Holiday spirit

[mistressofmuses]

Pictured: me.

I am not typically very enthusiastic about the holidays. There are lots of serious downer reasons that I could blame it on, but typically I pick the more light-hearted "I spent years in food-retail, and the month of inescapable Christmas music every year made my soul shrivel up."

This year, I'm feeling weirdly full of holiday spirit. It's scaring me, too.

We bought a small black Christmas tree to add to our smaller silver one. And we've decorated both of them! I'm pretty happy with them!


Not stunning pictures, but I think it gets the point across.

Having the two trees let us split up the color scheme. Rainbow lights + white lights + green/red/gold ornaments on the black tree, and purple lights + silver/blue ornaments on the silver tree.



The little silver, blue, and purple one.


And all lit up!

Alex also put up some lights in the window:



I appreciate that Alex has been a very good sport about my enthusiasm! (He typically is; he did not historically have great holidays as a kid, and so has a pretty unfavorable outlook on them as a whole, but has always tried to stay reasonably positive for them. And I try to make them good, too!)

Now I guess I need to not burn out on that enthusiasm in the next twenty days, haha.

Comments

[re_vised]

Oh, why have I not realized I can buy a black Christmas tree until now? That would fit in with us!

[mistressofmuses]

The black Christmas tree is perfect! The one we got is 3ft, but I was shocked at how many different options there were for black ones!

[spikedluv]

Love the silver tree with the purple, as you could predict. *g* I'm glad you're feeling the holiday spirit this year.

[mistressofmuses]

Shocking that you would also like that color scheme! ;)

I am enjoying feeling a little festive! I'd expected to be even less holiday-cheery this year because there was so much holiday advertising and stuff in stores so much earlier than even usual, and I was already feeling fed up with it by the time Halloween rolled around. And yet! I've luckily apparently blocked out the bits that annoyed me, ha.

[omens]

Your shiny reindeer toppers are blowing my miiiind!! They look so good! I don't have any xmas spirit but I'm faking it really well this year, lol. The lights are cheerful and I need them :D

[mistressofmuses]

I'm glad you like them! They're ornaments purchased in different years, but I love using them as tree toppers!

I feel like I'm usually on the faking it side... I hope that it maybe tips into genuine xmas spirit! Or at least that the faking it is fun.

I do enjoy the lights... that is always one of the parts of the season that I like.

[adore]

Omg the silver one is so gorgeous! With the glittery stag on top!

[mistressofmuses]

Thank you! I love the stag as a tree topper, and was happy that the colors all worked so well.

[umadoshi]

I love your pair of trees! *^^*

[mistressofmuses]

Thank you! ^^