Twinkle! Sparkle!

What do you do in a predominantly Muslim suburb in the days leading up to Diwali, the biggest Hindu festival of the year? You buy Christmas decorations, of course! At Monday's quilt meeting I was given the address for the Christmas Decoration man, and told not to wait too long before paying him a visit. Helen said you'd go to a suburban home, walk down into its basement and be blown away. She wasn't wrong! A basement not much smaller than our Hauz Khas home full of sparkly, dangly stuff! Three rooms of colour coded baubles, wreaths, tree skirts and tree toppers - everything you'd need for Christmas, with all the baubles priced at 50 rupees. Well, almost everything. There wasn't any wrapping paper...

A small selection of our purchases

We bought 17 baubles, two of the stand up stars and a tinsel tree for each of the kids' rooms. This one's Thalia's. As the Christmas tree we bought last year is only marginally bigger than this turquoise one, we're going to need to get a larger tree if we're going to have any hope of hanging all these trinkets on it!