oooh trillian they sound lovely! yes! some cross-stitched tree decos would be great to do... I've got too many unfinished projects to do it this year though.
We a different coloured theme each year we get inspired inthe myers stores lol( i love going in when they have all the xmas trees up im still a kid at heart lol
and we have lighthearted comps between friends at who has the best xmas tree
My mums verry fanatical about having it pretty perfect lol
i cant wait to go on a myers xmas decoration spree
We dont really do much outside maby some lights on the verander
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.
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.
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
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.
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!!
I don't have anything like a lot of you ladies, we have a tree decorated in red & silver, i use the left over baubles in little vases to 'decorate' and i have a few little santa deco's.
This year i bought the girls some cheapo leadlight things to hang for their windows and a WELCOME sign with a santa (quite cute).
We have some fairy lights for the tree and some star lights for inside (wherever they will fit now we've moved).
DD1 has a bauble with her name on it and i will TRY and get the same for DD2.
DD1 also has some gorgeous my 1st baubles etc from her 1st x-mas and a really cute x-mas carousel music snow ball.
HERE is my attempt at the tree last year HERE is my left-over deco's.
At the moment am just using the plastic baubles etc as i don't want the girls breaking anything
Will update once the tree and any new deco's are done this year
Well THIS is going to be a different Christmas here in our house... or very possibly another one interstate if by some miracle we move before the 25th!
DH has had a verbal confirmation that he has been accepted for a new role... but still no paper work so essentially we don't really know where we'll be spending this Christmas. My guess is that we'll still be here... BUT.... I packed away all the Chrissy decorations last Easter (when DH was almost accepted into another role interstate... that fell through).
I refuse to unpack anything... not even the decos. So I've pre-warned DH and the kids that we'll buy a small but real tree and MAKE all the decorations this year. My teenage DD should love the challenge (she hasn't been told yet... she gets back from boarding school this Wednesday).
Fortunately we just so happen to have stacks of coloured A4 paper. The first plan is to make lots of loop chains. All the kids should be able to help with that. DD (15) can cut the strips, and my 7yo can form the loops. My 4yo will probably get bored but might get him decorating some cut out circles by sticking on some glitter to make "balls".
I think in the olden days they also used to thread popped corn?
Ahhhh! Yes! I have stacks of cotton balls that need using up! Thanks for the reminder ZF!
Smiles (Lorelle) also sent me down a pressie last year that had a clear plastic cone inside that i haven't thrown away yet... it will be perfect for the basis of a big star or angle for the top!
Thanks Kaz Yes! We have a pine tree out the back with small cones... i'll send DD out to gather a heap up when she gets home. We've also got lots of clear thread. So far i don't need to buy a thing!!!
We're going to cut out clear contact in the shape of trees, bells & candy canes then the kids will stick on coloured cellophane & glitter. Lastly you stick on another piece of contact to seal it all in & you have a stained glass window
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