Decorations

The sun is shining brightly but it is very cold.  I thought I would share some of our Christmas decorations with you today although the camera never really does justice to lights unless you are a professional with thousands of pounds worth of equipment.

This first one is on the outside of our bedroom window (our bedroom is at the front of the property)

All the tiny lights in the tree twinkle and flash and it is really very bright and pretty. The lights you can see behind the Christmas tree are actually in our bedroom, yes we do have lights in there are well, around the dressing table mirror and the angel hanging on the wall. Nice to lie in bed reading in the warm glow of Christmas lighting.

These lovely candles are on our dining room window which is also at the front of our home.

Here is the snowman on our porch roof, some of you will remember him from last year, he is a regular and has been for years.

Put them all together and add some rope lights and you get this effect from outside.  Nathan wants to stay out there and stare at them all the time because the rope lights are chaser lights and constantly on the move, along with the flickering candles and the sparkling tree.

The rope lights do not go around the dining room window unfortunately but we think we have enough.  For one thing we do not have enough sockets and even with extension leads it can be a nightmare sorting everything out and the glow from our home is already bright enough, we do not want to dazzle the neighbours too much.  I must say we do attract carol singers like a magnet as we are about the only people at this end of the street to bother. Down the other end of the road nearly everyone decorates their houses.

Now for some inside pictures.

This was taken earlier this morning when I tried to capture the sunlight on the tinsel.

Here is our new fibre optic tree

It truly does not do it justice. It is much brighter than this and Nathan loves playing with the branches, they fascinate him.  You can see our rope lights outside the back of our property and the illuminated reindeer in the back garden.

I just had to post this next one . With our patio doors you get double reflections as you look out through them and it seems we have many more lights than we do.  It is beautiful to see in the evenings.

This next one was taken from our garden looking back towards the rear of the property

Finally, another Christmas tree we have in the lounge as our main one is in the sunlounge.  I quite fancied trying these new LED lights and I must say I do like them.  Not sure I would want masses on the outside of the property because they are very bright,  but I do like the effect that this tree gives

A couple of years back, Mike and I had got to the stage where we did not want to bother much, just the two of us here and a lot of work involved, but now we have Nathan and Daniel it is all worthwhile and we want to make it as much a winter wonderland as we can for them. From the delight shown  by Nathan, it has all been worthwhile.

I hope you have enjoyed this little peep into our Christmas world today and I hope you are all enjoying putting up your decorations as well.

Have a wonderful day everyone.