Ho Ho Ho!

It's christmas time! Christmas songs, decoration and present all over the place. The time of year that goes by so fast and you find no time doing anything except the preparation for christmas. What did I do?

Presents

While I still was in Graz until the 18th of December, I had to get presents before driving home, since Graz has a lot more than my little town Steyr. My students home had problems, as so often, with the internet so I decided to get my shopping for presents done.

Depot - CityPark

I decided to go to the shopping center "CityPark", which is near my students home. Once arrived I already was clueless what to get. I discovered a nice decoration shop when I walked passed all the other shops and I decided to have a look in there. The shop is called "Depot" and is at the first floor or the shopping center. 

I was so surprised that they had so many neat things you can easily gift someone without having to worry if they'd like it or not, because they definitely would! They have all sorts of decorations starting from nicely decorated cups up to cushions and small but effective decoaration. It was the perfect store to find all the presents I needed, well most of them.

Since I wasn't done yet buying presents for everyone, I went to "Saturn" at the top floor and bought a few more things.

Unfortunatey there wasn't enough time to wrap them on my own and because I'm so lucky, I discovered a wrapping place which was all for free. The, as they called themselfs, fairies were really amazed by my presents and asked me straight away where I got them from, so I told them. I have a knack for presents :)

Decoration

Since I came home very late and my family didn't have much time either, we decided to decoarate the christmas tree just yesterday. My family is very fussy when it comes to decorating. Everything always looks spot on perfect and is always nicely decorated. The table has a different kind of tablecloth and fitting napkins with reindeers and other decoration on it. All the windows have christmas stickers on them and ornaments hanging down and a lot of athmospheric lights, like candles and holiday lights.

But back to the christmas tree. I couldn't be there when my family bought the christmas tree, but for an accident they bought a premium tree which was a little more expensive than a normal one. It is also a lot better looking than the normal ones.

Once the tree was settled we started decorating. First we started to spray the tree with artifical snow spray to give it a snowy look. We still have no snow yet, so it is nice to have the tree a bit white at least. Once that was done we continued with hanging up the fairy lights. The fairy lights are such a pain to get perfect onto the tree, especially when they are not one-ended. After a half hour we managed finally. Now we set the main clothing of the tree, we continued with the ornaments. My family tends to buy a few new ones every year, so our collection is quiet big. We have birds, reindeers, butterflies, angels, snowflakes, ornaments with glitter and of course some casual ornaments.

As always the tree turned out very nicely. I can't wait until tomorrow, because I really love seeing the happy faces when everyone unwrapped their presents. Last year we had way too many, but this year it's luckily not as much, because we had problems fitting them all under the tree.

Everyone a very merry christmas and enjoy being with your family!