The Decorations of Christmas
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Welcome to another festively fantastic thread focusing on this Christmassy time of year
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This thread is all about the decorations! If there's one thing I love about Christmas, it is getting out all of those traditional decorations and reliving the memories associated with them. I love the way a room looks when it's lit only by Christmas lights, and nothing else. There's something magical about watching the snow fly outside, while looking to a nativity.
So let's talk decorations, and specifically, who does what? How do you celebrate the holiday?
In our house, we usually put up 3 Christmas trees. The first is a formal Victorian style tree with white lights and mauve decorations. This is the tree that my Mom loves, and it has to be perfect. It's the tree that you get out and measure the distance between the beads, put the bows in just the right spaces, and have the exact amount of space between ornaments. It's beautiful, but by Jove it takes a while to put up
. We also put a small, four-foot tree in our dining room, and basically just put coloured lights on it. Our main family tree (the one under which the presents go) is in our family room. It has coloured lights and a hodgepodge of ornaments both old and new. It's great to get out these little pine cone birds that my deceased Grandmother made 50 years ago. It's even more incredible to look at these little snowy house ornaments that were made by her mother (my great-grandmother) nearly 80 years ago. There are funny little ornaments that my sister and I made as children, incredibly corny/ugly ornaments that we've accrued over the year, and really just about anything you can think of. This tree is my favourite; it has no reasoning to it. You just stuff an ornament wherever there is room, cover it with popcorn and gumdrops, and voila ![Big Grin :D](./images/smilies/4.gif)
In addition to trees, my Mom has quite the snowman collection, so a LOT of them get put out on display throughout the holidays.
Another thing we do is to put pine boughs around all of the woodwork of our family room, and lace white lights through them. It's gorgeous to turn them on.
We have two nativities, the main one consists of Mary, Joseph, Jesus in a manger, 3 wisemen, a shepherd, and an oddly placed bagpiper. We never quite figured out where this bonny Scottish lad came from. . . but we figured that he might be either a part of the entourage of the wisemen, or entertainment for the shepherd. It also has four sheep, a donkey, a cow, a camel, and an angel on a string that you can suspend over the manger. The second nativity is much smaller. It only has wisemen, an angel, Mary, Joseph and Jesus. We usually put that on in our kitchen. My sister always plays with it when she comes over this time of year, rearranging it to make it look like the wisemen are kidnapping Mary, and that the angel is rescuing them, or knocking one of them over to look like a murder has taken place, while the other figurines try to solve whodunnit
. It's great fun, and a funny tradition.
But that's enough about me. What about the rest of you? How do you deck the halls?
Here are some questions to get the ball rolling:
-What do you put at the top of your tree? An angel? A star? A bow?
-What's your opinion on tinsel?
-Do you decorate the outside of your home too?
-What are some funny stories that are associated with some of your decorations?
-What are the most prized parts of your Christmas decorations?
Happy Christmas to all!
![Hi hi hi ;))](./images/smilies/71.gif)
This thread is all about the decorations! If there's one thing I love about Christmas, it is getting out all of those traditional decorations and reliving the memories associated with them. I love the way a room looks when it's lit only by Christmas lights, and nothing else. There's something magical about watching the snow fly outside, while looking to a nativity.
So let's talk decorations, and specifically, who does what? How do you celebrate the holiday?
In our house, we usually put up 3 Christmas trees. The first is a formal Victorian style tree with white lights and mauve decorations. This is the tree that my Mom loves, and it has to be perfect. It's the tree that you get out and measure the distance between the beads, put the bows in just the right spaces, and have the exact amount of space between ornaments. It's beautiful, but by Jove it takes a while to put up
![Hi hi hi ;))](./images/smilies/71.gif)
![Big Grin :D](./images/smilies/4.gif)
In addition to trees, my Mom has quite the snowman collection, so a LOT of them get put out on display throughout the holidays.
Another thing we do is to put pine boughs around all of the woodwork of our family room, and lace white lights through them. It's gorgeous to turn them on.
We have two nativities, the main one consists of Mary, Joseph, Jesus in a manger, 3 wisemen, a shepherd, and an oddly placed bagpiper. We never quite figured out where this bonny Scottish lad came from. . . but we figured that he might be either a part of the entourage of the wisemen, or entertainment for the shepherd. It also has four sheep, a donkey, a cow, a camel, and an angel on a string that you can suspend over the manger. The second nativity is much smaller. It only has wisemen, an angel, Mary, Joseph and Jesus. We usually put that on in our kitchen. My sister always plays with it when she comes over this time of year, rearranging it to make it look like the wisemen are kidnapping Mary, and that the angel is rescuing them, or knocking one of them over to look like a murder has taken place, while the other figurines try to solve whodunnit
![Hi hi hi ;))](./images/smilies/71.gif)
But that's enough about me. What about the rest of you? How do you deck the halls?
Here are some questions to get the ball rolling:
-What do you put at the top of your tree? An angel? A star? A bow?
-What's your opinion on tinsel?
-Do you decorate the outside of your home too?
-What are some funny stories that are associated with some of your decorations?
-What are the most prized parts of your Christmas decorations?
Happy Christmas to all!