In Junk We Trust: The Christmas Season has come and passed

The Christmas Season is something you can't reproduce. The feeling is just in the air and everyone knows it. However, this year, it just simply wasn't there. I was not the only person to feel this way. However, this is quite a let down for me because I tried very hard to make it feel the way it is supposed to. The picture below is of one of the hallways at my school. The lights were hanging from the ceiling. In the main hall, there was red and green paper over the lights and had color lights hanging from the ceiling as well. It was amazing if you ask me!

Since my dad was going to Texas for this year's Christmas, my dad's side of the family had to do Christmas at an earlier date. We chose to do Christmas on the 18th of December. I brought the family chicken noodles to the event; of which the noodles were handmade by me and my boyfriend, Wyatt. Since there was a lot of leftover dough for the noodles that wouldn't cut into noodles, rather than eating it raw I decided to make fun shapes like Christmas trees. I only made a few of them but they brought some festiveness to the noodles.

Since my dad was going to be in Texas for Christmas, I was at my mom's house for the entire time. I have never been at my mom's house for the entire Christmas. It was a bit strange but far less stressful that it usually is. Below is a picture of the Christmas tree we decorated at my mom's house. Ron, my step dad, won't allow us to have fake trees so this is a real tree which made the house smell wonderful.

Even though the main tree at my mom's isn't a fake tree, Wyatt and I have four fake Christmas trees. The 6' green tree was my first tree and next came the 4' green tree. After I got those, I got the miniature tinsel tree which is like 2'. The best tree, however, is the 6' vintage aluminum tree that Wyatt and I got together. They all look magnificent together with the vintage ornaments on them.

Along with vintage trees and ornaments, we have a large collection of vintage Santas. I have gotten a pretty good deals on the Santas but they are worth quite a bit more.

In the decorations we used for Christmas, we also used things that were already in the room. For instance, we used the green glasses and some of the pictures already located on the mantel in our design. However, we added some Santas, and interesting Christmas plush items along with it. We also have an advent calendar located on the fireplace.

Here are some if the presents that I got from my mom's side of the family. I got some more vintage little knee-hugging elves, ribbon, the movie Amelie, the movie Suckerpunch, noodle cutters, and a soldering torch.

Here is a different view of the presents however this one shows the antique photo album that I got from my grandma that has pictures of relatives in it.

Here is a picture of the presents I received from my best friend, Emily, and my boyfriend, Wyatt. I got the Betseyville purse with the Ariel bubble bath from Emily and the Volbeat CD, skull duct tape, and Misfits lanyard from Wyatt. I really enjoyed all of these presents.

These pictures are of the presents that I got from my dad's side of the family. I got the 'KASS' cards made from the architectural finds. I also got some drill bits, an elf tree topper, scary family picture in a gorgeous frame, a soldering torch, a $25 visa gift card, and some vintage lace cardigan type things.