Holiday Decorating Ideas, Themes, Photos etc

[WildBlue]

BerryMouse!!! Those ornaments look good enough to eat!!!

[BlondePonyTail]

Im putting up the tree RIGHT now! My mom moved out last year and I am excited to bring out MY Christmas decorations which haven't seen the light of day in at least 2 years!

My decorations are peacock colors! ( Her are Burgundy, Mauve and Ivory blech!) I will post pictures when I'm done!

<3
BPT

[wyndstar]

those are very nice BerryMouse! you shouldn't have troubles selling those!

i forgot to mention... i have lived with roomates who are christmas fanatics and would decorate in september if they could haha! but my golden rule has always been, never until after Nov. 11 (Remembrance Day).. i think it's disrespectful to decorate before then. and then i created a new rule.. not until Dec. 1st. haha cause she would totally decorate on nov. 12th and then i'd be so sick of christmas by the time christmas rolled around. i also work in retail so... yah that doesn't help lol. though thankfully now finally i'm in a job that doesn't play music.. so i don't have to listen to christmas music for months i do work at costco so yah we've had christmas stuff out for almost a month already
i'm not really a 'bah humbug' i just hate the commercialization of it all

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[MikeysGrrrl]

I love seeing everyone's pictures and I can't wait to see more the closer we get to Christmas

I can imagine working in retail can make just about anyone sick of the holidays, seeing decorations day in and day out, hearing Christmas music all the time

Our pictures will get posted probably around November 23, I'm so excited

  I will admit that about 10 years ago I put up my tree Halloween night, mind you it was just the tree with white lights, no decorations at all Clearly no self restraint at that time lol

[BlondePonyTail]

Self restraint is over rated! I am having so much fin today putting up my decorations! A Jehovah's Witness came to my door while I had Christmas music blaring and Christmas decorations ALL over the place! LOL No disrespect, but she ended up handing me the pamphlet and leaving without to much conversation!

CHRISTMAS! Might be a rough Christmas money wise... but I am going to at least enjoy the season. A few presents for my daughter and fiance' and a HAPPY home is all I can ask for.



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I will take a better lit picture tomorrow when there is daylight... but I am so happy with it! I just need to put the skirt and decide what will top it!

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And the wreath I made
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[wyndstar]

very pretty! love your wreath!
i usually don't put a wreath on the door. i dunno why just don't think of it. i have some pointsetta gel window clings on the kitchen window that i actually left up all year (tee hee) but the snowflake ones on the balcony doors melted oops forgot about direct sunlight!!
still seems a tad early for me to start decorating but our staff christmas party is dec. 1st and i'm totally going to stalk this thread for ideas so you guys will probably inspire me to decorate earlier than normal haha!

[MikeysGrrrl]

Love those colours BPT, very similar to the colours we had last year (well minus the gold). That wreath you made is lovely and I can't wait to see more pics of your tree in better lighting

[WildBlue]

Ooooo! I like the peacock colors. That works very well for Christmas!
So, blondeponytail, you fixed those blinking lights?!
That is IMO the most tedious part of decorating!!! Pull a light, put in a light, pull a light, put in a light... GGGAAAHHH!!! LOL

[ashes]

I don't put our tree up until after Thanksgiving.  That's what I do on Black Friday - instead of shopping, I take down the Thanksgiving decor and put up Christmas!

That being said, we have 7 trees that go up - our big 7 1/2 footer that's in the family room, then one in each of the girls' rooms (and those are decorated with all our pony ornaments), then two lighted ones on our porch flanking the front door, one at the end of the hallway and two in our bedroom.

I don't have a theme for our family tree - it's ornaments from when I was a child, ornaments we've made, and ornaments we've collected over 10 years of marriage.  And I have both colored and white lights.  I love color!   But I'm super stoked for this year, because my mom is giving me her bubble lights that we had on the tree when I was young - boy do those bring back memories!  So I guess it will have a bit of a retro vibe this year. 

[Loa]

Whenever I need inspiration I head straight to Pinterest!

[kezrob23]

i started off just with lime green and hot pink on a 4 ft fakie. then added blue and orange, then purple... so my tree is now a rainbow!! i REALLY want to add yellow, but can't find nice bright yellow decs anywhere!! same with orange - most of my orange i made myself

last year was our first year with a real tree, and the first time in 5 years that i haven't pulled down and redone all the tree decs 5 times!! i normally just have to keep redoing it till it's just right but pine needles are very scratchy so i tend to just leave it now
this year i may actually place the decorations in rainbow order, rather than evenly distributing all the colours.

here's 2011
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and 2012
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i also only do white lights that don't flash... you'd think with a rainbow tree i'd like rainbow lights!! i'm also not a huge fan of thick bushy tinsel, whereas my sisters love it! and now that my daughter is getting older, the kinder and school decorations kinda have to make an appearance on the tree - i love that she makes them and they are so cute, but they don't go with my theme

[MikeysGrrrl]

Love those pics Kezrob I love your idea of doing the colours in the order of a rainbow, that'd be neat to see

[kezrob23]

Thanks I can't wait to get our tree now to sew how it will look! I saw one I think on pinterest, but it was on a white tree. I reckon it'll look hot tho!!

[summerday]

I love hearing about and seeing how everybody decorates. I love what y'all have done.

We've started having a company put white lights on the house. It's just too high and too steep for us. We do some other outside lights, too. We get real trees so that doesn't go up until a few days before Christmas. I let the kids pick out a new ornament each. We have pretty much a hodge pudge of ornaments. Last year I bought the kids a myself mini trees to decorate however we wanted. I also got a new wreath that I love. I don't overly decorate the inside, but there is usually at least one gingerbread house.

Here's the family tree.
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My daughter's tree.
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My son's tree.
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A couple of pieces from the Lego Christmas Village.
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And the wreath.
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[MikeysGrrrl]

So pretty Summerday