We brought home a Christmas tree this weekend, and immediately it feels like Christmas is actually near.

As usual, the tree looks lovelier in real life than in a photo. When I am in the same room with it, it has just the right amount of glitter and bling on it – but in a photo, it still looks somewhat bare. Probably because I’m unconsciously comparing the photo to the over-decorated trees in stock photos, whereas the tree on its own has no such expectations to live up to.

It’s secured against tipping by climbing cats, as usual, and has no fragile ornaments on the lowest boughs. Nevertheless Nysse managed to knock down and break a plastic bauble on the first day.