This year, it seemed the universe was telling me I needed to make our Christmas an extra special geeky one. I kept stumbling across wonderful pins on Pinterest such as this post on how to geek up your Christmas, this rather impressive Darth Vader tree (which was shared to my facebook wall no less than 4 times!) and lastly this rather inspirational Dr Who tree tutorial.
It all took me back to my flatting years in the mid 90s, and the very untraditional awesomeness that was our Spice Girl Christmas tree. Scary, Sporty, Baby, Ginger and Posh made for some fabulous decorations and the tree was very much a sight to behold. I just wish I had some photographic evidence to prove it. Sadly those were not digital days, and I don't, so I'm going to have to leave it to your imaginations ;) (and hey, if I've made you a little nostalgic, you can request their Greatest hits here).
Feeling my own nostalgia, I decided we really needed a geektastic tree, and inspired by those fantastic pins above I settled on a Dr Who theme. My 3 and 5 year old sons fully embraced the idea. Whilst they have never actually seen the show, they are in love with all the STUFF. They think the Tardis, Daleks, Cybermen and Weeping angels (which they have renamed scary fairies) are just the best. I'm hoping they will forgive me when they look back in future years and realise just what they were playing with, ahem! Their Dad just said 'really?' and shook his head (but he is rather impressed with it now it is complete, I know he is).
And so the decoration making commenced. It became a bit of an addiction, and this blog post was going to be shared much earlier in the month, but I kept needing to make just one more thing (needs another felt Dalek, just how hard can cross-stitching a Tardis be?) and so it all took a bit longer than expected. Lesson learned - start your geek tree decoration making as early as possible - I'm thinking I'll start on next year's tree in January ;) There were admittedly some fails along the way. I was going to make my very own Weeping angel topper, but it proved too hard for my crafting skills, so an actual Christmas angel was sacrificed for the cause, I think it was worth it :)
Where to from here? Must be time to borrow some Dr Who DVDs from the library (here are series Six and Seven in case you want to join me) and marathon some Christmas specials , as I wait for this years to come on TV *rubs hands*
And maybe while I'm waiting, I'll start researching next year's tree - the boys have put in a suggestion for a Minecraft theme, we'll see ;)
