Hodge Podge Feeling the love
This year as I said is going to be special for us, our family is reunited, and we will get to see our grownup children and grandchildren over the holiday. That I’m really looking forward to.
Christmas Eve we’re going to be following our family tradition and making cookies, drinking hot chocolate and settling down to watch the snowman just before bed. I love looking round the room and seeing them all cuddled up with blankies, soft lighting, wearing their Jim-jams, you can feel the love.
There’s something almost magical about the evening and we go to bed feeling happy and content. And hopefully this year will be the same.
We have our tree up now. It’s in the corner of the room and has some decorations on it, not too many, I was thinking that with the plain baubles we have I’ll decorate a few, put some ribbon on them or dip some of them in glue then glitter, maybe paint a couple, just to personalize them. Mass produced decorations are not generally attractive to me.
I usually use acrylic paint, but when painting on baubles I use a little crushed chalk mixed in with the paint as it stands out better on the bauble and looks more realistic and shows up better. The writing is done with a good pen for labelling I find, these baubles may not be perfect, but they are personalized, you could even write the names of your children or first Christmas, anything. Can’t get more individual than that.
Here’s what I’ve done so far, and it didn’t take me long. It makes the tree homely.