The tea-themed tree is up!

Ever since my tea-themed ornament collection outgrew the little pink feather tree that used to display it, I've wondered whether it's okay to subject my sweet husband to an all-tea, all-the-time tree each year, but he seems to like it as much as I do, so here we are again! I'm really just getting started on my decorating, but I am almost giddy since, for the first time since I began freelancing in 2013, I am taking the entire month of December off from editing books! Wheeeeeeee! I plan to decorate, and bake cookies, and finish the final edits on my own next book, and read some new books, and go Christmas shopping, and go to tea, and … well, naturally, I've already gotten a bit irrational about what all I can do in a month, but you get the idea. Still, putting up the small (but not tabletop) white tree was fun.

It's always so lovely to reminisce about the various tea ornaments, many (most?) of which were gifts, and some of which are souvenirs of trips to tearooms.

And this year, I was delighted to add a new teacup ornament to the tree, this cutie that was a surprise gift from my friend Joy! So was I the last one to get her Christmas tree up this year, or are some of you still in the early decorating stages of December as well?