Anyone listening to Christmas Music Yet?
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| Mon, 11-17-2003 - 11:54am |
I'm in the spirit to decorate. Does anyone have a few Holiday decorating ideas that they do every year? My favorite one, besides the tree in the living room, is a fresh wreath I hang on my antique oak bevel glass mirror in the living room. The smell of the tree and the wreath is awesome. Thinking about getting another one to hang in the dining room this year, even though the dining room is a mess from striping wall paper, patching walls, etc., and I know won't get painted before the holidays. Or WILL it???? Hmmmmmm. DH would kill me if I told him I wanted that done before Christmas. 'Course I still have to decide on the paint, but if we could at least get the ceilings done and the walls, I can worry about the rest later.
Sassy<-rubbing her hands together gleefully :)

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I love the sound of your wreath. I may put one up in the house too. I love when we put the tree up and the house smells so good.My favorite decorating thing is something I started a few years back.I put up a small tree on a kitchen counter and around it I put all the Santa figurines Dh and DS have given me each year.
Miss P
I really like the mantle and hearth decorated with fancy flowered garland, nutcrackers, stocking holders and stockings, and other assorted goodies. I have a small lighted tree I put on top of the TV. We put Christmas cards we receive around the windows and door openings to frame them and look festive. We do LOTS of outside lights, wreaths hanging from plaid ribbons with a candle below in each of the five front windows like you see in Williamsburg, a big wreath on the door, a live tree, and assorted music boxes, china decorations, and candles. I put out orange-cinnamon scented pine cones, cinnamon sticks, and burn different kinds of oil and simmering liquid (evergreen and apple cinnamon) to make the house smell good.
I haven't brought out the Christmas music yet even though I've wrapped about 15 gifts. Yesterday, I noticed there was some great Christmas music playing in the little store at Cracker Barrel and a number of people (including myself) were humming or singing along with it.
I hope to get a cut glass fireplace screen with a place for votive candles behind it in various spots before Christmas. That way if it's too warm for a fire, I will still have firelight from the fireplace.
Rhonda
Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time disapproving of others.
~~Rhonda~~
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DH does not like to hear the Christmas music too far in advance, so I have a couple of tapes that DD and I play early. One is sweet guitar Christmas music and the other, which is almost worn out, is music box Christmas music. They are both very beautiful.
One of my favorite things to decorate is a pine cone tree that my mother and I made together many years ago. Its about 3 feet tall and DD and I decorate it with tiny ornaments that I've picked up through the years. But, last year, DH would not put it in the attic for me, and it got moldy in the basement--stinky too. I plan to set it out in our cold rain in hopes that it will bounce back.
Also, I bought DD a mini tree for her bedroom when she was about 3 years old. We decorate that one very early and put her tiny ornaments on it. Including one's she's made each year like cut out snow flakes, rings from construction paper. It is so beautiful!
Chipper
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Phyllis
Rhonda
Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time disapproving of others.
~~Rhonda~~
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Just call me Little elf from now until December 25. I have had Christmas Music on....
I don't know what I'm putting up for decorations, as I don't know what I have. I know I have a small table top tree, so it will go up, with whatever ornaments DH left with me. I know that I have my Cross Stitch Angel that will go up, provided I can find a nail or something to hang her with - otherwise she will be propped up on the top of a bookcase. Don't know what else I have, or where I can put it - the joys of being in a small apartment and not going through the Christmas stuff when I put stuff away in August - just shoved those boxes into the back of the closet.
Little
Be the change you want to see in the world ~ Mahatma Gandhi
I heard it in San Francisco everywhere.
Donna
Rhonda
Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time disapproving of others.
~~Rhonda~~
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Throw in the version of the Nutcracker with Mikhail Barishnikov and Gelsey Kirkland, and you've got my Christmas must-see list.
For Thanksgiving, I gotta search for the Buchmans' first Thanksgiving program from Mad About You; the one with the three turkeys that 1) Murray the dog ate, 2) Jamie threw out the window; and 3) the one that fell off the rope as they were trying to lift it in through the kitchen. I know we have that one on tape somewhere. Classic.
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