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Across the Fence:  have you started your christmas decorating?  |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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 Posted - Nov 25 2006 : 6:40:25 PM
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lordy! i just dumped the last of the PUMPKINS in the patch today .. with so much going on this month in preparation for our big trip coming up .. i'll be lucky to get some greenery up! will just use our five foot feather tree rather than a real one this year me-thinks!
how 'bout ya'll? xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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vintagechica
True Blue Farmgirl
438 Posts
Eren
Poolville
TX
USA
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Posted - Nov 25 2006 : 6:45:49 PM
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Yes, I started a little bit this evening. Got the table set with some lovely vintage linens I received in a swap. And we'll get the live balled tree up in a week or so. Cant wait to get my Christmas dishes out and start using them!
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A sure way to avoid housework...live outdoors.
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JudyBlueEyes
True Blue Farmgirl
657 Posts
Judith
Spokane
Washington
USA
657 Posts |
Posted - Nov 25 2006 : 6:49:09 PM
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Well, I haven't really started yet, but I'm keeping it small this year. I am going home to San Diego for Christmas, from Spokane, so I will just decorate the mantle. I hang a lighted evergreen garland (faux)across the mantle and hang my ornaments on that. I will put a smaller evergreen swag over the mirror over the mantle and hang a few more. The 4 creches will go on the mantle, along with whatever else looks right. Maybe a large snow globe on the coffee table that plays "I'll be Home For Christmas" and then a wreath (faux) hung over the TV. Also a faux wreath on the door. I spent bux last year on two live wreaths and I never got any scent off of them, so I decided to just go with the reusable faux ones this year - and next year - and next - and... I will also put my lighted wreaths on the outside windows in the front and call it good.
And Frannie, I've missed it - where are you going on a "big trip?" You just got back from a month away! LOL
The Rooster crows, but the Hen lays the egg. ~ Texas Proverb |
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
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Posted - Nov 25 2006 : 6:56:25 PM
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Already done! But we minimized this year! I put up the tree yesterday and got it all decorated. Put candles in the windows, decorated the top of the TV stand (we don't have a fireplace so this is our 'mantle'), and placed a few decorations around. Other than the wreaths on the doors I am not doing any outside decorations. I have always put lights on the house and on the two trees outside but last year our dog would unplug them EVERY TIME I turned them on! Seriously within 5 minutes they were unplugged! Every time! I got tired of it and I aint fighting that battle this year! I guess they interupted her sleep! I wish you all could experiance the personality of our three english mastiffs! They are so crazy!
Also since moving to Arkansas we bought a fake tree. I grew up in the north with a short needle tree and you can only get long needles in the south and I just don't like them. So I broke down and went for the fake tree. I do miss the real ones though.
Jewelry, art, baskets, etc.
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Nov 25 2006 : 6:59:39 PM
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Husband got the house lights up today and we got the autumn decor down.....Mona enjoyed the last two pumpkins..her favorite treat..that were on the front porch..we had quite a few this year. We plan to get out the Christmas barrels..there are lots...tomorrow or Monday. We won't get our tree until next Saturday...a fresh one. It just seemed too early today. We have quite alot of Christmas stuff. I try to keep the living room more country old fashioned and the family room gets the kid stuff and santa stuff and like that. I want to put a smallish tree in the kitchen this year...we will see. I like a simple evergreen wreath on the front door and a fake one on the kitchen door (gets more traffic and kid bumping) I can hardly wait to see all the stuff.
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Nov 25 2006 : 7:36:44 PM
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judy darlin' .. honey hunk is going to take me on an 'african safari' .. we're going to kenya and tanzania for three weeks .. with a WONDERFUL organization called: TRAVEL LEARN .. we went to Greece with them and they were fabulous! their trips are all about 'education' .. you don't just sight-see .. you LEARN about the life and culture of the countries they take you to. hank went to africa when we first met many moons ago .. wandered around .. even TYING HIMSELF IN TREES on a couple occasions! had the MOST FABULOUS slides he took .. but when we moved to colorado years ago .. the movers lost them! luckily, he did have a big 'showing' of them to lots of friends before they got lost though. told him that i was NOT going to 'rough it' .. that i wanted to sit upon a 'pink princess pillow' and be fed grapes and bon-bons and look at the animals from a safe distance! Travel Learn will get us up close .. but safely i'm sure! after Africa .. on our way home .. we are stopping in Amsterdam for a week .. Hank wants to show me the home where Anne Frank and her family hid out during the holocaust.
AND ... in April .. he is conjuring up a trip with our 'son-in-love' to visit Eastern Europe. This is a trip that i could not do .. it is somewhat of a 'mecca' for hank .. they will be visiting 'death camps' of the holocaust. Frank is very interested in history as is Hank. Hank lost family in those camps and he just wants to visit them to honor his ancestors.
While they are on this sojourn .. i am taking daughter Wednesday to D.C. so show off her children. My family has not seen Lucas since he was a baby (he is now five years old) .. and of course, they have yet to see baby Sofia Catherine. I'm really excited about this as i have not been back to the D.C. area for a year now.
It has always been a big plan of Hank's to do a lot of travelling when he retired. Some trips i will surely go on with him .. other's will be his 'macho' trips and I will gladly stay home 'on the farm'.
I also plan on visiting Ohio at least every six weeks for a few days! I want to do more travelling here in the United States. Have already been to many states in the Union .. but would like to do some 'leisurely' trips .. where i don't have limited time because i have to 'get back to work'.
xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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Beemoosie
True Blue Farmgirl
2077 Posts
Bonnie
New York
USA
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Posted - Nov 26 2006 : 04:47:48 AM
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How Blessed you are, Frannie! I hope you are taking lots of pictures to show us!
We started decorating yesterday. DH put up the outdoor lights and the tree. We do have a fake tree because of allergies. Then DH had to make a store run to buy WORKING lights for the tree! While he was gone daughter and I spread out the branches and put some decorations around the house. I take down quite a few of my normal knick knacks and replace them with Christmas decorations. DH got home and put the new lights on the tree, but by this point both of the kids were gone, so we will decorate the tree after church!
I have to say decorating yesterday got me into more of the Christmas mood!
...she is far more precious than jewels and her value is far above rubies or pearls.
Prov 31:10
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Horseyrider
True Blue Farmgirl
1045 Posts
Mary Ann
Illinois
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Posted - Nov 26 2006 : 06:20:52 AM
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The most I was willing to do in the temperate weather yesterday was to put together a very small tree for my familyroom. It's covered in felt ornaments, little fuzzy sheep, old fashioned Christmas card designs, tiny little felt socks, and yards of paper chains my grandsons made for me. It sits up on a counter where the dog's tail won't find it.
I won't put up the big tree or the mantle decorations until the weather turns. It's too nice to spend the time in the house!
Frannie, it sounds like you're going on the adventure of a lifetime! I'm so glad for you to get to go, and that you're both okay with you staying home for some of the trips that just aren't your thing. I look forward to the pics and stories! |
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MsCwick
True Blue Farmgirl
775 Posts
Cristine
Farmville
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Nov 26 2006 : 08:44:04 AM
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| I found a fake tree in the attic lastnight, so I put it together, and it's excalt what the box said, a $20 dollar general tree! It's so empty that I put it on our front porch, and I'm going to just put lights on it and a few balls. My husband thinks I'm a nut. If we had our barn built, I would put it in there. I went shopping yesterday and wrapped all the gifts lastnight. I want to experiment with evergreen wreaths, but I'm not sure where to start. |
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
2045 Posts
Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Nov 26 2006 : 10:10:13 AM
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I usually start the week before Christmas, then leave everything up through the 12 days of Christmas (Twelfth Night, January 6th, Epiphany) and take everything down on the 7th of January. People think I am strange, but it is just the way I do it. For me it ties my Christmas traditions more to the religious holiday than the commercial shopping extravaganza that starts with Black Friday.
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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junebug
True Blue Farmgirl
2421 Posts
Sue
West Plains,
Mo.
USA
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
4813 Posts |
Posted - Nov 26 2006 : 12:20:22 PM
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Cristine - My fake tree was WAY MORE that 20 dollars and looks so real people often as if it is! I can just imagine what a 20 dollar tree from the dollar store would look! LOL!
Jewelry, art, baskets, etc.
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asnedecor
True Blue Farmgirl
1054 Posts
Anne
Portland
Or
USA
1054 Posts |
Posted - Nov 26 2006 : 12:39:31 PM
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No decorating yet - probably will start next weekend. Did purchase a wreath from co-worker as a fund raiser for her preschooler's school. Will get that by the 4th. Have to dig out the faux garlands - these were the best buy I have ever made. Look very real - have pine cones and various evergreen branches and were completed wired with lights. 9' long and only $20 each. With ribbon and decorations, they look very real. Doing a garden/woodland themed tree this year. Finally have enough ornaments to do this tree - first year for this theme. Also bought wired ribbon with red cardinals on them to carry the garden theme further on the wreath, etc. Also got a package of mixed shatter proof ornaments (won't have to worry about breakage), going to try decorating outside on the porch with greens and ornaments.
Anne in Portland
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them" Eyeore from Winnie the Pooh
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Phils Ann
True Blue Farmgirl
1095 Posts
Ann
Parsonsburg
Maryland
USA
1095 Posts |
Posted - Nov 26 2006 : 1:28:45 PM
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The woodstove dries any live greens out in a couple of days.... but as I love the smell of Christmas greens, I usually bring them in on Christmas Eve. The stone mantle over the stove is permanently dressed for Christmas with tin stars, white berries (fake) and little white lights throughout. A grapevine tree with lights gets set out... and then greens for the front door. We're in the 60s all this coming week, though... so I'll wait for cooler weather. I keep it really simple.
Ann
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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl
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Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
Minnesota
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