you want links to pics of all my stuff??? you're insane Sarah lol
i think i'll have to set up a FB album for Christmas!
What do you have?bit of everything
What do you want?some Thomas Kinkade stuff i've seen this year
How do you decorate?i sit down and plan from about Sept - what furniture is going to be where, what tree deco's i'll use etc
then i recruit help - and i start early! probably start clearing benches this week if i can... want the tree to be the last thing to go up and i'll put it up late november
Do you do outside or just inside?usually just inside, but we have stuff for outside and DH is home this year (which he hasn't been in the past) so it can go up - woot!
You already know what I really really drool after.... The Disney tree. If only I had some spare moolah *sigh*
Everything we have is pretty eclectic, no real theme except we have very limited snowmen because I figure it's warm here we don't need them LOL! Though I do looove my snow globes
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 though Wait...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...)
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!
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 Login | Facebook (i think about 5 photos)
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!
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!
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.
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Wait...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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