Getting in the mood...

...for Christmas. Finally.

It struck me with force yesterday that it's a fortnight to Christmas. Two short weeks.  Now two shorts weeks minus one day.

And I have yet to do anything substantial to prepare for it.  

I've bought one or two prezzies, and have started to make one or two (but still have about a dozen to sort out).  I've bought and made some cards and have even managed to write a few (but have yet to post them). I haven't given any thought at all to menus and decorations (although I am not feeding the five thousand or inviting the Queen around to turn on the lights). 

But it's too soon.

I am not ready.

The thing is that I'm not the most well prepared of people even in a good year but this degree of it-snuck-up-on-me-ness is overwhelming and feels quite uncomfortable. Not to mention that it's the build up to Christmas that I really enjoy so I like to make it last for longer than two weeks. 

Oh well, two weeks is better than none. And I'm planning - at the very least - to decorate a tree and my apartment this weekend. Next to wrapping the gifts (which I always set an evening, some mulled wine, and a pile of mince pies aside for) decorating the tree is one of my very favourite things to do.

To get myself in the mood, I had a look back on my photographs from last year.  I went a little wild with colour and there were a few raised eyebrows at the butterfly theme (granted, not the most obviously Christmassy motif) but I liked it.  In June this year I had some vague notion that I might go with a monochrome scheme this time but as I've allowed myself to arrive at two weeks before the day and haven't done anything to prepare for that, I'll probably recycle last year's scheme. Recycling is good.

I hope your preparations are coming along well... and that you're in the mood. What's your favourite pre-Christmas thing to do?

Two weeks! 

Happy Friday!