Since I have a young and rambunctious cat, I don’t have a tree this year, so I repeated last year’s holiday decorations with a few variations. Different ornaments along the top, a better distribution of lights, and my newly cleaned-off games bookshelf gave me an opportunity to better display my complete fangirly dorkiness.

If you click the image it’ll get bigger, and you can see the nutcracker matryoshka dolls down in the lower left, the various ornaments strung along the top with the lights, and the Winnie-the-Pooh tree sculpture down the row from the nutcrackers. From left to right the ornaments are a lovely standard Christmas ball, a One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish ornament from Hallmark, a Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas ball, a Jack-in-the-Box snowman, Oogie Boogie with a wreath, a rainbow glass lightning bolt, a pewter Pooh-n-Piglet, and a blue plushie Peep a friend of mine converted to an ornament.

I also strung up some icicles to spruce up my other wall:

The items in the shadowboxes stay there all year round, though I did move the bronze roses up to the top boxes instead of the middle ones.

There’s also a few stockings hung up here and there, my Nightmare Before Christmas one is out of frame next to the shadowboxes, and I put up my set of 3 Pooh Bear ones (Pooh, Eeyore and Tigger) in the bedroom where they’ll smile at me as I drift off to sleep.

In addition, for the curious, this is the work in progress currently sitting on my easel:

All this holiday cheer is mostly for me, something to look up at when I’m working and make me smile, to remind me of all the reasons I love this time of year.

So, happy holidays to you all, whichever and whenever they are — and remember, when someone insists on a “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays,” it’s always appropriate to wish them a miserable New Year in reply.