o christmas tree o christmas tree! {giveaway}

This weekend I finally got my act together and organised for Christmas decorations, including tree to go up! Josh was really excited this year about it, and was keen to help, so he was given the honorary role of placing the star atop the tree at the end.

I also quickly came to a deeper understanding of advent calendars and their fabulous ability to help children better understand that you need to wait for Christmas to come. Josh thought that putting the Christmas tree up meant instant presents. Ah......no. So out came our lovely little advent calendar that I bought last year. It has little paper decorations that you open each day to place in the tree. Very cute.

I also got busy putting up some wall decals - snowflakes behind our tree.....

and gorgeous Merry Christmas bunting to continue our red and white theme.

Just for good measure, here is a pic of my resident cheeky chops, trying to get up on to the table to have a look at our advent calendar that I have been trying to keep out of reach of said cheeky chops' hands!!

The lovely people at Bosco Bear were kind enough to give me the lovely Christmas wall decals to try out. I was super excited to do this as I had a look at their designs and really loved them and also the fact that they would fit right into the colour scheme we had going on here. I'm a novice with wall decals. Zoe has a few in her room but these are fully removable so I wasn't as nervous at putting them up, knowing I could easily remove and replace. I was a bit more scared about getting these ones right.

It's important to test out the decals on the surface you intend to stick them on first, and these came with a test sticker which I used all weekend, peeled off after 48hrs, and found it was perfectly fine! So I got to work arranging them. Both the snow flakes and the bunting were really easy to put up. For the bunting I just measured out two pieces of string the length of the bunting flags and taped them onto the wall and used them as a guide. Easy! The decals also came with very easy to read instructions too if you need a bit more guidance.

Overall I'm really pleased with the look. The quality of the decals is great too and the designs on the bunting are so cute and even include some vintagey looking designs.

Generously, Bosco Bear have given me an extra set of each of the decals you see in my dining room above to give away! You could win either the red and white snowflakes decals (valued at $15.95) or the red and white Merry Christmas bunting flags (valued at $29.95). Just leave me a comment below telling me your favourite Christmas carol and you could win! I will randomly select two comments and announce the winner next Monday 13 December, entries will close Sunday 12 December at 7pm Sydney time.

PS. I'll still allow you an entry for leaving a comment without a favourite carol too, just for reading this far!