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So who has their Christmas tree up?

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I had great expectations of getting ours up this weekend but today I got derailed by a mountain of socks that I finally couldn't ignore. I'm still sorting. :bang:

There was an ad in the paper today for one of those stores that are like Pier 1. They had some adorable beachy ornaments. I thought since this was the year I "discovered" SoWal.com, I'd commemorate with a few starfish on the tree here and there. :clap_1:

How far do you go with the Christmas decorations? Like, do you pull out special holiday china? How lighted up is your yard?

Can you all tell I'm looking for some motivation here? :idontno:
 
Ok mermaid......I always put my tree up the saturday after Thanksgiving. I grew up in a home that went "all out" my mom would pack everything away and replace it with christmas.....soooo thats exactly how I am. I pack away every nick nack, everything in my breakfront and in my entertainment center and put christmas thing"s there instead. I realize this may seem extreme to most people :eek: but it is just the way things were when I was a child so I really love to keep that spirit alive with my own home!!!!! Christmas goes by so fast, four weeks !!! so I enjoy having the tree and decorations up for as long as possible......there is something special about just having the tree lights on and being with my family at night :wub:
 
My family says I always am over the top, but I have some sort of tree in every room--yes, even the bathrooms! Have two big trees, one in the den and one in the formal living room. Finally finished them today-whew! One is done in white and silver, the other is done all in red. Didn't do as much outside as I normally do--I think I mentioned not much help from hubby there! :bang:
I love lights though, so I put more inside this year than usual--garland/lights on mantle, etc.

I have a friend who has a business this time of year I call "Decorating for the Stars"... he just takes all his PTO time during Nov/Dec. and decorates houses of the rich and famous in Dallas. Makes TONS of money in a short period of time. The rest of the year, he flips houses--more money! We can't figure out WHY he has a regular job--more money! Benefits, I guess.

I keep telling him when I get rich and famous, I'm going to hire him to decorate for me at Christmas--THAT to me, would be the ultimate! No more stringing lights!
 
My tree has been up since the Friday after Thanksgiving. I love to do it as a family and the next time we would all be together is Dec. 22, so i get to enjoy it. I do some decorating, but love the Christmas China. Eat all my meals on it. If I had room I would have a different set of dishes for each day of the week...my weakness.
 
This is my first break today...thought I would check in to see what you guys and gals were up too! I am putting up the main tree and it is taking sooooo much time. I swear I will buy a pre lit tree next year!!!! I had to go out to Target in the middle of putting the lights on because half of last years lights didn't work. I must have at least 15 boxes of christmas decor sitting in my entry way that I still have to work on!!!! Oh well, it's worth it, my kids love all the decorations and I LOVE Christmas!!! Everyone needs to post a pic of there tree when they have them up!!! :cool:
 
This will be only the second year we have an artificial tree. When our kids were little, we'd always go to the tree farm out in the country and ride on the wagons out to the fields with a cup of hot chocolate in our hands. Sometimes it felt like we were walking for miles until we found "our" tree.

When the kids turned into teens they got busy and lost interest in that, so now we do the fake tree. At first I thought it was awful--like I was admitting defeat to get one--but seeing that it's so cold and icy this weekend, I don't mind as much. ;-)

One year our house was on a Christmas home tour to benefit one of our local hospitals. A decorator came in and did the house from top to bottom. Christmas was everywhere you looked! It was so beautiful, like our house was a Cinderella pumpkin transformed into a coach. I've never been able to match what the decorator did. The sleeping children in the poem "The Night Before Christmas" might have had dreams of sugarplums, but my dream is of a decorator-to-hire. :floor:
 
Mermaid,
You mentioned the starfish for Chritsmas decorating... I use LOTS of starfish, real ones, for decoating our 2 trees. Years ago at the beach, I bought several handfuls of those very small starfish, about 3" diam., sprayed them with some glitter/glue and hot-glued a short satin ribbon loop to the back of each one, for the "hanger" part. They look great on the tree. Then, I use bronze, ivory or gold small orb ornaments. And yes, I always buy "ocean" decorations. I receive them as gifts too.
 
I just remebered something else "beachy" we do for the Christmas decorating.
Instead of wrapping live, green garland or boughs through our stair banisters, I use yards and yards of ivory tulle with tiny white twinkling lights, intertwined thru the railings & bannisters. At night, it somehow has the illusion of white sand and starlight. It's sort of a nice twist, or change, on the greenery.
 
All your Christmas decorating sounds enchanting!!!

Post pictures, everyone! Spread the Christmas cheer. :clap_1: :clap_1:
 
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