. All I need now are some baubles to fill my lamp



Do you have your tree up yet (if you're having one)? Have you ever had a theme for your Xmas decs? 

Katie xxx

*I promise this post isn't in collaboration with Argos; it's just local to me and they had a half price sale on!




12 comments:

  1. Hey! OOh, it's preeeetty!!! I love the monochrome sophistication! My first Christmas tree in at least 6 years is rather more ramshackle- we have an assortment of bells and ornaments that I had put away in my 'presents box' (I always buy nice things I see as potential presents for friends and family) so I used those and my MiL bought us some white lights!x

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    1. I have no doubt that next year will be full-on ramshackle and probably neon. There's only so long I can maintain an illusion of being a grown-up and, to be honest, I like a little ramshackle. Wishing you and CBC a very merry Christmas! xxx

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  2. Christmas dinosaurs should definitely be a thing :) x

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  3. UH! Wrapping pressies in wallpaper is sheer genius Katie! Why did I not think of that? I have dozens of rolls.
    And it just wouldn't be Christmas without dinosaurs! Especially snowy white ones. The tree looks great and I love the necklace idea too. Did you link them all together? xxx

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    1. You could always do it for birthdays if it's too late for Christmas? :) Thank you very much- you're absolutely right about the snowy dinosaurs! I left the necklaces separate in the end, but mostly because I wanted to space them around on the tree. xxx

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  4. I think your tree looks fab and sophisticated! It's perfect! I love the wallpaper wrap - the gifts look great, and sophisticated, too! I'm being all 'bah humbug' this year - I got the decorations out then decided I can't be bothered this year and I've put them away! We have brought our christmas tree indoors, bit it might be dead (as shown in my week 49 happy post recently!) and we haven't decorated it so Christmas is a rather sorry affair around here!

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    1. Bless your poor tree! Is it looking any better now? I think Tom wishes I'd been a grinch this year- the day I did the decorating I heard him shouting and yelling so came rushing downstairs thinking he'd hurt himself. He was just yelling because there were apparently "too many paperchains!" Pff!! Haha xxx

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  5. I love your alternative dinosaur and hippo decorations. Have you seen the robot decorations as paper chase? I was soo tempted to buy one today!

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  6. I think it looks fab! Loving the dinosaurs and hippos - it's the little things that make the tree special methinks :-) xxx

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  7. Your tree looks lovely and I love all the animal and dinosaur ornaments! We don't have a tree unfortunately. My one cat climbs them and he broke my last one because it kept falling over (we had a fake tree). But I still have the apartment decorated with wreaths, snow globes, figurines and an adorable fox in a Santa hat.

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    1. The Santa fox sounds amazing! Off to check your blog for photos in case I missed it. I don't have a wreath this year- started making one today but isn't going as well as I'd planned. Might have to wait until next Christmas! :) xxx

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