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OrionTheWolf -> Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 5:11:37 AM)
I and my girl have been working this past week on Christmas decorations. I prefer simple and elegant in just about everything, including Christmas decorations. The tree is a 6.5 ft artificial with 300 multi colored lights built in. Clear glass ornaments, clear plastic rope, accented with a few blue and silver bulb ornaments. The clear glass and such allows for the lights to sparkle their color through. Outside icicle lights along the front edge of the roof, and the deck railing. Blue lights framing the windows and doors, candy cane lights in front of one flower box, penguin and snowmen lit stakes around the oak in front, 4' blinking light tree, two deer that are framed in lights, both of which move in a different way, and a lit wreath on the gate to the deck. Almost forgot, a 3.5 ft tall snowboarding penguin attacked to the corner rail of the deck. Will post some pics on my profile when finished (have a few adjustments and bulbs that I want to replace). So how are others decorating?

ShaharThorne -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 5:24:05 AM)
Me and mom are not decordating(?) this year but my brother is (gave him all of our lights while fall cleaning). We are going to celebrate the holidays at his place since it is bigger than our trailer (yeppers common trailer trash here, lost the tube shirt though).

sirsholly -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 5:40:12 AM)
we really limit what we do outside anymore. There is nothing to stop the wind around us and any decorations we put up are always blown down again and again. I have decorative flags (4) and a few sets of lights for the door, but thats all. Inside is always a work in progress. The tree is put up by me, and taken down by the LoudOne daily. Decorations are put out, moved, broken, hidden, thrown at the cats, the reason for multiple time-outs....and you get the general idea.

kittinSol -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 5:42:18 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: OrionTheWolf I prefer simple and elegant in just about everything, including Christmas decorations. The tree is a 6.5 ft artificial with 300 multi colored lights built in. Huh... nevermind :-) .

Aileen1968 -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 5:46:41 AM)
this is my first Christmas as a divorced woman. So it was the first tree that only my daughters and I picked out. The first tree that I cut the bottom off of and got straight in the stand with the guidance of an eight and six year old being the ones to tell me if it was straight or not([&:]). I've kept it simple inside and out since I'm starting from scratch with the decorations. I'm putting white lights up the walkway railing to my townhouse and will do luminaries on Christmas Eve.

Louve00 -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 5:53:58 AM)
I pretty much take the simple route, too. I have alot of keepsake decorations (not ornaments, but decorations my mother, mother-in-law, and sister used to hang around their houses...it brings back good memories for both me and my husband. Outside lights we aren't doing this year and haven't done much outside decorating since my husband got sick. Our tree is artificial too (with clear lights attached to it). I place the tree on a desk and drape the desk with christmas tissue paper. (It gives it the "appearance" its bigger than what it actually is) I hang green and red shiney ornaments on mine, with one gold "feature" ornament that is placed about in the middle of the tree, and hang candy canes all over it. I do the inside decorating the day after Thanksgiving. So my house is done and its Christmasy around here, already. Now...just to start the Christmas shopping, which usually comes at the last minute lol.

AnnaOfAramis -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 6:01:38 AM)
Greetings Master Orion, laughs her Master's catch phrase is "simple but elegant" also. As far as the tree.... this girl actually got it decorated over Thanksgiving Weekend, which is probably the earliest this has been accomplished. Usually, we take the kids and cut down a tree at the local tree farm because doing so gives all kinds of critters homes and because well, the smell of pine and going out to the tree farm and having hot cider there and things is just fun:) But this year, the schedule does not give us a weekend when we can do this, so we have a small artificial tree. Because of this, only the smaller ornaments could be used. Master only has a box of ornaments of his grandmother's that are mostly the old shiny ball type and most are too big for the tree, so those stayed packed apart from a couple small ones. We put up his grandmother's creche- complete with his grandmother's tradition of not putting Jesus in until the 24th- which always makes us laugh because everyone stands around looming looking at nothing in the meantime. This girl's family has always had the tradition of picking up a small thing for the tree to commemorate vacations and other outings. The box of ornaments she has inherited consists of ornaments from her grandmother's tree and the things that her mother no longer has room for on her tree. These things have been collected from around the world and all have little stories attached to them. Her mother (and now she also) has always been picky about what sort of ornament to buy. We prefer a Victorian type tree, and like to go for very individual one of a kind type of ornaments. Putting them on the tree always recalls the time and events when it was purchased as well as all the past times decorating the tree together and seeing that ornament on it. So to this girl, the tree is filled with family heirlooms each representing family vacations, and the memories of creating each year's unique tree with family in Christmases past. Happy Holidays to your girl and you Master Orion, anna

DarkSteven -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 7:36:01 AM)
A menorah. Takes one minute to get out of storage and thirty seconds to set up. /Superior smirk/

kittinSol -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 7:39:26 AM)
Except I can't find candles that will fit mine [&o] . They're either too large, or too small.

LaTigresse -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 7:43:31 AM)
Last year we celebrated Xmas at my son's house and this year it will be at my daughter's house. My house is not really visible from the road so there is no reason to decorate outdoors and since we are not having any gatherings at the farm, no reason to bother decorating indoors either. Just call me Scrooge.

Louve00 -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 7:53:51 AM)
Hehe to you, Scrooge [;)] We decided not to decorate the year my mother died. (She died close to Christmas and I just didn't feel like acknowledging the holidays festivly yet. But it felt so lonely and untradional undecorated. I decided I'll be decorating, even if its a little something or other every year from that experience on.

GreedyTop -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 8:04:22 AM)
I'm not going to be home this year, so no decorating (I'll be gone a week, and dont want the cats to have the temptation..lol) But when I do decorate, I have a small fake tree. It's got pre-wired white lights. I add a string of color lights, and the ornaments are whimsical (for instance, clear plastic snowmen that have color changing LEDs in them, the characters from the animated Rudolph show). I have a stuffed Woodstock wearing a Santa hat and holding a string of lights that plays the Charlie Brown theme. Thats it.

LafayetteLady -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 8:05:12 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Louve00 Hehe to you, Scrooge [;)] We decided not to decorate the year my mother died. (She died close to Christmas and I just didn't feel like acknowledging the holidays festivly yet. But it felt so lonely and untradional undecorated. I decided I'll be decorating, even if its a little something or other every year from that experience on. I have not really had the energy or ambition to decorate or celebrate the holiday since my mother's passing. My son tends to spend the holiday with his father, so there doesn't seem to be a point to lugging everything out and then putting it all away.

Louve00 -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 8:18:13 AM)
That's the exact way I felt too, LafayetteLady. I figured, Christmas decorating meant more to my mother than to me so why go thru it all. But thru the years of her extravagance, I guess it wore off on me. That year that I didn't decorate seems so desolate to me, I vowed to never not decorate again. Now.....if I were going away from the holidays, like GT, and be gone for a week, then I'm sure I wouldn't bother. By then everyone'll be going on about the New Year and it wouldn't bother me like it did that year. Spending Christmas at home, with everything on tv going on about Christmas...and remembering my Christmas memories...just isn't conducive to an undecorated house (at least for me, but I do understand your mindset)

Elizabeth666 -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 8:19:41 AM)
Until this year, I hadn't decorated for a couple of years. Well, the year before last I put some up but the apartment I was living in was too tiny for a tree. I bought my daughter a little one she could put in her room. Now that we have moved into a bigger place, the tree and decorations are up. My tree is a fake 6 footer that has the white lights wired into it. All my decorations are sliver, white and blue. Pretty silver and blue christmas balls, small bells and icicle decorations on the tree. Along with sliver and blue material garland. My around the house decorations are white, silver and blue as well, the theme is snowmen. It's all very nice and tastful :)

pixidustpet -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 8:20:32 AM)
the tree is in its box, mocking me. you'd THINK that with TheEngineer home this week thanks to the plague his sister gave us at thanksgiving, i would have put it up. oh but no. we bought ornaments this year because i split the ones i had 4 ways when i moved...for the kids and for wolf and me. so i didnt have many, and some of the priceless ones disappeared that i thought i'd brought with me. sighs and mama said she would let me have any i wanted from my grandmother's stuff...so we'll be doing that this weekend. i might go ahead and get the tree up since we're not wanting to drive about with the snow we're expecting later today. ....its not going to last. a few hours at best. but its houston, and most people get frantic if it rains hard. kitten

DesFIP -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 8:30:49 AM)
I've got several menorah, candles in different sizes and I still have to stuff one with aluminum foil to keep the candles in correctly. But the silver one my great uncle gave me never gets used since it's meant to be filled with oil and a wick and that makes me nervous.

windchymes -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 8:34:32 AM)
I got really crazy this year. I put a bowl of potpourri on the coffee table and a ceramic candle holder on the mantle. Ho ho ho! [:)]

CallaFirestormBW -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 9:21:27 AM)
Last year, we got a real tree, with the promise (from our grown girls) that they would clean up the needles and take down the decorations and clean up the mess in a timely manner. Can we say that that SOOO did not happen??? So this year, no live tree --- and no fake tree, either, since SR and I are in the process of sorting through the household so that I can take what I need to our new home in NC (she's likely to be at least 1 year behind me, and possibly up to 5 years behind me in making the move), and we are not buying anything else that would have to be packed and stored until I can get it moved... so we're doing small decorating. Lights (I adore holiday lights), candles, poinsettias, holly and berries, bells, and ribbons, and using the tree decorations to decorate swag hanging from the mantle and over the balcony doorframe (since -that- is not going to be opened again until spring!!!). Calla

DarkSteven -> RE: Christmas Decorations (12/4/2009 9:40:01 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: DesFIP I've got several menorah, candles in different sizes and I still have to stuff one with aluminum foil to keep the candles in correctly. But the silver one my great uncle gave me never gets used since it's meant to be filled with oil and a wick and that makes me nervous. Celeste, why not put it out anyway, unlit, while another menorah holds the candles?

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