A MUM whose favourite film is The Grinch Who Stole Christmas has designed her house around the flick for Christmas.
Makeup artist and influencer Leteesha McSwain, 32, bought a 10 foot tree for around £350 and admits the decorating process is an arduous task.
Her son, almost two, is now also obsessed with The Grinch just like his mum. The pair watch the film multiple times every day and he’s in love with the festive theme.
Leteesha, from Victoria, Australia, said: “The theme was inspired by my love of my favourite Christmas movie of all time, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
“A movie I consistently made my five siblings watch over and over at Christmas time from the young age of 10, and continued through to adulthood where being in my own house with my husband, I started the tradition to watch it every night from November 1 to Christmas.
“But this year, my almost two year old son is just as obsessed as me, so I’ve gone from watching it once a day to two to three times a day with him already, and he is absolutely obsessed with our tree display.”
The tree took five hours to set up and then another three hours to decorate.
It has over 100 individual decorations, 13 feet of balloons and a set of lights.
It also has a little hideout underneath to help the showpiece standout even more.
Leteesha, who also has another six foot Christmas tree in a different room, loves seeing people’s reactions to her design.
She said: “The reaction I got the first year we did it was incredible, so after that it became such a big thing.
“I would get messages a few months out from Christmas saying ‘I cant wait to see your Christmas tree this year’ or ‘Your Christmas tree is my favourite thing to see every year, I’m so excited’ and it gave me so much excitement to keep it going.
“I’ve changed it every year in different ways to keep it new and fresh, it has been a bit difficult this year with my two year old but he’s been great, he just loves looking at it and going inside the cubby house because he feels like he is ‘playing’ in it.
“The tradespeople are the funniest, their reactions when they walk through the house are the best.
“It’s just so unexpected. I have random people/followers message me in my town asking if they can stop by to show their kids.
“It’s so funny.”
