I might be wrong but nutmeg can be bought at any street market along with the usual spices.
The size of a man's thumb, smells of wood smoke as a result of a light roasting or drying.

In restaurants they use the whole nut in a beef soup.

In canada's grocery stores the nutmeg nuts are quite smaller. not the same vartiety but i'm sure it's nutmeg ...

Kunming is the spring city,the same spring weather as Ottawa, Moscow, Iceland, Alaska. Yup just like it

2006 gasoline / diesel was 4 rmb+- a liter
2013 gasoline / diesel is now 8 rmb a liter

Cost of everything is based on fuel.. therefore cost of living doubled.

Workers, skilled or not never adjusted for wages therefore their living expenses declined.The ones who haven't notice, or just ignore and slum it live in slave conditions.

The middle class cope.

The rich are so rich it doesn't matter.

That's China

On the serious note I wonder if you could rent a potted pine tree to decorate.....would be cool eh?? mmmm the scent of pine for christmas.

AlexKMG: I'm sure there are plenty of plants out there ready to decorate, if too tall just cut off the top to place the angel or star....hmmmmm what to do with the top???

The camera is only a box to attach the main component, the lens. The lens is everything.
The above is based on DSLR..

As for your needs DSLR is going overboard. Tiger Tiger basiclly sumed up the most important points.

Once you have the camera buying expensive toys and accessories isn't the solution, creativity is the solution.