Christmas decorations....

[smudge]

The neighbours across the road put their dec's up on Friday night - the 28 Nov!

They've got red lights in & around their porch & those awful zig zaggy, frenetic ones across their bay windows - enough to start off a migraine!

Do you go overboard like them, or go for the more simplistic, calmer look, with plain twinkling lights on the tree, etc.

Everyone to their own of course & I do love Christmas!

[lozzylou]

i have white ights around my front window and the front bedroom ones and coloured lights on my tree which is in the window. i love xmass but dont really like all the big santa trains, ladders etc that u see flashiall over the houses i feel they look a bit tackey

[smudge]

Good morning lozzy - I'm the same & think too much of anything can look tacky! I've always thought 'less is more'!

However, it's nice for children (& some adults) to walk, or drive around to see all the little grottos people create outside. It must be hard work for some & I'd hate to see their electric bills in January!

Happy Christmas! ;o}

[Jafi]

morning smudge

I only decorate my livingroom. I have a tree, put up some tinsel along the mantel and have one of those lights that look like candles, and hang up my xmas cards, that's it.

I must admit that some peoples houses look lovely all done up, personally i couldn't be bothered to do all that, takes me all my time just to put the lights on the tree.

[B00]

Hiya smudge, hope you and yours are well?? xxx

The only thing I have in my window at Christmas is one of those (now I know there's a proper name for them- just can't remember it!) those arch things with candles in them.

Every year I have an ongoing battle with Mr Boo over the decorations for the room though. Whilst he's happy for everything on the tree and in the room to be colour co-ordinated (white & silver) he will insist on putting up a godawful stuffed santa thing on a parachute from our ceiling light. Not only is it hidiously tacky, and the colours are all wrong, you bang your head on it everytime you stand up and it then breaks into "We Wish You A Merry Christmas". I've hidden the damn thing every year, and every bloody year he finds it again :-(

[squirtle]

Boo..........you should try hiding santa in a charity shop...........Mr Boo might not find it then,.

[B00]

lol yeah squirtle, I threaten to d othat every year, but his little face looks so sad when I say it that I can't bring myself to actually do it.

[smudge]

Morning Jaff - your Christmas setting sounds easy on the eye & lovely. Hope you & yours have a lovely time.

Ha, ha, ha! You never fail to make me laugh BOO! Just what I need on a freezing cold Monday morning! That Santa thingy sounds really comical. I bet mini BOO is getting really excited now!

I always do a Victorian theme with lots of 'strurdy' Church candles around. I also have some small wooden star shapes, painted a matt goldy white & dangle one from each window frame in the bay window (5 in all). They look really nice behind the tree & gently turning from the draft of the windows, lol.

Oh, I can't wait now, altho' it's our Granddaughter's 9th & 6th birthdays on the 4 Dec (born on the same day three years apart), so have to enjoy those first! ;o}

[smudge]

Good idea squirtle - altho' I bet BOO loves him really! ;o}

[natalie_1982]

Not really my scene, but my aunty has her house done up like Blackpool illuminations with deerm snowmen and santas lining the front path that (eerily) sing and dance when you pass them, she has lights all over the front of the house aswell and sends my poor "Yes, dear" uncle up the ladder every year.

Ironically, her living room is very subtle and classy, like something from a NEXT brochure, mostly because most of it is from a NEXT brochure.

It's difficult to say what our house is like as we had only been there 5months last Xmas and so didn't have very much apart from an anorexic looking tree and a few baubles. This year though my little one will be 9months at Christmas so I want to go all out indoors so she can see everything sparkling and shiny.

Outdoors, I doubt I will bother as it's too much expense at the mo

[mrs.chappie]

B00, stuff the bloomin' thing up the chimney ... where it belongs.

He'll never find it there.

[:o)

[B00]

Yeah she is excited, but not as excited as she is today..it's her birthday and she's now " a big girl" at 4 ;-)

She's currently sat amidst the devastation of cards, wrapping paper and new toys threatening to not go to nursery as she doesn't want to leave them !

[natalie_1982]

Mrs chappie, I thought you meant MrB00 then. Though I would imagine B00 has considered doing that many a time, I know I have with my other half.

[B00]

haha @ you two...lol

And yes, I've considered that too!

[natalie_1982]

Oh, love her! I hope she has a fabulous day, which it sounds like she already is X

[mrs.chappie]

LOL @ Nat.

Smudge, don't know if you saw my last post regarding my prob with the wording on the back of last year's Christmas cards .... So I thought I'd tell ya here.

I tried scraping the wording off, but it wasn't good, you could see the knife marks and it didn't look right. So I cut the trees off the front, and stuck them onto my home-made cards. They look quite nice.

Thanks for your suggestion. [:o)

[smudge]

...Back again - bit late today, but just eaten a bowl of porridge with sliced banana - all warm now!

Ah bless, "Happy 4th Birthday little BOO & hope you have a wonderful time at nursery too! -xx-"

I'm sure your house will look lovey Nat & that your little one will enjoy every minute of Christmas, 'specially tearing the paper apart & playing with the sticky bows, bless her! Your Aunt's house sounds great for children & adults passing by - she must get a great deal of pleasure out of doing it up - 'tho I don't envy your poor uncle up the ladder!

No, I didn't get to read your last post on your thread mrs.chappie, but looks like you did well with your decoupage & bet the cards look really nice - problem now solved & a happy mrs.chappie!

Have fun preparing all. -xx-

[Jafi]

Had a bit of trouble finding this place again lol

Thanks Smudge, hope you all do too. Can't believe it's the 1st already. xx