Well, maybe not quite 8o, but still rather a lot. Whenever we go on holiday, hubby and I do our best to buy a Christmas decoration from the palce we're visiting. It's a great reminder when we unpack the deccies each year of places we've been, and it makes for a very pretty (albeit very mis-matched) tree. So, here's a little run down of some of the little beauties which have made it home with us and which help to transform the tree from this:
by way of this:
to this:
Most of our decorations come from the USA because it's somewhere we've travelled a lot and also because the Americans know how to do decorations (even if most of them are actually Made in China...). Anyhoo, here are the US batch, starting with a rather fitting globe
A pickle - who could ask for a more Christmas-y decoration?!
Unless you count the hamburger?!
This is one we picked up (and had personalised) from a Christmas market in Central Park the weekend we got married
I got this one in Chicago this year because it made me think of our move to the countryside where we are constantly getting stuck behind tractors driving along the road
Pug dog - next best thing to having a real one.
From the Disney Store in Chicago, because DC loves 101 Dalmatians
Pilsbury Dough Boy, from somewhere in Vermont, if I remember rightly - hubby bought him for me as a surprise
Now, a quick hop over the border to Canada:
Then moving on down Mexico way, with a cheeky little number in the shape of a pinata
And a little further south, we have this somewhat startled-looking snowman from Guatemala (startled that he hadn't melted in the heat, perhaps?)
And here's a little 'sorpresa' (surprise) from El Salvador
Now, let's hop over the Pacific to Australia
Then a little shimmy up to South East Asia, starting with Cambodia
Moving on to Laos
And on to Vietnam, where we found this little charmer in an airport gift shop
Then lets shuffle a little further east to India
Now, let's move much closer to home with a whole batch (which seem to be mostly bell-shaped) from Europe, starting with Switzerland
Hungary
Serbia
Portugal
Czech Republic
Germany (terrible photo, sorry)
Oh, and here's a little card we picked up at a flea market in Poland - it's one of those 'moving' pictures where you get two different images when you move back and forth in front of it
And finally home - the first two are vintage baubles
Whereas this one is a tasteful little elephant poo number (yes, you read that right) from the Natural History Museum in London
And here's this year's addition, all the way from John Lewis in Bristol
And last, but not least for this tree, here's poor old Rudolph who gets shoved up as our tree topper each year, looking none too comfortable, poor chap
Oh yes, and I did say 'this tree' because we've actually got three trees this year - did I tell you we love Christmas?!
Here's the Starbucks tree. Sad. But true.
And here's our little fake tree in the hallway
And here we have, new this year, my incredibly twee but somehow growing on me, Department 56 Dickens Village
Merry Christmas to you all!
And here are the snowmen, whiling away their time on the windowsill at the front of the dining area
Long-legged snowman appears to have imbibed too many Snowballs (par for the course in our house at this time of year)
Mr Tall Snowman is on Santa patrol
And the snowmen are also joined by a modern take on the Christmas tree, a red perspex number courtesy of a Muji sale one year for the startling sum of £1. 
And here they are from outside (the view Santa would get if he came up the driveway, instead of down the chimney)
And this is the hallway window - yet another snowman on Santa watch
Inside the hallway we have this plump little robin, from the Country Living fair last year (also available at John Lewis, apparently)
And these gorgeous red paper stars (John Lewis, again!); wish I'd bought more now, although I suppose you can have too much of a good thing, and there's always next year...
And here are the laser-cut wooden snowflakes we picked up from the Christmas market in Krakow for less than £1 each
Here's a shot of (nearly all of) the hallway
And here's the front door, looking suitably festive. And I'm pleased that the snowflakes can be seen through the frosted glass.
I've just realised there are some more deccies in the snug as well, but I really think that might have to be it for DecorationWatch this year. It's time I was off wrapping pressies and eating chocolates...
