Those weeks leading up to December 24th are for me one of the most creative ones – there are presents to think of (and make), decorations to prepare, cookies to bake, the apartment to pimp-up, Christmas markets to visit, moose to hunt – and so much more.
This year I’ve started with something quite original – let’s call it a “modernistic Christmas tree.” I got the idea when I saw the silver “hanger” on display in the gardening centre – it looks a bit like a tree, with a silver stem which near the top divides into a number of cascading silver wires, each of them finished with a clasp – as you can see on the photos above. You can use it for displaying all sorts of things – pictures, beads, small stuffed animals – but you can also use it for hanging Christmas decorations – the way I did. The only thing is that here in Holland some of these decorations are quite non-Christmas looking (at least to me) and include birds, feathers, Indonesian-style beads and many others. So the final result is also rather…original, as well as splashy and glittery, but also creative – our own modernistic Christmas tree (although I do miss the green of the real thing – I’ll need to get one of these too).