Decorating for Christmas

Selecting reasonable Christmas decorations when spending Christmas thousands of miles from home can be a bit of a challenge. Trees, lights, and other large, traditional decorations can be quite expensive and useless to take home at the end of the year, so a little creativity is in order. Will and I began decorating after receiving our most recent care package from Mom and Dad, which included candy canes, fall leaves made of felt, two Christmas guest towels, and a rubber ducky dressed up as a reindeer. We bought a tiny tree for £1 at Poundland and decorated it with the fall leaves and candy canes. We also decorated it with some small Christmas crackers, also purchased at Poundland. Then, we went to Cancer Research UK and bought a set of tiny ornaments and three angels, one holding a candle, another holding a wreath, and a third with its hand clasped together. We placed the angels on top of a row of Will's naval history books, surrounded by Christmas crackers. (We're planning to give the angels to Mom, Granna, and Will's Grandmommy when we get back to the U.S., so they are serving dual purposes.) We then put the ornaments on the little tree and placed the tree and the rubber ducky in front of the row of books, and next to the nativity scene Will bought me for Christmas a while back. We made the guest towel into wall hangings, and we strung a piece of green rope that we've had sitting around for a while across two of the walls in the living room and hung cards on it. I think they look quite nice.