Standard obligatory post on my Christmas decorations!! This is something for me to look back on and hopefully will give some people inspiration for their decorations.
I have been a bit late in putting up the decorations this year, with a newborn I just didn't get round to it.
I decorated my kitchen first, the colour theme is mainly red and gold but I am not too fussy if some other colours sneak in. I decorate my welsh dresser. I am hoping to strip and paint this before next year so may have to rethink the decorations for next Christmas (excuse to go shopping!). This is where I hang all my delicate ornaments so that the cats cannot get to them (on to them later) also it houses my advent tree that my Mum let me take with me when I moved out.
I also hang baubles around my kitchen window, add baubles to my birdcage (I bought a few of these for my wedding) and put up my homemade star wreath.
Another room I have made a little more like Christmas is our bedroom, I am thinking that for Christmas morning I will put one present for each of us under this tree to open in bed before my husband has to go to a work (he is a dairy farmer).
I have gone with gold / natural for this tree with gold glass angels (again the cats cannot get to this tree) and some nature ornaments I bought from Homebase along with the tree. I made the star to go on top as forgot to buy one.
Now onto the tree!! Last year I put it in the kitchen to stay away from our Bengal tiger cats. That wasn't possible this year so we decided to see what we could get away with. So we put the tree up and put the lights on, I used 480 lights!! My husband was mortified when I came home with this many lights but it looked amazing. Rather than just stringing the lights round and round I went in and out of the branches to give some more depth. I read this on Pinterest and think it looked really effective.
The only picture I have is the tree on the floor after one of the cats took it down (apologies for quality the picture is from my phone), since then I have discovered the lights don't work, The cable has been chewed so that is the end of my lights!! I think I will put the tree up in the dining room.
So this is how the cats have ruined Christmas - well in my living room at least.
Does anyone have any tips on cat proofing my Christmas.
Em x
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