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Still fiddling with baubles!

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keepcalmandcavachon Tue 19-Dec-23 10:51:33

Is anyone else still fiddling and jiggling their baubles about?
I'm adding my last sparkly bits, will be out in the garden looking for any berries lurking around and have a few of those £1 battery light sets to go (if I can ever open them grin

Merry Christmas fellow faffers!

keepcalmandcavachon Wed 20-Dec-23 10:23:50

I thought I might get the boxes of decorations down today and start thinking about it.
JackyB

Love your laid back style!

Feeling so festive looking at the lovely photos every onesmile

Gwyllt Wed 20-Dec-23 11:49:29

Still berries on the holly this year not all eaten by the birds
Should go and collect some.

Namsnanny Wed 20-Dec-23 13:13:29

Are you in the South Gwyllt?
It hasnt been that cold has it, so could that be why?

kittylester Wed 20-Dec-23 13:17:18

I said elsewhere that we weren't having a tree.

That was before 5 year old wolfie came round and asked where our tree was. That saw his doting grandparents hurtling off to JL to buy a 7ft prelit one (half price!!!) and a new skirt (also half price)

I hope he appreciates it.

Jaxjacky Wed 20-Dec-23 13:59:35

No more fiddling here, just watering!

AreWeThereYet Wed 20-Dec-23 14:09:46

Rubysong If they are plaster have you tried polyfilla? Brush the cut edges to get rid of any dust and put a thin layer of polyfilla (not the silicon one) between the edges then hold/fasten in place while the polyfilla dries. That's what I would try. You can get it premixed in a tub.

swampy1961 Wed 20-Dec-23 14:28:17

No fiddling here!! Eldest GD always does our tree with help from her younger cousins. Always looks lovely.
The only bit that I will ever fiddle with is the one tree decoration I buy each year from the garden centre where we traditionally take some of the GCs to see the big man. This year it is a fluffy santa sat in a snowball!! Love our motley collection of tree decorations. All the grandchildren have a tree decoration of some type with their name on. There's even one for the cat!!

Gwyllt Wed 20-Dec-23 14:35:47

Namsnanny
No we are not wets wales
Overlooking Bae Ceredigion
During the 60s apparently our land used to boast the first new potatoes on Pen Llyn

Gwyllt Wed 20-Dec-23 17:15:25

That should have been North West Wales

wetflannel Wed 20-Dec-23 17:21:49

I am a terrible fiddler with our Christmas tree, I am constantly deciding a certain bauble should be on a different part of the tree. Wish I could break this awful habit of everything having to be symmetrical, I drive myself bonkers.

LauraNorderr Wed 20-Dec-23 18:02:25

Lovely trees Jax and Kitty. I know I’ve admired that wall colour in the past Kitty. Still love it.

LauraNorderr Wed 20-Dec-23 18:03:56

Gorgeous Rafichagran, pretty and bright

RosiesMaw Wed 20-Dec-23 18:06:14

What does Baubles have to say about it? blushblush

keepcalmandcavachon Wed 20-Dec-23 18:34:46

RosiesMaw
What does Baubles have to say about it?blushblush

He tries to resist but he has no ELF controlgrin

grandMattie Wed 20-Dec-23 18:44:22

I’ve never been keen on decorating, and now I’m on my own, decorations remind me too much of my late DH who would decorate the house in November if given the chance.

RosiesMaw Wed 20-Dec-23 18:53:06

Surely Baubles is a woman?

LauraNorderr Wed 20-Dec-23 20:06:28

Surely Baubles can choose any pronoun to suit

Jess20 Fri 22-Dec-23 11:12:52

I'm not but other half is in the workshop fiddling with broken Christmas lights and the cutlery basket from the dishwasher. Chores lined up all year are getting done now, probably to avoid having to go shopping...

Fiala Fri 22-Dec-23 11:18:31

Ours fell over about 30 mins ago. It looked a bit droopy this morning so I poured water in. Next thing it was in the floor. Just what I neededangry

Shill29 Fri 22-Dec-23 11:22:23

Yes, still jiggling!

Tamayra Fri 22-Dec-23 11:41:22

Superglue

Nannan2 Fri 22-Dec-23 12:09:44

Left banisters for last-been putting it off😐But must do today as visitors tomorrow🤗

kittylester Fri 22-Dec-23 12:21:22

Stop fiddling without baubles and start panicking!!!!

sunbar Fri 22-Dec-23 12:26:37

Years ago, we had the tree in a spot where I could see it all the time when I'm sitting in the living room. This resulted in me constantly moving ornaments around for balance and symmetry. It was good exercise getting up and down a couple of times a day but I had to move the Christmas tree to a different part of the living room. Out of sight out of mind.

Mouse Fri 22-Dec-23 13:22:33

I don’t have a tree. I have the two naughtiest cats I’ve ever shared a home with. I got fed up of picking the tree up and redecorating it every morning. Instead I have this