How I decorate my room for Christmas!

My favourite thing to do this time of year is decorate the house top to bottom in Christmas decorations. When it comes to decorations I love the traditional colours; Greens, Reds,White. This year I wanted t get a new tree for my bedroom as my last tree is about 5yrs old and has gone completely flat one side and looks a complete mess when its up. My new tree I have had up since the 17th November, I couldn't just leave it in the box and wait until December 1st. I wanted to share with you the way I decorate my room for the Christmas season.

View of my room from outside, Last year on my door I had a wreath but I have no idea where that has gone. For now I have a wooden 'Merry Christmas' Sign from Tesco £1.

Behind my door I have a wicker basket which normally is in front of the radiator. On this I have a cushion from Primark, Tiger from Kipper which I brought from a Wildlife Park, My Mum's old film Camera and Beanie Babies tree decorations. I have no idea where these are from we have had them for a long time.

On my wardrobe I have the cutest reindeer decoration again from Tesco £1.50.

On my shelf's I don't have many Christmas decorations, Hanging of I have a Gold glitter bird cage from Next last year, I think this was £3.50. They wont have this any more but I think they do something similar but regardless look at Next Christmas decorations as they are amazing. I keep this up all year, I love decorations that aren't to christmassy and can be kept up all year. The other thing on myself is a Winnie the pooh decoration, his little lantern used to light up red. This used to belong to my Grandma, I don't have a clue where this came from, I remember it on her tree when I was alot younger and it used to be one of my favourite decorations.

I love having Lights around my bed these ones are from the pound shop but you can get lights like this any where. Also hanging on my bed I have a Tree decoration that's meant to look like gingerbread, This came in a set of three; Tree, House and Ginger bread man from again Pound land, last year. Just above my bed I have a Deer head decoration wearing a Christmas bow, This was £1.50 from Tesco and another Winnie the Pooh bell decoration which belonged to my Grandma.

Save the best for last...The Tree!!

The tree it's self was £5.99 from Homebase half price. Lights - £1 Pound land. Red and Green small baubles set of 24 for £1.50- Tesco. Red and White bells (Not sure on the price) Wooden Robin- £1.50, Father Christmas- £1.50, Cinnamon Sticks- £1 ALL from Wilkinsons. Nutcracker- £1 Tesco.

Christmas feeling already....

I know its only mid September but im already starting to feel christmassy apart from the weird weather. There are Christmas Chocolate isles in Tesco, Advent Calenders out and a whole section in The Range dedicated to Christmas decorations and lighting. Im tooooo excited i just want to get the tree up, wrap presents, decorate and watch Christmas films in oversized woolly jumpers. As soon as Halloween has been and gone i know its not long until Christmas.

Had to be included National Lampoon Christmas Vacation is my absolute favourite Christmas film, i look forward to watching it every year.

I have always LOVED the vintage, country looking Christmas decorations you can get and make your self, this year it is the style i plan to go for. Ive always been inspired by the Christmas cooking programs for decorations. I have a list of Christmas Craft ideas i want to do on my computer such as Bunting, Christmas Cards and Gift tags and decorations in general. Im almost tempted to starting making everything now so its all ready to put up in December.

I was looking through Etsy for some Halloween ideas that i could make and do for my brother. My family isn't a fan of Halloween at all but i always want to make sure i can do something for my younger brother, for example dress him up and have some edible gory looking foods for him to eat. I found this was a great place to look for Inspiration for all events such as weddings, Halloween, Birthdays ect, plus if you haven't got time to make the things you find but want them up you can buy them. From Looking at Etsy it has given me alot of inspiration for Christmas things such as the Vintage looking Christmas Cards and Christmas tags. It has so much Christmas stuff to buy and get inspiration from on there...its like heaven for someone who likes crafts or anything like that.

My Grandma got me into crafts/card making around 3/4 years ago now,she always makes the best cards, Pop up cards with little mice illustrations dressed up like humans at Christmas and Cards inspired by the Snowman and Father Christmas films. This time last year we moved into our new house so there was alot of mess and boxes around so we couldn't really have anything up and i was the one who had to force my family to go out and buy the Christmas tree. This year I want to do Christmas,I want to be the one to decorate everything in a very vintage Christmas style. I want to have help from my Grandma to make some really nice Vintage Christmas cards and tags.

 You know it Christmas when you see this on TV.

I will definitely be doing some Christmas Craft posts closer to Christmas, Im far to excited to start making everything. I will hopefully be doing some Halloween Craft posts so look out for them. I would like to let you know though by the app on my iPod* it is exactly.....

* Im not a sad person who has an app to tell her how long it is until Christmas it countdowns to any certain date you type in on the app to tell you how many days it is.