Quest for Christmas: The Tree

As if we didn't have enough Christmas trees this week. Rebecca and I decided to make our flat a bit more festive and commit to putting up the tree.We put on some Christmas music as is tradition, and laid out all the bits and pieces for decorating.

Still feels a bit funny to put up a fake tree, it was hugely entertaining to unfold all the metal hooks and pieces as it all fell into place in a very satisfying way. Our family goes all out for real trees typically, while more authentic, they do have a habit of dragging in bucketloads of needles. At least with this one there is minimal mess.

Rebecca was seriously into the composition of the tree and the ornaments, I managed to get this cheeky shot of her deliberating where to put the worlds smallest bauble - extremely dedicated.

Just as I started to run out of good Christmas songs, we were all done, the final thing looking like this:

Really brightens up that corner of the room now, and we even got the little robin I bought in first year perched on top once again. Usually he's stuck on our bookshelf, but every Christmas he sits on high.

Now the tree is up I feel like Christmas is really starting to get into full swing. I'm already looking forward to watching more films and read some books under it's branches. Christmas has officially entered our flat!