Slow day today

I've been plagued with another migraine last night/today so that's put the brakes on getting much stitching done - I did manage to get a couple of hours done, though, and did the stitching on a Mill Hill Christmas ornament - just need to do the beaded tassel and finish it off ... another one of the finishing pile for later in the week :) Instead today I've done exciting things like tidying the kitchen up and doing the dishes ... and something a bit more fun, like getting the Christmas tree half-finished. It's only a small one, so didn't take very long at all ... lights are on, and so is the tinsel and angel ... just the Christmas balls and it's finished. It's only 4ft in height, so my soon-to-be-finished Christmas ornies won't fit on it until I can afford a bigger tree - so they're going to be hung from the window sill, from a 'teddy chain'. It's definitely feeling more festive now there's a bit of decoration in the flat - even though I'm living on my own now, I was still determined to put my tree up ... I adore Christmas trees - and I always swore my Mum's tree was the best in the world ... I used to start nagging for her to put it up as soon as 1 December came - and Dad used to love sitting in the dark, with just the tree lights on ... one of my fave Christmas memories :))

Here's Mum's tree - that puts mine to shame ...