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I do try to stick to a colour theme every year, but thats about it. I would love to do the big lights out the front thing, but only ever get one or 2 lots up, then some of the little trees & stars in the windows. Have a better house for it this year thoughWait...in a month or so I'll have a FB status saying poor DH fell off the roof trying to keep me & my chrissy light obsession happy (since he doesn't see the point...)
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we've decided to take the couch out of the lounge room and put the tree in that bay window - faces out onto our carport, so it won't be seen from the street, but it means DH and I can still sit in the same spots and not be crowded. the formal dining room is opposite where the tree will be - so that will kinda be Christmas central. the plan is to put the table in the bay window in there (cos we dont' use it) and put a village on the table (i think!) and then the couch will sit in front of that with all the soft teddies - if DD is mobile, she cant' get hurt there... each section of the lounge/dining/entry hall gets sort of themed each year - and i change it each time!
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What do you have - we went with Red & Silver theme last year and got a bauble with DD's name on it, then just tinsel, some star, snowflake etc etc deco's
What do you want - would love a dancing santa or something for DD to watch, she loves the lights and everything. Would like some NICER deco's instead of the normal Target ones, eventually once the kids are older will get glass deco's!
Would also like lights for DD for outside!
How do you decorate - We put the tree up on the 1st December every year, i also put lights and some x-mas statues etc on the bar, i use the left over deco's and put them in 5 glasses vases i have
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Do you do outside or just inside - at the moment just inside but as the kids get older and once we are in our own place will put lights outside as DD loves them... i can't wait.. i LOVE x-mas!
It doesn't look the greatest but i try with what we can afford, will be interesting this yr as we normally put the pressies for nieces etc under the tree but DD will stop that, might need a fire guard around the tree!
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I think we're going to need something aorund our tree as well this year. Zander was always fine with it but I think Juliette would pull at it.
Love your vases, they look great
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we're keeping the tree in an open space this year - next year we might need to use baby gates seeing i only have glass deco's (apart from a few spesh ones).
Sarah - i managed to end up with two of those Disney trees...
just realised i can't have my village on the table as half the stuff is candles so i'd need it close so i can reach... hmmmm. thinking thinking thinking
Ava's mum - you'll have to bring Ava to visit us - we go all out for Christmas - it's awesome! lots of lights and musical stuff - and there will be a couch full of soft toys she can play with... teddies that are just teddies, some that tell stories, animals that sing and dance, santas.. the whole shebang
no theme here really - just eclectic and fun all the way!
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bwahahah
you still coming down next month? maybe we can work out some sort of way for you to pay it off and you can take it home...
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*cries* Turned out we have a wedding on the weekend we were supposed to come downLooks like it won't be until next year before we make it
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Yep, I'm tossing up between putting the tree in the bay window in the lounge or next to the fireplace here.
We have an eclectic mix of things. I favour old fashioned looking items which can be hard to find. My favourite decorations are the beaded velvet items i have (a photo in my gallery, also my tree) especially the ones I bought at the London bridge gift shop... wish i had bought more!
We put our tree up on December 1st.
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OMG im so excited about christmas, i love it!!!
This is only my second christmas where we are living so i only have one years worth or christmas decorations so not much of a colection going yet. We had a real tree last year and it was a disaster, apparently you cant get good trees in QLD. so we bought a fake tree...never had one before. we bought it last week cause i wanted to make sure i got the one i wanted,....and i actually put it up in the garage already cause i didnt want to to looklike it had just come out the box in december.
I have mostly silver stuff from last year and this year i think we will buy red. each year getting a new colour so that instead of having lots of cheap tacky stuff we have lovely things.
At home in the uk when i was a child we always put the tree up on the first saturday of december, unless thats a week in to dec then its the last weekend in nov.
I normally put lights in the windows but not on the outside of the house. I used to love walking around the streets in the cold in the uk and looking in the windows at the warm homes with lights and family christmas stuff...little bit different here, but il get used to it!
We used to have an advent bowl with four candle sthat you light on every sunday leading up to christmas and a nativity scean. I made a nativity last year out of little figures my grandpa made.
so exciting!!
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Eclectic here with decorations at the moment, but I am slowly improving on that. I keep an eye out for decorations now that fit. Decided to go again having a colour theme, so there will be lots of colours, it will be more the styling that is themed.
Hoping that this year DH does not go overboard with the tree again, let him go off to pick the live one to be cut as I had a hungry bub. They don't look that big amongst the rest of the trees, but are suddenly huge when you put them in the living area.
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Astrid we did that once as kids - it was our 'thing' to go and get the tree and we found The Perfect Tree one year but when we got it home it was bending over 2ft at the top
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We have a plastic tree that isn't too bad... especially as it's already given us 15 Christmas's. But this year I'm thinking of buying a real one... so that the house fills up with the lovely smell of pine. I bought some essential pine oil last year but that didn't "cut it". We always had real trees when i was a kid. We also have high ceilings because this is an older home (I think 12 ft) so a nice big real tree would look lovely.... we also have mainly floorboards and I'm not that precious about the carpet so the pine needles won't bother me too much.
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We do the outdoor light thing big time.....I love my sparkles at christmas time. maybe about 20,000 lights go up all told once you add up all the diff things....we also have an inflatable merry go round thing with reindeers and animals riding them, all sorts of stuff that decorate the front yard...we are one of those houses all the cars cruise past in the weeks before chrissy.
Inside my theme is red,green and gold. very traditional colours, no other coloured baubles or decos allowed.....lol. the tree also has a few thousand lights on it what with flashing ones and the candle lights as well....Nothing is more christmasy than sitting under the tree with just the tree lights on, on christmas eve, watching the Carols and wrapping presents (no egg nog for me this year!)....love love love christmas!!
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