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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2020
By: Amara Date: June 16, 2020, 10:08 am
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I do, Mariam, and if all is well or at least pretty well, you
can count on photos if you want them. (I also post to the usual
Show Us Your Christmas Tree discussion over at Houzz that will
be in its third year this year. People post photos of all their
decorations and it can run extremely long.)
Whatever happens with the virus and the precautions I do plan to
decorate and enjoy. I even bought a couple of items after the
holidays to add to this year's decor.
#Post#: 53194--------------------------------------------------
Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2020
By: Chez Miriam Date: June 16, 2020, 11:41 am
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[quote author=Amara link=topic=1476.msg53172#msg53172
date=1592320108]
I do, Mariam, and if all is well or at least pretty well, you
can count on photos if you want them. (I also post to the usual
Show Us Your Christmas Tree discussion over at Houzz that will
be in its third year this year. People post photos of all their
decorations and it can run extremely long.)
Whatever happens with the virus and the precautions I do plan to
decorate and enjoy. I even bought a couple of items after the
holidays to add to this year's decor.
[/quote]
After-holiday-sales are my main source of new decorations these
days [or ones I pick up at the equivalent of yard sales].
I look forward to a lovely summer, and then seeing pics of your
autumnal decorations, Thanksgiving [intrigued by those; we don't
have it, and I've never thought to look], and of course "the
most wonderful time of the year". ;D
#Post#: 53627--------------------------------------------------
Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2020
By: Amara Date: June 25, 2020, 11:13 pm
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I love Thanksgiving and I give it my full attention. (You could
always bring it to the UK, you know, but not with pilgrims
unless you want.)
: )
Here is my schedule: Around the end of September or beginning of
October I lay out my Autumn decorations. For some reason, I
gravitate toward pumpkins, both real and faux (metal, glass,
burlap, etc.). I have them in colors I love but not usually
orange. I also buy from Trader Joe's those pumpkins on a stick,
which are not pumpkins but decorative eggplants, and dried seeds
and grasses and wheat, and putka pods.
I loathe Halloween but I do have a mini set up of two small
houses alongside a graveyard, a scene on a kind of pedestal that
I painted and decorated along with black cheesecloth, and a
brass candlestick I spray painted black, plus several wine
bottles (labels soaked off) that I spray painted either matte or
shiny black that I stuck half-burned black candles in (and
dripped a little red candle wax on the candles and bottles to
make them appear blood-spotted).
Come November 1, I remove the Halloween stuff, and add to the
pumpkins and dried decor. This year, because my mother died on
Memorial Day weekend, I got from her house a small, perhaps 6
inches high, lightweight cardboard stove (from around 1910) with
a door that opens to show a turkey in the oven. It's a silly
thing, probably from a Hallmark store, but I have liked it for
years. This year it will grace my home.
Finally, the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend, and having taken
down and put away all autumn and Thanksgiving decorations, I
will get out all the Christmas stuff and for two days put it up.
It sounds like I have a lot and overdo the house, but I really
don't. I am very fussy about having only quality items and just
enough so it is, as Goldilocks put it, "not too [much], not too
[little], but just right."While I love looking at decorations
and blogs and websites and even occasionally on Pinterest and in
stores and at thrift stores and so on, I really buy very little
because I don't just have to love it, I have to be willing to
store it for 10.5 months of the year. The last point keeps me
focused and I pass up far, far more than I consider buying.
Pumpkins on a stick:
HTML https://www.gardenhoard.com/ornamental-eggplant-pumpkin-on-a-stick-seeds.html
Dried Decor:
HTML https://www.drieddecor.com/
Putka pods:
HTML https://www.etsy.com/search?q=putka%20pods
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2020
By: Chez Miriam Date: July 7, 2020, 9:16 am
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I had never heard of putka pods - I learn something new every
day. They do look like teeny-tiny pumpkins!
[quote author=Amara link=topic=1476.msg53627#msg53627
date=1593144812]
I love Thanksgiving and I give it my full attention. (You could
always bring it to the UK, you know, but not with pilgrims
unless you want.)
: )
[/quote]
[emoji1]
[quote]
<snip>
It sounds like I have a lot and overdo the house, but I really
don't. I am very fussy about having only quality items and just
enough so it is, as Goldilocks put it, "not too [much], not too
[little], but just right."While I love looking at decorations
and blogs and websites and even occasionally on Pinterest and in
stores and at thrift stores and so on, I really buy very little
because I don't just have to love it, I have to be willing to
store it for 10.5 months of the year. The last point keeps me
focused and I pass up far, far more than I consider buying.
[/quote]
This is what keeps my Christmas decorations in check! I nearly
got rid of all the cheap/unloved baubles when I packed away this
year, but I'd seen "Christmas wreath made of baubles" on
Pinterest, and I now have a "project" box. I also inherited a
load of white wire coathangers, so I may well be spending my
free moments next Christmas making wreaths. Once I have one on
every door, I suspect it may be time to stop adding to that
collection!
For Hallowe'en, I just have whatever pumpkin has been carved
[and, more importantly, turned into food], but I did add a black
(feels heavy enough for) concrete ghost tealight holder last
year. That, however, stays on the bookshelf because a) I would
never be able to find it again, and b) it pleased me to make a
little bunch of dead flower stalks (from black bag ties), and
that makes me smile. Oh, and I also have the colour-changing
spider [that lives on the bookcase], and my 'everyday'
glow-in-the-dark spiders that live by my bed [nightlights are
now so bright with LED bulbs, and I like having the completeness
taken away from the dark when I sleep]. Not a lot of effort.
I'm looking forward to the pics of your this year's decorations.
#Post#: 54284--------------------------------------------------
Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2020
By: Jayhawk Date: July 8, 2020, 2:45 pm
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[quote author=Amara link=topic=1476.msg53627#msg53627
date=1593144812]
I love Thanksgiving and I give it my full attention. (You could
always bring it to the UK, you know, but not with pilgrims
unless you want.)
: )
Here is my schedule: Around the end of September or beginning of
October I lay out my Autumn decorations. For some reason, I
gravitate toward pumpkins, both real and faux (metal, glass,
burlap, etc.). I have them in colors I love but not usually
orange. I also buy from Trader Joe's those pumpkins on a stick,
which are not pumpkins but decorative eggplants, and dried seeds
and grasses and wheat, and putka pods.
I loathe Halloween but I do have a mini set up of two small
houses alongside a graveyard, a scene on a kind of pedestal that
I painted and decorated along with black cheesecloth, and a
brass candlestick I spray painted black, plus several wine
bottles (labels soaked off) that I spray painted either matte or
shiny black that I stuck half-burned black candles in (and
dripped a little red candle wax on the candles and bottles to
make them appear blood-spotted).
Come November 1, I remove the Halloween stuff, and add to the
pumpkins and dried decor. This year, because my mother died on
Memorial Day weekend, I got from her house a small, perhaps 6
inches high, lightweight cardboard stove (from around 1910) with
a door that opens to show a turkey in the oven. It's a silly
thing, probably from a Hallmark store, but I have liked it for
years. This year it will grace my home.
Finally, the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend, and having taken
down and put away all autumn and Thanksgiving decorations, I
will get out all the Christmas stuff and for two days put it up.
It sounds like I have a lot and overdo the house, but I really
don't. I am very fussy about having only quality items and just
enough so it is, as Goldilocks put it, "not too [much], not too
[little], but just right."While I love looking at decorations
and blogs and websites and even occasionally on Pinterest and in
stores and at thrift stores and so on, I really buy very little
because I don't just have to love it, I have to be willing to
store it for 10.5 months of the year. The last point keeps me
focused and I pass up far, far more than I consider buying.
Pumpkins on a stick:
HTML https://www.gardenhoard.com/ornamental-eggplant-pumpkin-on-a-stick-seeds.html
Dried Decor:
HTML https://www.drieddecor.com/
Putka pods:
HTML https://www.etsy.com/search?q=putka%20pods
[/quote]
Amara - I think you and I follow the same decorating calendar!
#Post#: 54291--------------------------------------------------
Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2020
By: Amara Date: July 8, 2020, 5:34 pm
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Ooh, lovely, Jawhawk. I'd love to see yours when the time comes
up! It will surely be sweeter this year with the virus mess.
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