Christmas decorations!

Anonymous

Let's see your house!!!!!

We do the stairwell ...

We do the entryway

the dining room table

 And of course, our tree in the family room ..

abinneb

Very pretty!   And your daughter is the spitting image of you as a girl!! - Wow!!   Your family room tree looks like it is full of wonderful memories!

Amy

Anonymous

Thanks, Amy!  The family room has pics of our family all framed and mounted the same, the Navajo blankets were a gift from a trip my grandparents made, the mirror was hanging in my parents house when I was growing up, there's an old school desk from my parents house and even a clown pic from there, too.  My house is full of things that bring me comfort.  I LOVE going home and closing the front door to the world and relaxing ...

Anyone else have a pic of their tree?

Anonymous

You're house is LOVELY!  I used to decorate.  That's when the whole family got together for Christmas.  Now we go to our dd's in Charlotte...I don't do decorations. 

I'm laughing.  I was going to take a pic of my tree and post it for you...but the pic was the tree in it's box!  I'm gonna sell the thing! 

I'll take that lovely dd of yours.    Better watch her..she's gonna go to Hollywood! 

Anonymous

Rocktobermom: You got me (finally) interested in pulling out the ol' boxes and getting started. Your daughter looks like she got both looks AND personality from somewhere (wonder?, huh mom!) Fabulous decorations and inspiration. You may yet see a pic from me! We usually go out on our property somewhere (6 acres) and thin out a tree that needs it. We end up with a Charlie Brown tree but I love it! PLUS, it's snowing here today!

Isabella4

Rocktobermum. Your house looks so lovely, I just haven't got the energy to do this nowadays.

When my kids were growing up DD and I used to blather every room in greenery...this was the days before you could buy ready made garlands !

This year it will be 27 various sized Christmas trees, small ornamental ones. I didn't 'do' Christmas for 2 years after my dx., and as soon as I felt I could get around to having the family all here I just started to collect these trees. Some are green, some are pink, some are white, some are beaded, some are made from cones, some just plain metal. They range from about 6" to 18", and in about an hour flat I can plonk them all over my sitting and dining room, and it looks instantly Christmassy. I group them in windowsills, and on tables and chests of drawers. I then nail up a big greenery garland over my fireplaces in kitchen, sitting room and dining room, and there you have it, instant Christmas. I put them up Christmas Eve, and within 2 or 3 days I am sick of them, and they'll be down !! I only have visitors Christmas Day, so no point in them hanging around.

DD was here yesterday, and berating me for not having started on my decorations, she's had her tree up now 3 or 4 days. I'm saving up my energy to decorate my cake. DIL started a small cake decorating business up in her village, and her cakes were truly awful I used to be very good at decorating years ago, but kept quiet about it. This year I want to show her what a good job I can do !!! ....I hope to amaze even myself !!!!

Isabella.

Anonymous

Isabella, I hope you amaze yourself too.  You've made me laugh. 

Anonymous

Where is everyone elses?  I talked to LauraGTO today on the telephone, she is supposed to show and tell!

Isabella, you need to show us your cakes!

iodine

I used to decorage every inch!  Trees in each bed room and in the front and back of the house. Dh did hundreds of lights and Santa and the Nativity.  (should have seen the electric bill)  After dx, I didn't have much energy either.  that first Christmas, had ONE ornament on the tree---a girlfriend one from a good friend. 

My kids come home closer and closer to Christmas and this year, will arrive for Christmas Day and stay a few days.  I just don't do much now.  Have a new furbaby and won't decorate the tree except for lights.  He's jus too curious! 

I gathered a huge load of decorations, collected at craft fairs and on vacations over the years, and gave it a thrift store.  Now, I'm not even unloading a lot of the things I have left.  Stockings, the tree, nativity, and a choo-choo train.  A couple of other things and we're done except for the wrapping---------------and I make all my bows, LOL.  At least I continue to wrap and decorate packages. 

Ya'll have a blast and I'm dying to see all the pics-I dont' even know how to download them yet.

Anonymous

Wow - Kelly - the pics are awesome! I can't believe how much taller Teryn has gotten since I saw her in Vegas... just 7 months ago. Your decor is so pretty... nice talking to you yesterday... I will post pics soon! Love ya!

rockwell_girl

since I just had surgery Dec11 (lift and small implant and new implant on cancer side) I chose to only put my tree up because I know I will be the one putting everything away

thanks for sharing the pretty pix

Anonymous

Well, God decorated for me last night! This is the view from my kitchen window this morning!

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abinneb

Oh that is beautiful!  It looks like one of those old handpainted photos!

Anonymous

Wow burns ... that is a beautiful view... !

Anonymous

Well, I finally got our tree up. My cat, Bella, likes it; PS: don't notice there are no presents yet!

Anonymous

burns - Your tree is awesome! I just saw an article that showed your type of tree and they said it was a feather tree... have you heard of that?

My computer crashed... am back up and running will post some pics this evening...

Anonymous

Burnsie, I am back from vacation, can't see the photos from work but will check out your photos as soon as I get home.

Laura, can't wait to see your photos.  My heart is with you at this time, love ya girlie.

Anonymous

Kel...thanks...I appreciate it.

Well here they are:

Dining Room

Sitting Room

Family Room

This morning's snowfall

Anonymous

LauraGTO: Wow! How many trees to you have? Makes my one Charlie Brown tree look sort of lonely! I don't know what kind of tree it is - we have 7 acres and go out each season and "thin" out one of the trees that needs it. It is usually not the best shaped tree, but we love cutting it down ourselves! Your decorations look fabulous! We got snow this morning again, too! Here is a picture of my son Joseph and his new fiance, Michelle. They helped decorate the tree this year. And here is a picture of my kitchen decorations for Christmas!
Dx 12/31/2003, IDC, 1cm, Stage I, Grade 1, 0/18 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2-

Anonymous

Hey Burns...your tree is great... I love the fact that you cut down your own tree! I would love to do the same, but conifers/evergreens aren't native on my property - we have Oaks, Hickories, etc. We have six acres - so I spend alot of time in our forest - especially in Fall - cutting down dead trees for firewood. I LOVE the luminarias .... what a great idea... are the round ones graters too? Congrats...you're going to be a MIL...

Anonymous

Laura and Burnsie, I love your decorations!!

Laura, are those real trees or fake?  I have a fake one -- I miss the smell but I don't miss paying $100 for a tree every year and I don't have a forest with trees that need thinning!!  For me, it helps me save a tree.  My mom gets a real one since she has trees or a neighbor has trees that need thinning --- they get together and decide which ones need to come down. 

Anonymous

Hi Kel! Merry, Merry! My trees are fake too... I also love real ones... but it would cost me a fortune too! I keep them decorated (lights included) and dh just carries them up from the basement each year... this way I don't have to re-decorate each one every year.

Harley44

All the Christmas decorations are beautiful!

Two years ago, when my dh and I moved to NC, we got rid of MOST of our Christmas decorations!  I have been so sad that I got rid of so many memories.  Since moving here, we get at least one new decoration each year, sometimes more.  We are starting NEW traditions, too, so I am finally starting to feel like I'm accumulating some more nice decorations and memories.  Last year, a friend send me a breast cancer ribbon Christmas ornament.  This year, I found a very special place on the tree to display it, where it really shimmers with the lights.  I guess I'm really starting to look at all of the new decorations, and thinking of all the new memories that we are making.

Wishing all ya'll a very Happy & Healthy New Year!

Harley 

Anonymous

Harley - after one of my friends got married for their first Christmas they had a party and asked everyone to bring one ornament. Now, every year they have memories of everyone close to them. The older we get - traditions become more special.

Harley44

Laura,

Thanks!  That is a nice way to start your friend's collection of Christmas decorations! 

Some of us don't like to be reminded about the bc.  When I see the bc ornament on the tree, I am reminded of what I went through last year, and it just makes me realize that I have alot to be grateful for, at Christmas and always.

Happy New Year!!

Harley 

Anonymous

I agree... being reminded of what we went through really does make us so grateful. This x-mas, my mom gave me a silver pen with a pink ribbon on it. I will keep it with my check book in my wallet... not only will I be grateful, but I'll think of my mom too!

Anonymous

Laura, looks like you had the festival of trees at your house.  They were beautiful.

Burns, I found a picture of one of our trees from YEARS ago and it was a Charlie Brown Tree.  Poor thing.  We now have an artificial tree in the box..LOL  We went out of town for Christmas..I didn't decorate.  I used to enjoy it when we had the HUGHESES over for Christmas dinner.  Aw, the memories.

Harley, making new memories is GOOD!  I think our new memories for the Holidays will be with my dear grandbabies.  After all, isn't that was Christmas is about....(the secular part)?  But I sure am glad to be home!

Shirley

rockwell_girl

Laura I love your trees

Last night I took my tree down which is a huge job.  We only have a 1100sq ft house so have to squeeze all our christmas decorations under the basement steps closet, plus many other things in there also.

Harley44

I thought looking at the bc ribbon on the tree would make me sad, but instead, it just reminds me that of how much I've been through, and how God helped me through the difficult time, of bc dx and tx. 

Shirley,

Yes, you are SO right!  It is fun to make new memories, and new friends, too!  I am so glad that I met you!  You are so nice! 

Hugs

Harley

Anonymous

Thanks...

Just one more x-mas decoration pic (ya can't forget the mailbox!):

Anonymous

 What a great idea!