Let's Show Some of Our Christmas Decorations

[Janet]

Here is my tree. I didn't want to put up the one we had, I just felt like it was too big and took up too much space. A few weeks back, I went to Wal Mart and bought this 6 ft tree for $35.

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I made the snowmen underneath and I made the Santa and fireplace below...

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And then this is where we hang our stockings..

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I love looking at how others decorate...so come on now...start sharing!!:)

[Gina]

Janet I love your Christmas tree and decorations. You are very talented, the snowman and fireplace came out great. I will post after I put the tree up and decorate today. I got a late start...lol

I to am looking forward to seeing everyone's pictures... Good idea Janet!

[DianaB]

Your tree looks very pretty!!! It fits the size of your room very well too and I love the other decorations that you have as well. I really, really like the stockings on the fireplace mantle. I so wish that we had a fireplace, especially when it comes to decorating for Christmas.

I don't have any decorations out yet so I can't post any pictures.......anyway not yet.

[Marilyn]

Well, our tree is finally in the living room, but not one decoration on it yet. Hopefully tomorrow afternoon. I've made 19 fruit cakes so far and 5 more to make tomorrow afternoon and I'll be finished. Everything is chopped and ready to go, so should be able to do some decorating, too and will try to post some pics.

[pope1982]

I finally got the inside taken care of, I think my camera battery finally gave up the good fight :confused:
I couldn't even get pictures of my niece at her first birthday party yesterday!

Janet, I am so jealous of your huge fireplace :eek: I love your decorations :thumbup:

Here are a few pictures of how I decorate. I do our tree in winter colors, this year I have it in front of the front window and a beautiful tree skirt I wish I could wear as a dress myself, I got at Marshalls on sale after the holidays last year
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v636/pope1982/Christmas%2007/ChristmasTree07.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v636/pope1982/Christmas%2006%20Masons%20first/Livingroom.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v636/pope1982/Christmas%2006%20Masons%20first/stockings.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v636/pope1982/Christmas%2006%20Masons%20first/diningroom2.jpg

I have to tackle outside today :rolleyes:

[Janet]

Pope your tree is so beautiful and I love your treetop angel. Maybe I should consider winter colors for next year. I really like the warm feeling your tree gives me. You have a very pretty home and I love all your decorations...love the coffe table decor....everything.

[Gina]

Pope you decorated your tree beautifully, and the rest of the house.. Very pretty... I will try to get my pictures up tonight once I finish.

[Mandy]

Here are a few pics, but we still not done decorating yet.
This year we decided to get a real tree.

[2tiredmom]

Here's a pic of my tree with my grandson. Sorry you can't see the top but as you can see I was
only thinking of one thing. LOL

[Gina]

Well I finally got my tree up and decorated in my living room. Tomorrow I will finish decorating around the house. I am not putting up my village this year.. But I will add my snowmen collection and Elvis Graceland. Will take photos when that is up...

[Gina]

Mandy I love your tree and Santa set up.. Linda your tree is very pretty but the package undeneath is soo handsome.. lol

[pope1982]

Beautiful homes, trees and grandsons ;) everyone!

[Janet]

Here are a few pics, but we still not done decorating yet.
This year we decided to get a real tree.


Beautiful Mandy. I love real trees...I'm just so afraid of fire. That Santa is awesome

[Janet]

Well I finally got my tree up and decorated in my living room. Tomorrow I will finish decorating around the house. I am not putting up my village this year.. But I will add my snowmen collection and Elvis Graceland. Will take photos when that is up...

Gina I love your tree too. I tried to do mine in all gold with a few trinkets added in, but yours is really lovely. Maybe I should get a gold ribbon instead of the silver beads...LOL. I'm just not good at decorating.

[Marilyn]

Okay, here goes. I'm going to try to put some links to some pics. Hope this works.

1. Tree & fireplace:
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u300/mhorst_photos/Christmas%20Decorating%2008/DSC_0047.jpg


2. Staircase, had problems getting this one to display correctly.
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u300/mhorst_photos/Christmas%20Decorating%2008/DSC_0044.jpg

3. Closeup inside tree. Hubby says we need to put this one on next year's Christmas Cards.
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u300/mhorst_photos/Christmas%20Decorating%2008/DSC_0031.jpg

I'd do more, but I'm just learning how to do this again. Haven't used Photobucket in over a year.

So glad we finally got our decorating done!!!

[2tiredmom]

WOW!!! Great Pics everyone. It looks like Christmas to me.:presents2::gbhouse::tree1::santa:

[donna1990]

They are all so nice.
Here is mine.

[Janet]

What a cute decoration....where's his tinsel???? LOL.

[gja1000]

Marilyn, your decorations are gorgeous and your husband is right, that should be your Christmas card next year!!!

[Marilyn]

Marilyn, your decorations are gorgeous and your husband is right, that should be your Christmas card next year!!!

Oh, thank you. I'm experimenting with my new camera.

[Shada]

Great Holiday decorating everyone!

Sadly to others, I do no decorating at all. Makes all my friends 'nuts', they all think I should put up a tree, but for me, I would rather enjoy the sights most other people work so hard to achieve!! It is tradition for me on Christmas Eve to drive around town to peek and enjoy the festive lights others display. I so appreciate and love what so many do to celebrate this wonderous season.

Marilyn, that photo of of the inside of your tree should be your next Christmas card! Beautiful!!


Thank you all for sharing, hope to see more festive pictures soon!!

[pope1982]

lol Donna

Beautiful pictures ladies, keep them coming!

[Lindsey]

Here is my house :) We just have a little tree here. I will take pictures of my parents' house and post them up after Christmas. This is the first year I haven't put up the tree back home, so I hope my mom did just as good a job!

[Lindsey]

And some more!

[Janet]

Lindsey I think your decor is very nice. You have a very pretty tree.

[gja1000]

All I've done is get the tree up and it looks like that will be it for this year. For some reason I just don't have the oomph to climb in the attic and get things down. We'll be gone the week between Christmas and new years so I would be taking them down right when we get back, so I guess I'll just leave them in the attic this year.....

[Mandy]

I really love everyones decorations, looking very good girls!!!

Here are some of my Santa's and the girls.

[gja1000]

I especially like the furry decorations in pics two and three :D

[Gina]

I love everyones decorations and tree , beautiful. Mandy I collect santas and snowmen.

Like Gayle I did not take out all my stuff this year, I put out a few snowmen usually I have my whole house decorated.. Christmas came to fast and I was to lazy to go into my attic to pull out all boxes...


I usually put out a village this year I just took out Elvis Presleys Graceland, normally the trees on sides light up and twinkle I guess the fuse burnt out.. Here are a few more shots..

[Janet]

All I've done is get the tree up and it looks like that will be it for this year. For some reason I just don't have the oomph to climb in the attic and get things down. We'll be gone the week between Christmas and new years so I would be taking them down right when we get back, so I guess I'll just leave them in the attic this year.....

I love the pictures you took Gayle, your decorations are really nice!


I really love everyones decorations, looking very good girls!!!

Here are some of my Santa's and the girls.

I love your Santa's Mandy...I should collect something..lol. I think I'll just ad your beautiful girls to my collection!


I love everyones decorations and tree , beautiful. Mandy I collect santas and snowmen.

Like Gayle I did not take out all my stuff this year, I put out a few snowmen usually I have my whole house decorated.. Christmas came to fast and I was to lazy to go into my attic to pull out all boxes...


I usually put out a village this year I just took out Elvis Presleys Graceland, normally the trees on sides light up and twinkle I guess the fuse burnt out.. Here are a few more shots..

Gina, a fellow busdriver and I were just saying that so far this year has gone so fast. Won't be long till spring break and then school will be out for the summer.

I love your EP Graceland... I had never seen anything like that. My best friend absolutely LOVED Elvis.

[AngieDoogles]

The first pic is our Christmas tree. This is the first year we've had a full-size tree and we love it! We still use our smaller tree for family ornaments.

The second pics are my sister's Christmas photos that went on Mom's cards. I messed up the lighting on the first one, but I still think the pose is cute so I kept it.

[DianaB]

Everyone's trees and decorations look so nice!!! I only put up my tree this year. With everything that's been going on my heart just hasn't been on Christmas. I didn't even put the ornaments on it that I usually do but I'm thinking now about how easy it's going to be to take down and put away. Maybe I should think about scaling down. Thanks so much for sharing your pictures. I really enjoyed seeing your decorations!!!

[donna1990]

The first pic is our Christmas tree. This is the first year we've had a full-size tree and we love it! We still use our smaller tree for family ornaments.

The second pics are my sister's Christmas photos that went on Mom's cards. I messed up the lighting on the first one, but I still think the pose is cute so I kept it.

Love your tree, your sister and that maltese, who's is it? Mine passed away 2 years ago, he was 16.

[AngieDoogles]

Love your tree, your sister and that maltese, who's is it? Mine passed away 2 years ago, he was 16.

I'm so sorry about your maltese, but I'm glad you got to spend 16 years with him. Chipper belongs to my mom, Forgivenmom5. She is Maltchimom on Maltesetalk if you are a member there.

[Janet]

I really loved seeing everyones decorations. Tomorrow I'm planning on putting mine away. I was going to do that the other day and time has a way of just slipping away. Tomorrow for sure.....I think! LOL

[DianaB]

My tree is going to stay up for awhile. I just don't feel like taking it down yet. Besides, I'm going to start babysitting Karlie starting tomorrow and I'm not sure what kind of help I'd have with a 2 1/2 yr. old!!!! I'm looking forward to having her!!

[Marilyn]

Our tree is still up and probably won't come down until New Year's day or maybe even next weekend. We're still recovering from all the business (that's busyness) of the holidays. There was a lot of intense wrapping, bowmaking, cooking, baking, dishwashing, and spending time with family. We've been to three movie in the past 5 days. Not to mention the usual laundry and such. I go back to work this morning and have 1/2 day off on Wednesday, all day Thursday and back to work on Friday, so somewhere in there we have to find time to take the tree and decorations down and do a good cleaning. We're going to a church New Year's Eve party which should be fun.

Hubby has been working off and on here at home during the festivities drawing house and cabinet plans for the projects he's getting ready to start. He signed two contracts last week and hopefully another this week. We were so worried, but all is working out and his business if picking up finally.

[Janet]

What movies did you see Marilyn? I think Ricky and I are gong to go see Marley and Me. I read the book and the reviews say it's very good.

[AngieDoogles]

Our tree is still up and probably won't come down until New Year's day or maybe even next weekend. We're still recovering from all the business (that's busyness) of the holidays. There was a lot of intense wrapping, bowmaking, cooking, baking, dishwashing, and spending time with family. We've been to three movie in the past 5 days. Not to mention the usual laundry and such. I go back to work this morning and have 1/2 day off on Wednesday, all day Thursday and back to work on Friday, so somewhere in there we have to find time to take the tree and decorations down and do a good cleaning. We're going to a church New Year's Eve party which should be fun.

Hubby has been working off and on here at home during the festivities drawing house and cabinet plans for the projects he's getting ready to start. He signed two contracts last week and hopefully another this week. We were so worried, but all is working out and his business if picking up finally.

We're getting ready to leave for our second movie in two days. We're taking my brother Randy to see Despereaux. He LOVES going to the theater so we bought him gift certificates for Christmas. I also got my hubby some gift certificates as well and we saw Valkyrie. What have you seen so far? We still have enough left for one more movie. Any suggestions?

[DianaB]

I really want to see Marley and me too!!! The book was so good!!

[Marilyn]

We saw:

1. Benjamin Button - a very good movie for lots of reasons, good special effects!! and story line. Up to the standards you would expect for an actor like Brad Pit. However, do have some issues with the moral standards of the story line.

2. Twilight - a disappointment. The author wrote the screen play and they should have had a real screen writer do it. Also, it was obviously produced on a very low budget. It had potential, but the studio just did not have what it takes to make a quality production. The story line was pretty close to the book though condensed as it had to be for the time constraints, and the ending was different than the book.

3. Seven Pounds - Very good quality movie, up to the standards you would expect from Will Smith. However, without spoiling it for others, IMO, it glorified something that should not be glorified. We left concerned that others may emulate the Will Smith character.

We wanted to see Valkyrie, but by the time we got to the the ticket office (long lines on Christmas Day), there were only 20 seats left and we were a group of 5 and would have been sitting on one of the front two rows, so opted for Benjamin Button instead.

[judy]

I love everybody's trees and collections (and pets!). I have my little laser tree and angel, which will stay up until next week. I also have a wreath on my front door and a lovely lighted one on my deck, which Jessie bought me.

Cleanup should take about 15 minutes if I take a coffee break in the middle. I love it!

I did find the box with my old tree and ornaments. When I get a chance, I'm going to look at them and decide if I'm going to keep it or give the good stuff to Jessie.
She has tons of my Christmas stuff all over the house. It's great having a daughter to hand these kind of things down to.

[pope1982]

Okay, I got a picture of our tree this year with my new camera and our Christmas card holder

[Janet]

OOOHHHH your tree is really pretty pope, I love the tree skirt too. I've never seen a card holder like that....I want one now...lol.

[DianaB]

Your tree is very beautiful, Pope!!! And I love the card holder too. I need to find something like that to display my cards too. We get so many photo cards anymore that it would be nice to display them.

We took our tree down yesterday because we're having company over tonight for New Year's Eve and there will be small children. We figured that it would help the night to go better with it down and the ornaments put away.

[AngieDoogles]

Becky, your tree is beautiful! We are taking ours down today. This year was definitely one of my favorite Christmases. It will be sad to take down the last of the decorations.

[Marilyn]

I think ours will be coming down this afternoon, too. All in all, this was one of the best Christmases too, and it is hard to say goodbye.

[AngieDoogles]

At least we have a new year of holidays to look forward to. Maybe this year will be even better!