Christmas inspiration

For today, because it is Christmas Eve after all, a bit of tree inspiration is in order. We didn’t set up a Christmas tree this year, because of different reasons, but I did decorate the house, well I have a semi tree too, it’s so funny.

A friend of mine came over today to exchange gifts, drink hot chocolate and taste butter biscuits, my favorite this season, and I was telling her about my amazing two foot tall gold decorated Christmas tree and she actually believed me, her reaction when she saw my actual tree was priceless. My favorite trees and rooms are the red & white one with more traditional sofas, but I can’t say I don’t love the other ones either. I’m sucker for Christmas, what can I say.

I wish you a very Merry Christmas and hope that you’ve been nice this year and Santa will bring you lot of goodies!!

ps : The custom of erecting a decorated Christmas tree can be historically traced back at least as far as 15th century Livonia and 16th century Northern Germany. According to the first documented uses of a Christmas tree in Estonia, in 1441, 1442, and 1514, the Brotherhood of Blackheads erected a tree for the holidays[clarification needed] in their brotherhood house in Reval (now Tallinn). At the last night of the celebrations leading up to the holidays,[clarification needed] the tree was taken to the Town Hall Square where the members of the brotherhood danced around it.[9] In 1584, the pastor and chronicler Balthasar Russow wrote of an established tradition of setting up a decorated spruce at the market square where the young men “went with a flock of maidens and women, first sang and danced there and then set the tree aflame”… according to Wikipedia.