No decorating until after I get stuffed..........
Christmas/Winter Decor: IT'S TIME
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We've got the stuff ready, replaced the old and broken with the new, etc, but it's too early yet. Some folks have made a start already, but tbh I think if you do it too early, you're sick of living with Christmas by Christmas and then you don't enjoy it. Next year, you chase a 'special' Christmas again, go early again (if not earlier), rinse and repeat.
So, decorations will go up when, in my family, they always have - the Saturday before the first Sunday in Advent. The tree goes up then, too, if it's a fake one. In the case of a real tree, it'll go up the week before Christmas. I'll pointedly ignore Christmas films and the like until the 21st - those final few days have always seemed best, to me - but then that'll be it. Pork pie and a dram of whisky for breakfast on Christmas Day, by which time I'll have probably munched my way through a fair bit of stollen. It'll be great. And I love the fact that my gf's work shuts down for the middle week, as used to be common practice. I've always resented the intrusion of the workaday world between Christmas and New Year (though, obviously, it's necessary - indeed, vital - in some vocations, but the grubby stuff can surely be told to go hang for what really only amounts to a couple of days per year).
I'll then honour my Scottish ancestors by getting peed out of my gourd for Hogmanay, and should be OK to start working again by the 4th. I'll definitely not manage it before.
So, decorations will go up when, in my family, they always have - the Saturday before the first Sunday in Advent. The tree goes up then, too, if it's a fake one. In the case of a real tree, it'll go up the week before Christmas. I'll pointedly ignore Christmas films and the like until the 21st - those final few days have always seemed best, to me - but then that'll be it. Pork pie and a dram of whisky for breakfast on Christmas Day, by which time I'll have probably munched my way through a fair bit of stollen. It'll be great. And I love the fact that my gf's work shuts down for the middle week, as used to be common practice. I've always resented the intrusion of the workaday world between Christmas and New Year (though, obviously, it's necessary - indeed, vital - in some vocations, but the grubby stuff can surely be told to go hang for what really only amounts to a couple of days per year).
I'll then honour my Scottish ancestors by getting peed out of my gourd for Hogmanay, and should be OK to start working again by the 4th. I'll definitely not manage it before.
I second the motion. I can make some spontaneous Christmas purchases before Halloween or Thanksgiving, but I cannot bring about Christmas decorations until after Turkey Day.
Oh, and p.s. - I don't stand in line the morning after Thanksgiving at 3:00 AM with the other fools outside *any* store, either.
I couldn't imagine myself rolling out of bed at that hour after consuming that much stuffing........
I'll do it for nice sheets. I have a thing for nice sheets.
I guess this is your way of telling me not to ask about the thread count you prefer?
I'm not putting any Christmas decorations up until well into December. Putting them up now is way to early, our local shop was putting their Christmas tree up yesterday afternoon, I'll be sick of the sight of it by December.
NOOOOOOO!!! It can't be time already! I love Christmas but this usually happens every year.....
Bah Humbug! This year I'm limiting all our Christmas Decorations to just this one piece...
Somehow I doubt my wife and kids will agree.
Somehow I doubt my wife and kids will agree.
I have that tree for my coffee table..Always the Charlie Brown Christmas tree.Bah Humbug! This year I'm limiting all our Christmas Decorations to just this one piece...
Somehow I doubt my wife and kids will agree.
Hmm. I didn't love the first iteration of the wreath, so I pulled it apart a bit and edited it.
...you are quite the talent young lady, I attempt something like that-and it would appear at conclusion, like a fancy firestarter....or a beautiful cat box liner....
Neesy
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Thanks. I'm still not sure I love it. It may need more editing. But in the meantime I plan to move on to something else.
Thanks! I did. I made it the same way I made the Halloween wreath, essentially. And while it wasn't exactly free, it was really inexpensive. The form is cardboard, plastic grocery bags, and tape. The visible part is 6x6 squares of tissue, molded over a bottle (a one-serving soda bottle would work) that I used as a sort of form/punch and attached to the form with double-sided sticky tape. The snowflake I got from Dollar Tree and modified to make it work better with the color scheme.You made this? What did you use? It looks pretty good
If I had it to do over again, I think I'd stick with just white or a mix of blues. Maybe my crazy neighbor will rip it off the door and I'll have to make a new one.
