I love decorating the Christmas tree and this is the second year that I've had the sole responsibility of doing it. I'm not very Christmas spirity when I put the decorations up, it's more of a "TRY TO INTERFERE AND I WILL STAB YOU IN YOUR SLEEP" kind of affair. Monica Gellar on speed. When I have children I'll obviously encourage them to join in, but I don't have children. I have every right to be be a Christmas control freak. Yey!

This is the first Christmas in a long time that my family won't be in America, but you can definitely see the American influence to our 'holiday spirit'. Most of our decorations come from the US and this year we seem to be going with a bit of a rodeo theme. Most of these ones are being debuted on the tree for the first time this year and come from Kurt S. Adler and Seasons of Cannon Falls. I love them! And they remind me that I need to get on with finding a cowboy of my own.

Elsewhere in the house are other pretty Christmassy things, again mostly from the US. Some of the decorations are from closer to home though, like the Russian dolls from...errr...Prague.  

I like when our house is full of Christmasness. Just need Heather to come home and force the cat to wear his Santa outfit (really) and we'll be all set :-D