Have you begun your Christmas Decorations yet ?

Gundy

Do you think this original post is a fraud/scam? There is no Louella on here. I’ve reread their two posts and they seem inauthentic. I’ve seen many pictures in American magazines that look like that fireplace. Wondering.

I think I’m going to be more careful in responding in the future.

See upthread - but if you are right it isn’t the first time and it won’t be the last !

Louella12

That looks just gorgeous 😍

Ours are up. Makes everywhere look so pretty.

Yes there was!

Yeah the December birthday thing has lodged in my brain. Nothing until after the 16th.

Do you think this original post is a fraud/scam? There is no Louella on here. I’ve reread their two posts and they seem inauthentic. I’ve seen many pictures in American magazines that look like that fireplace. Wondering.

I think I’m going to be more careful in responding in the future.

I like to decorate my garden with baubles and tinsel on trees and shrubs , but it takes so long .
I vowed to start on 1st December , but I have the coughing bug and began yesterday .
It will look pretty -eventually !

For the last few years I’ve put our decorations up in the first week of December as I think of Christmas as a Festival of Light in this dark month, and I leave our lights on into the first week of January.

No I’m finding it difficult this year I’ve been so busy finding a care home for mum, now that's sorted my DGD are busy every day right up until they finish school in two weeks time ! I can’t put it up without them though so goodness knows.

Just arrived to spend Christmas in Aus with DD and grandkids. Couldn't be happier. All her decs are up and everything organised. So wonderful to be here with them. I'm the designated 'elf organiser' after bedtime

Frenchgal, your fireplace is truly beautiful, so cozy
We are putting our tree up tomorrow when the girls arrive (then I'll rearrange it all after they've gone home) 😉

jealous not jealolus, though I probably AM that as well !

I am jealolus of people who have a fireplace, as mantelpiece decorations look so lovely.

Frenchgalinspain

We have started our main livingroom .. which includes our fireplace.

(Photo below) ..

Ooh it looks so lovely FrenchGal, I want to cosy up in front of your fire with a good book.Not sure if your house is old but older houses seem to lend themselves to Christmas don't they ?

My DH is really good about doing decorations. Starting on the 1st I would come home to find a few more things up. He does the lights outside after Remembrance Day, but we don't turn them on until the 1st.

We will get a tree this weekend. Everything will come down earlier than normal this year because we are going to our DD's on the 28th.

have taken them out of the cupboard ready to do in the next few days as have the grandchildren next weekend.Not bothering with a tree but have a light up village and and little village with a train going round it.My ever faithful arch gave up the ghost after 15 years.

Nope! I’m hoping to bribe someone (with roast beef and a Yorkshire pudding) on Sunday to go up into the loft and find the tree and other gubbins! I shall then take my time about putting them up……. Might be ready by Christmas Eve!!

I only just moved in to my bungalow a few months ago so I wanted everything done before I put mine up. So my 4yr grandson is sleeping tomorrow we are going to put them up then did put some Santa cling ons and few other things youngest GD last Sunday when she was here and I promised GS we would do tree this weekend I know he’s gone to school telling his teacher he’s helping me now he’s 4 he’s big lol and as I lived over 300 miles away since he was born it’s a big deal to him and me lol

Louella,

Thank you for your lovely compliment.

Have a lovely weekend.

Going up tomorrow! Something to do on a long Saturday on my own.

There will be none this year. If I intended to put any ip it wouldbe a couple of days before Christmas which is on 25th not in November, early or middle December.

Scrabbling around to get as much done as possible - cataract procedure imminent!

Happy birthday, Bessieb. I know exactly what you mean as it was my birthday on Wednesday. I don’t open Christmas cards until my birthday cards have been up for a week so they are stored on a shelf until next week. We are at the stage of getting out the decorations but are nowhere near ready. We moved house in the summer and can’t find quite a few of them. Our autistic son loves putting up and decorating Christmas trees so he is coming to stay for a couple of days next week in order to do it for us.

Only cards going up due to us making our annual trip to Lanzarote for Christmas, home on 28th. My chronic spinal pain & sciatica in my left leg feel so much better in the heat/sunshine..

No. I'm more a winter solstice person - lots of candles on the 21st :-)

Yes mines up looks very festive!

I started putting up mine 7 December. Certainly puts you in a festive mood. All my lights are battery or solar operated, except for one which I will be putting up tonight. 😂 😂 Tough on energy this year but for one month, why not?