of christmas trees and cupcakes

not too long ago, norway was hit by the trend of cupcake making and various products. while i THINK its waning, i just got bitten by the cupcake craze... which resulted in.. well...cupcakes and a exasperated husband XD

why? i have alot of cupcakes now. starting with a coin bank on the left, and a trinket holder on the right. useful because i tend to dump my jewellery on the table now and then.
then i have a HUGE cookie jar........ its filled with sweets and chocolates at the moment. this was on 50% post xmas sale, so hoorah.

and then i have more 50% off cucpakes, which are currently on my happy xmas tree! these are mini and really cute XDof course i also have a few normal sized cupcake ornaments, all but the huge looking one was on 50% off. Its not THAT huge, i lifted it out so it would show up in the picture, as its the prettiest one in my collection XD
and while i'm showing ornaments i might as well show off most of the rest hehehe

all of these were bought at 10 for 100nkr, me and mary split. thats really dirt cheap considering most of them are glass ornaments, and those usually sell for at least 30nkr and up for this size. the cutest here is the hedgehog on the lower left corner and the squirrel on the lower right. TEE HEE HEE.
then i got some mini ornaments from Nille (cheap store) at 12 for 59nkr. i thought some were really cute, although i wonder what a hot dog has got to do with xmas. This ideally goes onto my $2-bought-in-daiso tree which i didnt get the chance to take out and decorate this year.

a handpainted ornament from mary, which i HAVE to say must have been done by chinese, because of the style (you find many similar painted-inside-glass things at chinatown) and the eyes of the angels are just... china.
then some random other ornaments which are 50-70% off or from mary's collection. she has so much stuff so she gave a little to me hehe :D i hope to never collect ornaments that i will not use on my tree though, it really takes up space for storage. i really love the birds here hehe

of course these arent all the ornaments on my tree. i have over 50 ornaments placed on it XD. not bad at all considering this is my first xmas tree XD. there's even a little black and silver glass angel and black balls around for alex, and a couple of purple balls amongst other things. The colors in the picture is quite dimmed so it looks less decorated, plus i got lazy with the silver glitter at the top of the tree XD. aunty siu mui said i didnt have enough ornaments and lights, but i think more lights would be overkill? the back 1/3 of the tree is undecorated though HEHE

have some special ornaments from Old World coming in soon, bought by Mary on eBay with my help. they're special because traditional methods of making glass ornaments is used to create them, and they have a wide variety of ornaments down to vegetables XD.

shall blog again really soon!