YAY DECORATING! (Holiday thread)

[KiaKat]

YAY I'M DECORATING THE STORE AND I HAVE MUSIC AND THIS WEEKEND I'LL DECORATE THE HOUSE AND YAY IT'S CHRISTMAS AND *bouncebouncebouncebouncebounce*

*flings tinsel about*

*hangs glittery glass ornaments off the Moderators*

*pastes velvet ribbons to Rapscallion*

*drapes garlands over the forums*

*sets up a Menorah for Chanukah (begins sundown Dec. 11th)*

*finds the fryer for latkes and doughnuts*

*sets out pine boughs and cinnamon-scented pinecones*

There, I think the forum looks good! Anyone want to add some personal touches?

[draggar]

Since our dogs can get quite clumbsy, we don't decorate much but we do have lights around our front window. We left them up all year because they can be quite relaxing (LED lights that can sparkle and twinkle).

[AnaKhouri]

We actually plan to decorate this year because of the kid (we never did before). We have small tree my mother-in-law gave us, all my ornaments from my mom's house and my Santas of the World collection: porcelain Santas in different clothes, like Australian Santa has Bermuda shorts, English Santa has the old-school robe, German Santa is in lederhosen etc.

The Santas of the World were one of those things that someone gave me as a gift and I was like, "Why did they think I would like these?" But after a while...I came to love them.

[Amina516]

*pastes velvet ribbons to Rapscallion*


I dont want to be around when its time to rip those off...... Lol.

[Sheldonrs]

I decorated my desk at work before Thanksgiving:

[Amina516]

Ah yes .. the traditional christmas cactus, a necessity everywhere. :p

Its cute.

[Sheldonrs]

Ah yes .. the traditional christmas cactus, a necessity everywhere. :p

Its cute.

It just ain't Christmas in AZ without my Cactus! :D

[dalesys]

:bounce::bounce::bounce:*flings tinsel about*
My mother wears a tinsel circlet for a crown for most of the holiday season.

[NightWatch]

My mother wears a tinsel circlet for a crown for most of the holiday season.

Your mom is kind of a fruit loop. It's better then my mom's hideous holiday sweaters. They're the sort that are creepy even for christmas sweaters. We're talking the kinda stuff that even a homeless naked man in Alaska would throw back. There is just something hideously wrong about a 50 something woman wearing a sweater with teddy bears frollicking...

[Fire_on_High]

Since our dogs can get quite clumbsy, we don't decorate much

I'm with you...with 4 indoors kitties and one stray who's decided he wants to be ours coming in to visit while we try to convince him he'd like to stay put, anything including a tree would be destroyed in a day. Not a day goes by we don't have one of them fall off the bed, not quite make a counter jump, or some other equally humiliating opportunity for a meow-thud.

[BookstoreEscapee]

My cats were six months old for their first Christmas, and surprisingly enough, they did not try to climb the tree. They do like to lounge on the tree skirt underneath, though. Which is cute but my grandmother made the tree skirt (counted cross stitch; she made one for me, one for my brother and one for my parents) so I'm always a little afraid they'll ruin it. The pic I have of them at work is them under the tree their first Christmas.

Haven't decorated yet. Most of my stuff is in my parents' attic, so I can't do anything until my dad takes it down (cuz I ain't climbing up there). I do have a few things in my apartment...a doormat that is hanging in the closet (a gift from my mom last year), some little knicknacks, and a really pretty ornament that my grandmother brought me from Germany years ago; it's an angel, and though I'm not at all religious, it lives on my bookshelf year-round.

[AnqeiicDemise]

Kitty drives me nuts sometimes. She loves playing with the tree and the ornaments in the middle of the night, so all I hear is the poor tree shaking and the ornaments falling.

Good thing they're all plastic except for like six ornaments but I made sure to stick them up high and really deep into the wire brancehs so they won't fall off easily.

We need to get more christmassy stuff, that's for sure :(

[BookstoreEscapee]

Roomie just broke out the lights, wreaths and garland for the balcony.

She is testing the lights, and just said "These are apparently Satan's Christmas lights because only the red ones are lighting up." :lol:

[KiaKat]

:lol:

I only use white lights, both at the store and at home. I've always preferred the shiny to the colourful.

I'm trying to clean up the flat this weekend so I can get some decorating done tomorrow, but there's a problem with that...

My fridge is broken. Has stopped cooling entirely. So that means all the party prep stuff I was planning is not possible...which means I have to wait till next weekend, when the party is (Sunday evening), to do the prep.

Oh god this is going to be hell. Fairway Market on a Saturday... Someone save me?

[BookstoreEscapee]

:lol:

I only use white lights, both at the store and at home. I've always preferred the shiny to the colourful.

I prefer the white lights, too. My parents used to always do green garland and white lights along the porch railing, with red lighted bells hanging in the middle. Lately he's taken to using colored lights, though.

There is a house I used to pass every day that just put a simple wreath with a red bow under each window. It looked really nice, because the house is off-white with dark green shutters to begin with.

What I hate are those giant inflatable lawn things. And there is a house I pass on my way to work that's got 6 or 7 of them...but when I pass in the morning they are deflated and just laying on the grass. Last year there were 2 houses that I passed, which had 4 and 6 of them, respectively, and they both had them just laying out there until March.

[KiaKat]

*nods*

I love the subtle decorating. Only external decorations I do is candles in the windows, and the inside decor tends to be on the restrained side - garland and lights over the large arch between kitchen and living room, tree, and maybe some Christmas candles on a couple tables, plus a bowl of cinnamon-scented pinecones on the sofa table. Though that usually ends up becoming a cat-nomming station.

This year I think I'll put the pinecones on the kitchen table and do a dried eucalyptus arrangement in the living room.

And *NEVER* any inflatables. EVER.

[Reyneth]

What I hate are those giant inflatable lawn things. And there is a house I pass on my way to work that's got 6 or 7 of them...but when I pass in the morning they are deflated and just laying on the grass. Last year there were 2 houses that I passed, which had 4 and 6 of them, respectively, and they both had them just laying out there until March.

If you weren't in NJ, I'd swear you lived right down the street from me. It's....mind boggling. I need to get a photo sometime. And they do it for Halloween and Thanksgiving too!:eek:

[BookstoreEscapee]

If you weren't in NJ, I'd swear you lived right down the street from me. It's....mind boggling. I need to get a photo sometime. And they do it for Halloween and Thanksgiving too!:eek:

Oh, there's another house I pass that has two of the biggest ones I've seen...problem is, their "yard" is about 3 feet from the house to the sidewalk.

My parents' neighbors across the street have a jack-o-lantern and a turkey, and a Christmas one (snowglobe or something? Charlie Brown and Snoopy decorating the doghouse). At least they only put up the one, and they don't go overboard with the rest of the lights and stuff. There's a house near me that has the yard practically filled with lights and figurines and stuff. I swear people use Christmas as an excuse to see how much crap they can fit in their yard, regardless of how it looks. I've seen plenty of elaborate displays that are really impressive (though they make me glad I don't live across the street from them), but for the most part, I think that less is more when it comes to decorating.

And with that said, I'll leave this (http://failblog.org/2009/11/03/holiday-lighting-win/) here. :p

[Rapscallion]

I dont want to be around when its time to rip those off...... Lol.

Me neither.

Rapscallion