Christmas tree decorations

I will talk in this post, Christmas tree decorations, about the new ones I got this year, most of them anyway. Last year I mentioned a few of them, I will link below.

We’ve put the tree in our new conservatory. It looks wonderful there. While the conservatory is not completely finished, we need to wait for a bit until installing the flooring as we have to wait for a month for the self-levelling compound to cure properly.

Here are the descriptions for these lovely decorations, so do have a look there if you want to read about them. The new decorations are going to be shown in the order I bought them in.

This bell is from Bucharest. I bought it in January, on our short trip there. It was after Christmas, so it’s quite nice that we found it.

An obvious Easter decoration, this was made by hand in Ukraine. I got it from a veteran market, where all the sellers are either veterans or families of veterans and fallen soldiers. I used it for décor for Easter and now again for Christmas.

A gift for Easter, from a Ukrainian friend, that I’ve decided to use as a Christmas decorations. I don’t do big displays for Easter, so it feels more suitable for Christmas.

The cute lobster is from a gift shop, from our holiday on the Isle of Wight. We both thought it was very cute and it makes for a lovely reminder of the holiday, especially as it was marking both one of our anniversaries and the first holiday with Volya.

This is not a Christmas decoration, but a small memorabilia from Stonehenge. I thought is cute, so I got it for Christmas.

This is another decoration from the veteran market in Ukraine. I loved the look of it. The pattern is similar to a Romanian one, so I had to get it. It is a big bauble, but light.

I received this dragon from an art session, made by a child and given to me on my last trip. Initially I thought I will display it, but I prefer to use it as a Christmas gift instead, to, in a way, “rediscover” it each year when I will unwrap the baubles.

The decorations in the pictures above and below are from Ukraine, which is not unsurprising at this point. These are very special, made by a friend in Kyiv, who sent these to me on a Sunday and I received them on Monday. She is very talented and I love these. I am glad I was able to support her work.
I decided to get the house in the Ukrainian colours with a heart and the mitten. The house to represent a place that is slowly becoming my home and the mitten because, after living in the UK for a long time I forgot the familiar smell of frost and I remembered it when I was in Lviv back in February.