Baubles and Stuff

Today has been a day of frantic cleaning before the Christmas decorations go up, I feel like I have mopped a football stadium.  Its going to be tricky making the house look decorated as we have only imported enough stuff for a 3 bed terrace house and are now inhabiting a 3000sq foot semi mansion.  As a result the children and I are getting creative, here are our vases full of cheap baubles, they looked good in the magazine.

Here is the professionally decorated kitchen tree, it may get redecorated with some lights on when I've bought some or borrowed some from Gary.  I watched a demonstration on how to best decorate your tree at a ladies fund raiser for school, it's odd but they didn't mention the give half the decorations to each of your children and end up with a tree that has a large collection of things at the bottom of one side and another about half way up the other side with nothing in between method.  They obviously don't everything after all.