We are probably the only house in our area which doesn’t have Christmas decor outside. You’re probably thinking “Hey, I thought she was OC” but my husband prefers home decor that has a clear link (sorry, marketing phrasing here) to who we are. This includes Christmas. Well, the marketing person in me liked the idea so we decided to really choose decor that represent our personalities (geez, even for decor!). We don’t use flowers and glittery balls (there’s nothing wrong with that though!!). Our Christmas lights are very minimal because I’m paranoid about fires.
So we decided to decorate our house slowly, buying playful decor or something that has some fun connection to us. Our tree still doesn’t look full but we love it. It’s fun. We feel it will really bring back memories when DD grows up (like how we become nostalgic now about RPN9 Christmas shows).
The middle part of our tree is dedicated to Toy Story. These are toys we got from those token machines in Toy Kingdom where you pay P150 to get a random toy. DH was lucky. He got 6 different Toy Story characters. We also have a few Starbucks decor on the sides.
Another section is dedicated to Star Wars – Han Solo, Yoda, C-3PO, R2D2, Boba Fett, a Storm Trooper, Chewbacca and Darth Vader (the latter 2 are there somewhere, camouflaged by the dark). There are a few more Starbucks decor which we bought last year. I don’t think these are available this year.
Both Star Wars and Toy Story decor are mini-action figures which DH put on the tree using green wire ties.
Speaking of RPN 9 Christmas shows, The top part of the tree has the characters from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – the stop-motion animation movie, which we loved as kids. Anna, the owner of My Masterpiece (DD’s amazing creative school) gifted us with a DVD 2 years back and DD just started to enjoy it. Here you can see Hermie, the elf who wants to be a dentist, Frosty the Snowman is towards the back, the Abominable Snowmonster, Santa and Rudolph.
Even the belen we chose is very cartoon-like. This photo is taken by DD herself.
However, it’s also hard to have toys as decor because DD wants to pluck them out and play with them. She already broke the angel in the belen.
The aim is to keep adding to the decor with more things we like — maybe from our travels (cute key chains?), more “classic” movies (Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings) and DD’s favorite toys (like strawberry shortcake but right now, she probably won’t want to see her strung up on the tree).
Now, to find outdoor toys to decorate the outside … and hopefully not so expensive because they might get stolen.
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This year we have a wall-e and eve ornament representing fong and I on our tree! So I can totally appreciate what you guys have been doing with yours. And it grows every year as you add on more stuff!
p.s. I super remember Rudolph stop animation!
it’s actually more fun … yet more challenging. Our house also seems bare compared to others.
what is Eve?
Hey I posted about our tree too, and how I’ve crossed over the fun side! Over the years, I have accumulated the flowers, the glittery balls and would you believe the sinamay garland. Hahaha!
Your tree looks so much fun!
Thanks! Haha, I just read your blog too. I actually wanted to ask you to make our dicut names out of foam board so we could put them on the tree – or maybe just fun holiday words. Maybe next year =)
I’ll look for ornaments from here and see if it will make it home this year (or the next). But our tree is lopsided too because Sam keeps tugging at the balls and pulling off the strings.
And then she’ll tug at the whole tree and it will collapse, so everytime we get it to stand back up, the (cheap) ornaments are in disarray. And as you saw, she puts toys in it too.
Ahahaha! I have those star wars ornaments too! Damned fan boys!
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