2. Fake or real tree? Or no tree? More than one tree?
3. Tree topper: star? angle? homemade? antique/family heirloom? same every year?
4. Colored lights? White lights? Lights outside? Other outside decorations?
5. Christmas Cards: Card? Letter? Pictures? Picture/card combo? Picture/letter combo? Every year or just years that you "get around to it"?
5b. Cards received- do you display them? Where? All, or just the photo ones? Where do you put them if you don't display them?
My friend, Marie, at Life In A Tiny Town posted this and I so totally stole it from her.
Thx Sweetie!!
My answers.......
1)Depends on the context. Usually I do say 'Happy Holidays' unless I know for sure the person I am speaking to is Christian. I like to include everyone and 'Happy Holidays' just about covers it all.
2)My tradition now is ...a REAL tree for the Living/Family room, and various sizes of artificial trees for the other rooms of the house. The most I have ever had was 7. Yes, SEVEN.
3)I change my tree topper out every year. I have a clear plastic one that actually looks like Glass....but my ceilings are so low where I live now I would have to have a 5 ft tree to use it so its displayed on the bookcase til I get in a house with cathedral ceilings. A 5 Ft tree is NOT big enought for my Christmases. Sorry- but that's just the way I roll.
I have used a Barbie in a wedding gown for a tree topper, a Santa hat, a star, an angel, and a bird.
There is no limit to what you can use for a tree topper and not unlike Marie, I have yet to find just the PERFECT one I cannot do without!!!
4)I use BOTH multi-colored and white lights. First I wrap the tree in one kind, keeping all the plugs grouped together, and then I do the other color. If I want all white- I just plug in the white group of plugs...if I want the colored lights- I plug them all in- white and colored. The white AND colored combined really makes the tree pop!!! I have a wreath for the front door- and hanging swags (made from an old artificial tree) for the front window shutters. That's all I do for the outside...so far. :-) When I get my OWN house I'm sure that will change.
5) I send out cards and I always have them ready by Thanksgiving Day...I hand deliver as many of them as I possibly can. ......My mom has a black & white photo taken of me in my Christmas PJs when I was two years old kissing an ornament on our Christmas tree. IF she ever locates it and loans it to me for two minutes so I can scan it- I'm going to do custom Christmas cards with that Pic on the front of it with a red MERRY CHRISTMAS beside it. I think it will be beautiful!! (I'm a little full of myself, huh?) :-)
5a) I do display my cards...all of them. I am one of those weird people who saves their Christmas cards every year and displays them every year following. I have dozens and dozens and I display them on my entertainment center, bookshelves, on the archway in my living-room, and a few very special ones, I have framed in plain black frames and I hang as seasonal art thru-out our home.
.....Sigh.........I love Christmas...I just don't have the energy for it at the moment.
My friend, Marie, at Life In A Tiny Town posted this and I so totally stole it from her.
Thx Sweetie!!
My answers.......
1)Depends on the context. Usually I do say 'Happy Holidays' unless I know for sure the person I am speaking to is Christian. I like to include everyone and 'Happy Holidays' just about covers it all.
2)My tradition now is ...a REAL tree for the Living/Family room, and various sizes of artificial trees for the other rooms of the house. The most I have ever had was 7. Yes, SEVEN.
3)I change my tree topper out every year. I have a clear plastic one that actually looks like Glass....but my ceilings are so low where I live now I would have to have a 5 ft tree to use it so its displayed on the bookcase til I get in a house with cathedral ceilings. A 5 Ft tree is NOT big enought for my Christmases. Sorry- but that's just the way I roll.
I have used a Barbie in a wedding gown for a tree topper, a Santa hat, a star, an angel, and a bird.
There is no limit to what you can use for a tree topper and not unlike Marie, I have yet to find just the PERFECT one I cannot do without!!!
4)I use BOTH multi-colored and white lights. First I wrap the tree in one kind, keeping all the plugs grouped together, and then I do the other color. If I want all white- I just plug in the white group of plugs...if I want the colored lights- I plug them all in- white and colored. The white AND colored combined really makes the tree pop!!! I have a wreath for the front door- and hanging swags (made from an old artificial tree) for the front window shutters. That's all I do for the outside...so far. :-) When I get my OWN house I'm sure that will change.
5) I send out cards and I always have them ready by Thanksgiving Day...I hand deliver as many of them as I possibly can. ......My mom has a black & white photo taken of me in my Christmas PJs when I was two years old kissing an ornament on our Christmas tree. IF she ever locates it and loans it to me for two minutes so I can scan it- I'm going to do custom Christmas cards with that Pic on the front of it with a red MERRY CHRISTMAS beside it. I think it will be beautiful!! (I'm a little full of myself, huh?) :-)
5a) I do display my cards...all of them. I am one of those weird people who saves their Christmas cards every year and displays them every year following. I have dozens and dozens and I display them on my entertainment center, bookshelves, on the archway in my living-room, and a few very special ones, I have framed in plain black frames and I hang as seasonal art thru-out our home.
.....Sigh.........I love Christmas...I just don't have the energy for it at the moment.
3 comments:
1. Merry Christmas
2. I prefer real, but I use fake... it's cheaper.
3. Star, the same every year
4. Colored lights. Sometimes I do outside lights, sometimes not.
5. Just years that you "get around to it"?
5b. I display them all, at various locations through the house
Oh, saving them from year to year and then re-displaying them is a fun idea! I DO save many of them- all the letters and photos for sure, but they languish in a manila envelope for all eternity.
Thanks for the link! And I hope your water troubles are over for good!
(Also, I totally understand how intimidating it can be to get STARTED with the decorating. Once the ball is rolling, it's easier, though, huh?
1. I respond with whatever the other person uses ...
2. Two. The big one is fake, white. The small one is fiber optic, beyond cool.
3. No tree topper.
4. Colored lights on the white tree, nothing outside.
5. We send few cards, get few, put the few we get on a bookcase.
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