Saturday, December 9, 2017

Home for the Holidays: Christmas Tour


Hello, friend! Are you feeling the Yule Cheer? I must say that I am and it is nice. 


Creepy elves are perched in wait and stockings are hung from the counter with care.



The girls and I have been enjoying the advent calendar activities and treats every morning. So far we have strolled about our church's community light event, picked out and decorated our tree, read Dinosaur's Night Before Christmas, and received new hairbows. 



I am really excited about the tree this year and cannot stop pausing to linger by it and take in the ornaments. We have all our old favorites but I also inherited some Santa's from around the world glass ones from my great aunt who passed away. I love them. I have Santas from Norway, Mexico, Ireland, India, Africa, Germany, France and more. 


All I am missing are the couple gnomes I picked up online from The Little Green Bean which should be coming soon. Once they arrive I will put them on my bookshelf and take a picture. 

Netflix Fireplace is my jam. I cannot stop watching them. So cozy. All I need is a robe and a corncob pipe. What are your favorite types of ornaments? Do you do stockings? Advent calendars?

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  1. Your decorations look amazing! <3 Merry Christmas! I'm not decorating this year because of some things (will message),but I'm vicariously enjoying yours and others', and already planning for next year!

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    1. Merry Christmas, Nancy! Thank you! Oh no, I hope things are ok. Do please let me know. Hoping you and yours are healthy and hale. <3

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  2. Oooh oooh ooooooh! I want to see the German Santa! And the Norwegian one!

    My ornament tastes change from year to year. Sometimes I just want simple, shiny, glass balls. Sometimes I want all the old-time looking things. Sometimes I just love the mish-mash of different ones we've accumulated over the years. This year we have the mish-mash style going.

    We don't do advent calendars but do have stockings. It's sort of a fail every year though because the menfolk don't buy little things to stick in them and also tend to overlook the stockings in general even though *I* DO buy little goodies to fill them up. I've started buying my own stocking stuffers so I at least know something will be in mine, and I guilt-trip the menfolk about forgetting. *evil holiday giggle*

    ~Deb

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    1. I will have to search out the German one. I can see where I put the Nordic Santa and will take a pic of him for you tomorrow night. <3

      I am an equal opportunity ornament lover. I love them all! Shiny, felt, crocheted, vintage, wooden, geeky, woodland, sparkly, whatever. So mish mash it is!

      You should definitely give your men folk hassle over not filling your stocking. Shame on them. I will send you some goodies to put in it this year. :-)I will wrap them and call them stocking fillers.

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    2. Hubby and I were talking about the stockings yesterday and agreed to ditch that effort. It was not something we'd done all along, like since the boys were tiny. It was something we'd only started doing in more recent years and since no one has really taken to it, we'll give up on it. Oh well. *sigh*

      ~Deb

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  3. Your tree looks beautiful! I thoroughly approve of the coloured lights - Team Coloured Lights over here. He's a very plump tree, too. Mine is artificial, and it's a gigantic beast. Every year I assess the dustpans full of needles I pick up and conclude that this is definitely going to be its last year, but somehow I keep it going - I'm loathe to get rid of the guy, because the new crop of artificial trees are all uber fake-looking and too scrawny. Mine's got HEFT, just the way I like it (except when I'm lugging it up from the storage locker, leaving a trail of plastic pine needles behind me as I go.)

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    1. Thank you! I saw someone post on Facebook that colored lights were the Crocs of Christmas and died. I never considered myself a Crocs gal (sweaty feet! EW!) but I do love my colored lights. And about a dozen strands so that the tree practically desiccates under the intense glow of incandescent mini bulbs (LED?! nah, not yet). Your poor tree! He is hanging in there. So artificial trees loose needles too? I had no idea! And yeah, it would be hard to get rid of him if he is so fat and jolly. I have noticed the new trees are pretty puny. :-(

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    2. Butting in about the new artificial trees. Have you seen the ones that are really tall and narrow? More like an evergreen post? lol My brother and sister-in-law have one of those, and while it was fun to see theirs because it's unique, I don't think I could ever get into having that type.

      ~Deb

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    3. My artificial tree sheds more than my cat. I truly can't believe it has any fullness to it at all given the dustpans full of needles I sweep up every year. I swear it's regenerating somehow?

      Skinny trees make me sad. Too Charlie Brown.

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