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I know at least one person who has already put their tree up. I didn't bother last year but will probably be putting some up in a couple of weeks time this year.
So who already has decorations up? When do you put them up/take them down?
My tree always looks carp as I'm rubbish at decorating and just end up throwing things on any old way and smothering it in tinsel :o
We're having a real tree again this year so we wont be putting it up as early so that we can have more than a pile of twigs on Xmas day :p Hopefully it will be getting delivered again, although I know Phil is dying to put one on the back of the MR2.
Can't think about anything too Xmassy until after my exam, but I hope to persuede Phil to at least let me put the tinsel up the weekend after. Thing is we might need some more tinsel as the old stuff was kinda measured for the old house and I think this room is bigger.
I always decorate at work, I'll be doing it early next week. Mrs. Feek does it at home and it normally gets done just after LMFs birthday on the 7th.
They stay up until 12th night.
Justsomebloke
28-11-2007, 13:20
I don't do Decs me so everyone who comes round over the years has bought summit with them ;D I now have quite a good collection of little Santas & other crimbo crap so i may go mad me & do it myself :)
Proper bobby basic me :)
I would love to have a real tree but have a feeling the pine needles would end up as rattie food and I'd end up with rattie skewers
I would love to have a real tree but have a feeling the pine needles would end up as rattie food and I'd end up with rattie skewers
Stitch loved the last tree we had! He would go and sit on all the pressies and try and open them, and try and eat the tree, and the baubles, and everything really.
Justsomebloke
28-11-2007, 13:25
If i had a real tree Frank would just Piss up it & get electrocuted :D
I think i'll get one of those mini fake jobbys & keep it high.
Stitch loved the last tree we had! He would go and sit on all the pressies and try and open them, and try and eat the tree, and the baubles, and everything really.
Aww ;D Maybe once we sort out the living room properly I'll look at rat proofing it properly so they can free range around the room but atm they're restricted to the sofa, a person or my desk
Stan_Lite
28-11-2007, 13:38
Thankfully, I don't have to concern myself with such nonsense. I head out to Egypt on 11th December and don't get back until 11th January.
My USB Christmas tree will make an appearance at work as of next week I reckon!
/humbug mode
no decorations here, not bothered for years :)
My neighbours have had decorations up for a couple of weeks now, only inside the house though. They're always nuts about Christmas :)
We probably won't have a tree up till the middle of December, it's usually when we do. Always get a real tree, they just look nicer imo :D
2nd Saturday of December. Always have, always will :)
/thinks about putting decs up this Saturday
SidewinderINC
28-11-2007, 14:34
Tree up on christmas eve eve. Taken down 12 days after christmas :)
I read somewhere recently that you are supposed to put up decorations 12 days before Christmas and take them down 12 days after.
But thats pants because you don't get as long to appreciate them.
Going to the £1 shop this weekend to get some more deccies for the tree and might get Rob to get it down this weekend :) going to buy the office a twee too - its only a quid. :)
Sick and tired of Christmas already and its not even December yet! ;D
Not sure how I manage to get involved in Christmas party organising..but somehow I always do.
BB x
Not sure how I manage to get involved in Christmas party organising..but somehow I always do.
Haven't been able to afford to go the past couple of years yet its always me sorting it out, collecting deposits, etc - sure there is something wrong with that somewhere :(
Del Lardo
28-11-2007, 14:48
/humbug mode
no decorations here, not bothered for years :)
:wave:
Flibster
28-11-2007, 14:53
/humbug mode
no decorations here, not bothered for years :)
:withstupid:
Will BD be getting some decs?
Kell_ee001
28-11-2007, 15:10
Tbh I really doubt I'll even bother this year. Last year at my Mums we made a minimal effort by just putting up a tree, but that was only for somewhere to put wrapped pressies.
/humbug mode
no decorations here, not bothered for years :)
:)
I do own a tree though. It's been in it's box for the last god knows how many years. I might put it up again eventually. :)
FakeSnake
28-11-2007, 15:48
We shall have 4 at the house this year.
They will probably be put up gradually from this weekend onwards
1st of Dec I put mine up.
Tbh I really doubt I'll even bother this year. Last year at my Mums we made a minimal effort by just putting up a tree, but that was only for somewhere to put wrapped pressies.
Aw :( Don't tell anyone but I er sorta forgot to take mine down. Nothing huge like but I have a glass coke bottle stuffed with coloured lights that I didn't remove. Its great but I haven't turned it on yet. Maybe Dec 1st.
Today I am working on the company newsletter.... through researching for any 'Green/environmental Tips' I came across this website :/
I suggest that you do not purchase any of the used decorations from this site.
http://www.tamponcrafts.com/
BB x
lol ew. I don't wanna know if they use natural colours.
We'll put our tree up whenever my parents collect it from Cannock Chase for us. Carrying on the family tradition of having a beautiful-smelling real tree from the Forestry Commission site there. Should be within the next couple of weeks :) Better get the lights down from the loft and make sure they all work!!! :)
Ahh we get one from the Forestry Commission site near us :D Always lovely :)
Kell_ee001
28-11-2007, 19:11
We once had a real tree but with the dogs it was really impractical :) I'm more than happy to use the same plasticy one every year.
Piggymon
28-11-2007, 19:31
I put my tree up last weekend :o
I bought it all whilst I was up at B&Q and then I wanted to put it up !! .. It was looking at me in it's box all saaaaaad :/
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/piggymon/Christmas%202007/19112007121.jpg
Paul will be here on sat to help. Am so excited! It's our first christmas spent together!
You know its Xmas when the tree goes up. House smells of Xmas. <3
Twee looks lovely Piggy :)
BB x
Will BD be getting some decs?
It already has if you look at the bottom left of the screen you can change the forum style ;)
As for me as I'm alone this Christmas I shan't bother, but I never go OTT anyway I like a very plain/simply decorated tree - actually Sinead's is very tastefully done. As a family we don't tend to bother until a couple of weeks before Christmas day. However Christmas for me isn't until the 6/7th (as it's based on the Julian calendar).
I tend to celebrate Easter more though. :)
Piggymon
28-11-2007, 22:28
Of course it's tastefully done .. it matches the lounge ;D
/takes a better pic.
I wouldn't expect anything less! :D
Piggymon
28-11-2007, 22:39
i only see default style and no sigs/avatars :( Am I being silly?
Nope, Jamie hasn't finished it yet ;)
i only see default style and no sigs/avatars :( Am I being silly?
Ah maybe it's because I'm an admin that I have access to it! :o
It's very pretty though. Very Christmassy - I think you'll approve :D
Piggymon
28-11-2007, 22:43
Better ( ish ! ) pics of the twee !!
Taking a pic of the twee is very hard !
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/piggymon/Christmas%202007/Christmas%20Tree/P1010252.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/piggymon/Christmas%202007/Christmas%20Tree/P1010259.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/piggymon/Christmas%202007/Christmas%20Tree/P1010258.jpg
*gets annoyingly excited* :D :D :D :D *throws tinsel about*
Surely you should be chasing the tinsel if you're a kitten?!
Sinead that is really really nice :)
Blackstar
28-11-2007, 22:50
i <3 that you love christmas too Pete :D
He is trying to make me be christmasy, it isn't working i just can't do it. :(
Piggymon
28-11-2007, 22:50
Thanks guys :)
I had lots of fun erecting it .. fnar ! ;)
Surely you should be chasing the tinsel if you're a kitten?!
/me replaces tinsel with a ball of string. There, that's sure to work. :)
Very nice twee there too.
i <3 that you love christmas too Pete :D
Its soooo magical. The smell, the sights, the sounds, the hot coco the open fire... oh yes :D
He is trying to make me be christmasy, it isn't working i just can't do it. :(
Aw :( I'll have to keep drinking so I can crack out the christmas carols :D Missiletoe and wine, something so fine, its christmas time :D
Blackstar
28-11-2007, 22:56
Its soooo magical. The smell, the sights, the sounds, the hot coco the open fire... oh yes :D
Aw :( I'll have to keep drinking so I can crack out the christmas carols :D Missiletoe and wine, something so fine, its christmas time :D
Do you want me to show them your hat? Do you? No carols. :p
Do you want me to show them your hat? Do you? No carols. :p
I'll be good :p *air guitars slade*
My tree is usually really funny as I let the kids decorate it. I came into the room one year to find them standing 3 feet away from it actually throwing the stuff at it. What stuck stayed! It was loaded down on one side and bare on the other!
My tree is usually really funny as I let the kids decorate it. I came into the room one year to find them standing 3 feet away from it actually throwing the stuff at it. What stuck stayed! It was loaded down on one side and bare on the other!
;D
The family tradition in this house is we all stick the decorations up, my Dad continually reminds me not to put the decorations at the edge of the branch or too low, then 5minutes after finishing my Mum spends the next hour rearranging them so they look 'better' :D
I stick the lights on then leave them to it!
leowyatt
28-11-2007, 23:51
*gets annoyingly excited* :D :D :D :D *throws tinsel about*
Don't fear people she has been sedated :p
Dymetrie
28-11-2007, 23:54
Don't fear people she has been sedated :p
Good to see you're putting that tranq gun to good use :p
You meanie :p Release the cheer! Free the tinseled one :D
leowyatt
28-11-2007, 23:58
Don't worry Pete she'll be going mental at the weekend when the dec boxes come out of the loft :)
:D Like a little puppy when you've got some spare toast :D
Blackstar
29-11-2007, 00:16
:D Like a little puppy when you've got some spare toast :D
It wasn't spare :(
I put my tree up last weekend :o
I bought it all whilst I was up at B&Q and then I wanted to put it up !! .. It was looking at me in it's box all saaaaaad :/
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/piggymon/Christmas%202007/19112007121.jpg
I call shenninigans, you've been on Google images , neither of you could have decorated the top half of that ;D
Stan_Lite
29-11-2007, 01:29
I call shenninigans, you've been on Google images , neither of you could have decorated the top half of that ;D
;D;D;D;D;D
Piggymon
29-11-2007, 08:29
I call shenninigans, you've been on Google images , neither of you could have decorated the top half of that ;D
LOL !! ;D ... It's only 6 ft and I had a stool ;)
Sinead!! I spy a Biggins!! ;D
:evil: eagle eyes !
Snuggle Ferret
29-11-2007, 11:46
Had a twee last year but not sure if bothering this year. We also did the silly chains on a picture and then decorated the christmas burnt tree stump with tinsel and Twinkie (my hippo) :D
its still november!!!!!
:/
Snuggle Ferret
29-11-2007, 12:05
its still november!!!!!
:/
Tell the b*****y shops that !!!!!
its still november!!!!!
:/
Normally I'd agree with you, but this thread has broken me :D *bouncy bouncy* Its nearly Xmas!!!!!
but this thread has broken me :D
Yay :D :D :D
*air pianos white christmas*
Snuggle Ferret
29-11-2007, 12:55
Yay :D :D :D
LOL
Permission to not enjoy Christmas quite as much as everyone else?
LOL
Permission to not enjoy Christmas quite as much as everyone else?
Denied! :p
Snuggle Ferret
29-11-2007, 12:58
Denied! :p
OK .. permission not to enjoy Christmas at 2350? Will try and enjoy the rest of it :P
Wooo! Bargainicious tree, £40 knocked off cos it didn't have a stand!!! We have a stand!
http://www.kaiowas.co.uk/vix/tree.jpg
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/5125/goatsmasak7.jpg
:D
:goatse:
Stan_Lite
08-12-2007, 10:30
A Goatse bauble - how cool :D
If I wasn't such a miserable old git and actually had a tree, I'd have some of them on it.
Just put up tree and got the other decs outta the loft... PIcs of said tree shall follow shortly :D
During the week, I might see if someone will direct me to the christmas tree with mice as baubles. I kid you not. ;D
Computer mice
Our Christmas Tree is up. It smells beautiful and I love it :D
http://www.lostkat.co.uk/house/christmastree2007a.jpg
http://www.lostkat.co.uk/house/christmastree2007b.jpg
I don't *do* themes. I like the randomness and multiple colours on christmas trees. It makes them happy. The only things my tree HAS to have on are lots of fairies/angels and an angel on the top :)
My tree topper star died :(
It was a battery powered light up one, it was meant to got from red to purple to blue back to red but only the red was working so it just looked like it was turned off most of the time :(
goldilocks
10-12-2007, 18:55
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/notsuchagreatidea/Image015.jpg
our tree - plain, simple, a bit like the couple that put it up i suppose
real tree, with roots (living, so we can keep it - i hate the waste of having a 'cut' tree) - with white lights
:D
My tree as decorated by sprogs:
http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/3158/xmastreenx3.jpg
My christmas fairy, the angelic DrX:
http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/3715/drxvf7.jpg
I love your Angel, Dawn. He rocks!!!! Especially the horns :cool:
Our tree is from a Forestry Commission site at Cannock Chase, so I know it's been properly managed and another tree will be planted in its place. Always had our trees from there (the family have). It's tradition innit! :D
I love your Angel, Dawn. He rocks!!!! Especially the horns :cool:
Our tree is from a Forestry Commission site at Cannock Chase, so I know it's been properly managed and another tree will be planted in its place. Always had our trees from there (the family have). It's tradition innit! :D
its lovely too. I didn't realise it was a real one!!!
Ain't no fake christmas tree comin' in my house!
As some of the gilrs have already seen... :)
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f73/TopSexyBetty/Forum%20Stuff/IMG_2332.jpg
And a side table decoration...
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f73/TopSexyBetty/Forum%20Stuff/IMG_2322.jpg
And my xmas teddies...
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f73/TopSexyBetty/Forum%20Stuff/IMG_2326.jpg
And the back doors... with the sodding lights falling down
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f73/TopSexyBetty/Forum%20Stuff/IMG_2327.jpg
And our stair railings
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f73/TopSexyBetty/Forum%20Stuff/IMG_2353.jpg
Dymetrie
10-12-2007, 22:33
*shuns christmas*
Bugger - still haven't got decorating and tree photos off camera :o I'm useless - will try to remember tomorrow evening :o
FakeSnake
10-12-2007, 23:27
1st tree up
http://www.btinternet.com/~lee.jones/images/xmas/DSC0003.jpg
will get some better ones when I get the tripod in from the car!
whoo my flat is still without any christmas decorations \o/
OK - will prob post some better ones of the tree later (just bought a tree topper :) but it isn't a light up one :( )
Mantelpiece ends:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Takhisis_uk/House/Picture014.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Takhisis_uk/House/Picture015.jpg
Digweed:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Takhisis_uk/House/Picture017.jpg
Me playing with baubles:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Takhisis_uk/House/Picture020.jpg
Fairly poor shot but this my USB Christmas tree sitting on an upturned mug at work.
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/3550/dsc00110zh3.jpg
:D
You know its nearly xmas when they come out!!!
Yes...I am talking about...
my xmas earrings *dun dun duuuuuuuuuuun*
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Takhisis_uk/Me/xmas%20earrings/Picture111.jpg
Yesterday I was wearing:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Takhisis_uk/Me/xmas%20earrings/Picture116.jpg
Today I have on:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Takhisis_uk/Me/xmas%20earrings/Picture115.jpg
Which leaves me 6 days of work and 5 pairs of earrings so 1 pair will have to be worn twice (unless I can find some new ones) so feel free to let me know which ones are your faves:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Takhisis_uk/Me/xmas%20earrings/Picture123.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Takhisis_uk/Me/xmas%20earrings/Picture122.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Takhisis_uk/Me/xmas%20earrings/Picture121.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Takhisis_uk/Me/xmas%20earrings/Picture120.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Takhisis_uk/Me/xmas%20earrings/Picture117.jpg
Although I'm loving the mighty beard of Santa, I think purple or red baubles if you have to use them twice... or wear one of each!
SidewinderINC
13-12-2007, 11:29
I vote for the Reinfox! It looks more like a fox than a deer tehe :p
After wearing the baubles yesterday I have gone for the big beard santas today - I had forgotten the baubles are bloody heavy and I had sore ears by the end of the day so went for floaty light ones today :)
Richard Slater
16-12-2007, 20:02
Finished ours:
http://www.imarriedyou.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/compositechristmastree.thumbnail.jpg (http://www.imarriedyou.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/compositechristmastree.jpg)
Everyines trees looking fab :) Tak think your tree looks lovely and I like the purple bauble earrings are my faves, As for my tree the webcam doesn't pick up the blue of my blue baubles :( (blue and baubles in the same sentence... there has got to be some sort of innuendo in there :) )
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/Muban/Forums/Picture74a.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/Muban/Forums/Picture72.jpg
Bell bow thingy earrings today - I think I'm going to drive myself insane with the dingling http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Takhisis_uk/Smilies/insane.gif
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