Who’s decorating for the holidays?
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Full on decorating mood here. I find it a great way to brighten up the shorter and shorter days. We should have more big festivals.
Both trees are up and now decorated (living room and dining room). I decided not to put up the silver tree in the kitchen this year. After 5 or 6 years in the kitchen for the season it has picked up a greased dusty look. So I put a 3' holiday topiary on the kitchen work table. The village is displayed in the book shelf again as I really enojoyed it last year. The santa collection sit atop one of the antique sewing machines. A swag over my desk. And a few bits and bobs here and there. Pics to come.
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Bob has a Kiva fireplace with a very high mantle. I suppose I should dust the things up there when I feel better. There is a typical nutcracker, a black santa with a red and white santa hat and a red and green plaid suit. There is some plastic evergreen stuff and Xmas cards from last year. Two christmas tree ornaments are near the black santa.
Bob quit putting his tree up because a cat tree has been in that space since Don died and the cat has been migrating with us.
That is symbolic of our attitude toward Xmas. We will probably go the La Hacienda for Xmas dinner again, but it has become too crowded. Maybe Chinese.
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I put up our tree shortly after Remembrance Day here - we have a half day off for lieu time for parent teacher conferences on the third Friday of November, so I generally spend that afternoon getting the tree up and decorated. We don’t do much more than that, but I really enjoy the extra light at this time of year!
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Here are some photos of our decorations this year. When my mother moved this summer, she gave me a bunch of ornaments, so I added close to 100 more ornaments across two trees this year
The main tree:
Lights on so you can see the ornaments:
The piano room:
My view from the bench:
And yes, for the record, the set up, and the photos, are almost exactly the same as last year.
It it ain’t broke…
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No ornaments, but seeing the lighted tree in the screen room as I work in the kitchen is nice.
Tree with a fraction of ornaments that I have. In the living room.
Favorite ornaments:
Mom's favorite candle. Snowman in the background was a gift from my best friend's mom.
Christmas mice:
The caroler and pine cone candles pre-date me.
Mr wtg's grandma used to do ceramics:
Lots of sweet memories of Christmases past....
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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Here are some photos of our decorations this year. When my mother moved this summer, she gave me a bunch of ornaments, so I added close to 100 more ornaments across two trees this year
The main tree:
Lights on so you can see the ornaments:
The piano room:
My view from the bench:
And yes, for the record, the set up, and the photos, are almost exactly the same as last year.
It it ain’t broke…
@ShiroKuro Everything looks beautiful!!
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@ShiroKuro Everything looks beautiful!!
@wtg said in Who’s decorating for the holidays?:
Everything looks beautiful!!
Thank you!!
@wtg said in Who’s decorating for the holidays?:
Mr wtg's grandma used to do ceramics:
We have some of those as well (I have two and my mother has one). I think two were made by relatives (and one I think I bought a few years back). There are various iterations of these of course, but Mr WTG's Grandmother's is the perfect kind, to my eye.
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Here are some photos of our decorations this year. When my mother moved this summer, she gave me a bunch of ornaments, so I added close to 100 more ornaments across two trees this year
The main tree:
Lights on so you can see the ornaments:
The piano room:
My view from the bench:
And yes, for the record, the set up, and the photos, are almost exactly the same as last year.
It it ain’t broke…
@ShiroKuro Your trees are so pretty, SK.
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No ornaments, but seeing the lighted tree in the screen room as I work in the kitchen is nice.
Tree with a fraction of ornaments that I have. In the living room.
Favorite ornaments:
Mom's favorite candle. Snowman in the background was a gift from my best friend's mom.
Christmas mice:
The caroler and pine cone candles pre-date me.
Mr wtg's grandma used to do ceramics:
Lots of sweet memories of Christmases past....
