An update

As an update to my Christmas Decorating post, I have the fireplace done.
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Christmas decorating...

I seem to feel stupidly inspired around this time of year, and while I have an urge to use the fireplace as a focal point (aside from the garishly personalised-by-children decorated tree) it's been stupidly cold here (it's summer!) and the heater is in front of it. If I can manage to get the heater put away before Christmas day I'll probably end up filling the fireplace with left over Christmas baubles.
Meanwhile, as a focal point for the table, I'll be filling a lovely straight edge Maxwell Williams vase (which I discovered at a home gifts store here in town for less than $20) with the small gold and silver baubles we have. I tried putting oranges into the vase, but the tennis ball size oranges don't fit very well into the vase, so it will have to be the small (maximum of 3 cm diameter) baubles it will have to be.

Meanwhile, the wreath is on the door, the 150cm tree is up (though the star keeps falling off), and I am still not at all prepared - though I'm halfway through paying off the meat order.
And there's not even 3 weeks to go!

The Christmas Wreath

So, we finally have a lovely old fashioned house, where we can actually have a Christmas wreath on the front door.

And yanno, I love this. I just don't like any almost all of the wreaths I've seen so far.

And since we use a different colour each year (we didn't last year, because we were at That Woman's house, so were stuck with her decorations), I wanted to make a wreath in the colours we are using.

And then I thought about it, and figured I could make on in almost all colours, and then use it year after year after year.

So, I thought of what I wanted. Instead, I ended up listing what I don't want.

• I don't want an evergreen wreath.
• I don't want a shopping bag wreath.
• I don't want something that will date too easily.
• I don't want something boring.

So, I figure I'll make a Christmas bauble wreath. It looks easy, the kids can help, I can use all sorts of colours and textures.

It's modern, fun, and still Christmas-y.

In vaguely related news, I refuse to put icicles out the front. I also will not be using traditional Christmas lights.

I'm thinking dragonfly shaped outdoor lights along the verandah - it has some lovely fret work that will look stunning with lights draped from it.