Christmas Decorations

[{sarah}]

What do you have?

What do you want?

How do you decorate?

Do you do outside or just inside?

Share all of your decorating tips & links to photos in here

[briggsy's girl]

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!

[{sarah}]

I'm pretty slack with our outside stuff.

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

[~clover~]

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...)

[briggsy's girl]

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!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

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!

[{sarah}]

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

[Bathsheba]

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.

[briggsy's girl]

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!

[{sarah}]

Sarah - i managed to end up with two of those Disney trees...

[briggsy's girl]

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...

[{sarah}]

*cries* Turned out we have a wedding on the weekend we were supposed to come down Looks like it won't be until next year before we make it

[briggsy's girl]

bugger! that's no good. i wondered why there was no commenting on your trip being soon, but i'm a tad bit vague so thought i may have missed something

i can arrange to get it posted up if you're really wanting it though (or i can use it this year and see how you feel when you're down next year...)

[*LittleMissSummer*]

I live with the Grinch so we don't have any decorations im surprised he even agreed on a tree but it will just be one those little ones that you plug in and it lights up (having a total mind blank cant think of the name) but we have agreed that when we have kids that we will go all out but until then hes not willing to do anything.

[Erin_25]

I go with a colour theme each year, I like to keep it simple & elegant. Not too much or over the top. It's usually just the lounge & kitchen areas that get decorated & we put lights outside.

This year we actually got a decent size tree that I can't wait to put up, with all matching deco's & we have the train to go around the base.

I love my silver letters that spell JOY & I always put a massive vase on the centre of the table full of coloured balls. This year its green, red & silver. I've found an awesome site with some very nice decorations on it.

I would love more stuff for outside.

[briggsy's girl]

our table centrepiece/s (depending on how we set up the table) is/are candle holders - two candles in each, and the heat from the flame makes the top turn - which sends angels flying through Christmas trees. set it up to trial last yesterday - was gorgeous!

[Bathsheba]

That's very sweet of you BG offering one of your trees to Sarah I know she has wanted one ever since have known her LOL

We're phasing out the glass decos. I just wish i could find more embellished fabrics ones... (if anyone sees any around please give the heads up!)... my beaded ones are very kid friendly.

Some large painted wooden ones would also be nice...

HERE is a photo of one of my beaded tree decos on our velvet tree skirt.

[Trillian]

Bath, my MIL makes tree decorations using a foam ball and then she pins folded tartan ribbon all over it, working in quadrants - she draws lines down the ball and follows them down then glues a small bit of holly or pinecone to the top. They look really effective.

We don't do decorations around here because DH loathes Christmas and I've given up tring to convert him. So we only have a tree that goes up on the last day of school (the less time the better so he doesn't have to spend the entire month whinging about it being Christmas again ) But this year I am working on cross stitching the Bucilla tiny stockings for the tree - there are 30 of them and I am getting through one a night.