Christmas Has Hit The World of Kitsch House
/Long-term World of Kitsch readers will probably already recognise these decorations from every other year, but if you've only joined me in the past 12 months, then let me show you my Christmas goodies.
This is is the second year with our fake Lidl tree, and I've seen the same one in stores again this Christmas. It's decent for a fake, and necessary as now it's just Smix & me, I can't carry or saw & prepare a real tree like previous years.
If you are after a real tree then IKEA is your best place to get one. They sell them fairly cheap and you get a voucher to spend in store in January with no minimum spend, to almost the price of the tree too. You'd be mad going anywhere else.
My decorations are a collection of vintage birds bought on eBay, giant candy canes, pudding baubles and oversized retro style lights.
Pheasant with real feather tail, vintage from eBay.
No tree is complete without a Christmas craft by your little one. We don't have a star so every year I top the tree with this angel Smix must have made in nursery or P1. I like themed trees and to a point mine is, but you always need a few personal, dare I say it, messy & mismatching ornaments to set it apart from a tree you'd see in the window of a shop.
My white birds are from Tesco a few years ago, but they had them last year again so if you like them it might be worth checking your local store to see if they've migrated back for this winter too.
The foot long, glitter candy canes were a really lucky discount buy when Dickson's Garden Centre in Bangor was closing down. I've three of them and they are definitely my absolute favourite ornaments.
Named Christmas baubles for the family seem to be the new big thing and you can support a local business by ordering a personalised bauble from Baked in Belfast. They also hand paint beautiful Christmas plates and platters with family names.
Christmas in my house without a touch of tack would be no Christmas at all. I have this ugly deer bauble from the 70s who hides amongs the branches of the Christmas tree.
My top tacky item however is this singing Santa & reindeer that jumps along and for some reason features a light up face. My Mum brought it back from Tenerife & it's horrified us ever since.
My stag head barometer is a bit 'Bates Motel at Christmas time' in the hall.
I loved the print on this advent calendar, £1 from Tiger Stores. I also got the matching wrapping paper at just £1 a roll.
Smix's Christmas tree is a village of little cardboard houses I got from Lidl, and filled with sweets & tiny toys. Dec 1st was this cute gnome snowglobe from Tiger too.
Okay, so don't laugh at Smix's room tree! His old one got binned in our house move last February, so we needed to go buy a replacement at tea time tonight. Tesco only had green 6ft ones, so we tried B&M Bargains. Weirdly they didn't have their trees with each pre-built so you could judge what you were buying, and you can see why.
This 3.5ft black tree was £6.99 & it is..well...lacking in Christmas spirit to put it mildly.
Smix seems pleased with it though, and along with singing lights decorating his window, he's all set.
Merry Christmas from The World of Kitsch, Claire & Smix!
