My tree is up!

On Saturday night I spent a nice evening relaxing - drinking hot chocolate and decorating my Christmas tree.

I used a Martha Stewart recipe for Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate

The jury is still out!  It was fabulously creamy (maybe a little too creamy?) and very rich, and beautifully chocolatey - but the peanut butter was an addition too far and probably not needed...

I am delighted with my tree!  Because my apartment is so small I had to buy a very thin tree which would not be my style of choice.  I like a big wide thick tree.  This one is a good height though (7ft) and with my Barbie doll/angel on top it makes it taller.  All in all I think it looks great and as I said I'm very happy with it.

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And in other news I won a competition in work and the prize is a 121 training session with personal trainer Karl Henry from RTE's Operation Transformation. I guess it will come in useful in January!

Christmas tree 2015

 Perched at the top of my tree is my vintage 20 year old Barbie doll as the Christmas tree fairy / angel

 

The white fairy sets the tone for the tree and for the last couple of years I have decorated my tree all silver and white.  I think it works well.  BUT!  It is not my favourite Christmas tree.  My favourite tree is my twin sister Enid's tree.  Enid is of LPA Rebuild and you can see more pics of her tree over there.

 

 In the meantime my sister Kate sent me this photo of my tree and Enid's side by side.

How different are these for identical twins?!

 

What style do you decorate your tree?