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South Australian mum’s Christmas tree breaks the internet

A rainbow-coloured triumph! - by Rebecca Lowrey Boyd
  • 26 Nov 2018
South Australian mum’s Christmas tree breaks the internet
Carol Fossey

A South Australian mum transformed her tree for Christmas to celebrate the ‘yes’ vote.

The Christmas tree - boldly decorated as a rainbow - has attracted over 6.1K ‘likes’ on the Kmart Mums Australia Facebook group.

South Australian mum’s Christmas tree breaks the internet
Carol Fossey

Tammy Sims tries a new theme for her Christmas tree every year.

“It seemed appropriate in celebration of the yes vote,” she explained.

Tammy admits that she’s a “bit OCD” with her tree, and that it takes a while to decorate.

“I try my best not to put two of the same decorations next to each other and I tend to arrange them all quite close,” Tammy said.

South Australian mum’s Christmas tree breaks the internet
Carol Fossey

She likes to shop around for her decorations, purchasing most of them from Kmart, Target, Myer, David Jones, Coles and Woolworths.

Her 10-year-old daughter helped her decorate the tree, and is “very proud of it”. Her 15-year-old daughter, however, isn’t quite as impressed.

“The eldest just finds it funny that we put so much thought and effort into it,” said Tammy.

This article originally appeared on Better Homes and Gardens.

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Rebecca Lowrey Boyd is a former magazine editor and the founder of Wee Birdy, one of The Sunday Times’ Top 50 Blogs in the World. A design nerd and bird enthusiast, she can usually be found poring over Pinterest, knee-deep in Bunnings or sticky-beaking at modernist homes in Sydney’s bushburbia.

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