The Dead Go Shopping, also the Tree begins.

[smokingboot]

Right now the dead are busy in my dreams. Last few days it was Aunty, this time it's Dad. I can't help being superstitious about such dreams, they make me worry for Mum, but then that's what they are, anxiety wrapped up in fancy. I've spent the last two months worrying about her. Dad had done a lot of grocery shopping, bags of which were all over the floor waiting to be put away into cupboards etc. I was bewildered by all this activity, I don't remember my father ever shopping in his entire life. He gave me some teeny gold beads to eat, like breadcrumbs rolled in gold. I tried them and they were sweet, but nothing special. There was some black and white footage of me but much prettier and young, it was very 1940s/50s. When I turned my back, you could see something like a big mole/scab/wound to the left on my lower back. It was the kind of distracting thing one would edit out of a photo today.

Meanwhile, the tree is nearly finished. One of the old masks needs fixing but some are in place. R loves them and they'll entertain our guests. I like them too, even though the Prince at the top makes the whole thing look somewhat sinister. Mum thinks we should bung a star there, and she has a point. He does have this habit of significant looming.

Comments

[bleodswean]

The tree looks like it's freakin' amazing! What inspired this?

Some dreams of the dead are so comforting, and others...feel portentous. HUGS

[smokingboot]

Yes, the dreams have all been a bit weighty for sure. But on some level they have cheer too.
The masks are from various trips to Venice, I started adding them to the tree because of stories and memories evoked by them. I did this one year when our decorations simply bored me to bits. R thinks this is a very Us thing, so now wants it every Xmas. I'm pleased you like them!

[mallorys_camera]

Ohhhh! Masks on the tree! I like it.

[smokingboot]

Russ loves them!