Post Christmas Blues? - Not Me!

Family Christmas Present

Nostalgia it’s a funny feeling I get, I guess we all do.  It can be a piece of music, the perfume of the person next to you on the bus or train or for me today it was putting the Christmas decorations away.

Its 12^th night tonight in our family at least, we have always put the decorations away before the end of 12^th night.  (see there goes that tradition/nostalgia thing again!).  Various people have theories about the 12 days of Christmas and I find them hard to fathom so am sticking with what we always did!

Red White & Grey Christmas Decorations

This year for Christmas we had a red white and grey theme for the first time and I loved it!  For the last few years we have been safe with blues & greens in a peacock tail feather hue, but I decided after many forays into Pinterest; check my board called Christmas, on my interpretation of a Scandi theme.

I was pleased with the results I had bought some inexpensive decorations as well as some local hand crafted pieces in glass.  The strange feeling of nostalgia was triggered by all the vintage baubles that I had remembered having on the tree as a child.

I think we are lucky to have any vintage glass baubles to hang as over the years we have had many adventurous cats who have made it their Christmas mission to scale the dizzy heights of the tree with the inevitable crashing to the floor consequences!  I remembered Christmas morning finding a pillowcase full of fabulous stuff, usually books about ponies by the Pullen-Thompsons oh and those lovely selection boxes!  I have photos showing various family members posing next to the most clashing colour tree imaginable year upon year.

Only the hardy decorations have survived the decades and the cats and I enjoyed putting them on the tree again this year even the little red one that is scratched so it shows the silver bottom layer.  It brought on a huge feeling of nostalgia for times past and obviously, memories of family and friends no longer here. 

Some vintage and modern Christmas Decorations

I think far from making me sad it just made me smile about the past, would I ever dare to put a tree up in the house with so many colours on it today? (probably not) I also laugh about the pine needles being found months later (trees used to shed a lot and combined with the cats … well!)

The vintage baubles are wrapped up for next December and far from feeling depressed about January I have a warm fuzzy nostalgia fuelled glow to keep me going.  I have a feeling the Pinterest board will fill with more ideas during the coming year.

I hope you are able to pass on some Christmas traditions to the next generation and everyone feels the glow of nostalgia.  Oh and if you can work out why we take them down on the 5^th rather than the 6^th please can you let me know because I am, as ever confused.