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Have you begun your Christmas Decorations yet ?

(113 Posts)
Frenchgalinspain Mon 04-Dec-23 16:54:25

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

(Photo below) ..

Callistemon21 Wed 13-Dec-23 18:46:47

😁 so far so good!

Frenchgalinspain Wed 13-Dec-23 16:41:24

Callistemon21

Lovely Frenchgalinspain 🎄
Not yet, the DD and DGC will do the honours this year, we hope!

Ps the dog looks very cosy on his cushion 🙂

Edmond the French Bull is my younger twin daughter´s canine. Yes, he is truly a Gentleman with exceptional manners.

And my older twin daughter brought Pierre, the year old Dalmation .. And we have 2 Birman kit kats !

All going extraordinarily well ..

Frenchgalinspain Wed 13-Dec-23 16:31:52

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Frenchgalinspain Wed 13-Dec-23 16:28:25

ginny

Oh, more pictures please.
Ours went up today.
Ridiculously pleased with my new little Christmas village.

How lovely Ginny.

Happy pre-holidays wishes.

Frenchgalinspain Wed 13-Dec-23 16:27:15

Louella12

That looks just gorgeous 😍

Ours are up. Makes everywhere look so pretty.

Thank you and all our best wishes from Edmond too, my younger twin daughter´s French Bull ..

Truly a total Gentleman !!! They are visiting !!

pen50 Mon 11-Dec-23 22:05:58

We have bought a (pot grown) Christmas tree but it will stay in the garden until next Monday.

pen50 Mon 11-Dec-23 22:04:49

Ours don't go up earlier than the 18th, down before Twelfth Night. But it's lovely to look at other people's.

Oreo Mon 11-Dec-23 19:15:02

At last, got all the Christmassy bits up and the house looks festive and cosy.We don’t put anything outside as it would get nicked in about five seconds.

AreWeThereYet Mon 11-Dec-23 18:56:03

Put the lights up out the front - just lots of twinkling starry lights through the hedge and trees. It's quite mesmerizing watching them fading in and out. Like a starry, starry night right outside the window.

We noticed this morning that a reindeer that is up on someone's roof had lost his head in the recent winds. Quite sad, I should imagine it was a bit of work getting it up there.

ginny Mon 11-Dec-23 18:51:29

Oh, more pictures please.
Ours went up today.
Ridiculously pleased with my new little Christmas village.

Norah Mon 11-Dec-23 18:38:50

Apparently my husband wanted a gorgeous stag, doe and fawn, covered in white lights. They were delivered to the garden today and set up. Very lovely - look as if they belong right here, sparkling!

Aldom Sun 10-Dec-23 22:34:42

Ikiesgranma thinking of you and wishing you a gentle Christmas Christmas making happy, lasting memories for your loved ones. flowers

rafichagran Sun 10-Dec-23 20:40:17

Lovely tree Wizend. I am getting mine tommorow.

Witzend Sun 10-Dec-23 20:36:58

Gdcs put the decorations and lametta on our tree on Friday.

Marmight Sun 10-Dec-23 11:40:50

Nope. I don’t usually put them up until just before Christmas & as I’ve just been in hospital, I can’t get the enthusiasm this year. All the Christmas decs are in the attic and may well stay there. I have to go for an op after Christmas and can’t bear the thought of coming home in February to find all the decs still up 🤣. I have a poinsettia and a mini Norwegian Santa on the dining table, that’ll have to do…..

Norah Sun 10-Dec-23 11:28:53

All week our eldest granddaughter continued decorating our playroom - she's been 'making your playroom Christmassy' -- she's her own family reasons, we can and do oblige whatever is asked of us. (If not for her I'd rather we wait another week, this is way too early for me)

Ikiesgranma Sat 09-Dec-23 15:39:39

We’ve put the decorations up in the living room and hall but we’re away this weekend so we’ll do the garden when we get home. Two Christmas trees outside and and a polar bear, reindeer, snowman and a dog. Unfortunately this may be my last Christmas according to my oncologist so I want the decorations to be memorable for my grandchildren.

Grantanow Sat 09-Dec-23 15:30:54

Just hung a wreath on the front door.

HeavenLeigh Sat 09-Dec-23 14:32:37

Nope up on 22nd down on the 29th

RosiesMaw Sat 09-Dec-23 14:17:20

JustkeepswimmingDonna

Has anyone got a solution for bird seed table swimming in rain water?

Part of your Christmas decorations?
Unusual!

GrannyGrunter Sat 09-Dec-23 13:42:21

Absolutely beautiful. My husband died over 9 years ago and since then I have not trimmed up the house or put up a tree because I go to one son on Christmas day one year and our other son the year after. They don't come to my house so there is no point in putting up a tree etc. Our home used to be like Fairyland from the day we married until my husband died (50 plus years together) and I no longer have the heart or the inclination to even want to think about Christmas.

I hope you have a fantastic Christmas and a wonderful and healthy new year.

yogitree Sat 09-Dec-23 09:57:33

Just a tree in our house, which my daughter, granddaughter and grandson decorated on Thursday.

MiniMoon Sat 09-Dec-23 09:51:37

The tree is up in our living room, the outside lights were hung yesterday by DH. I've still got the hall and dining room to decorate, but we are halfway there.

JustkeepswimmingDonna Sat 09-Dec-23 09:28:06

Has anyone got a solution for bird seed table swimming in rain water?

Musicgirl Sat 09-Dec-23 08:51:35

Even if the original thread was made up - and l agree that the fireplace picture looks as if it is from a magazine as it is too "perfect" for the average home - it is still a nice, chatty thread.