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Dizzy...

My Christmas tree is my fireplace .....with the logs burning, I decorate the mantle that's an old railway sleeper ....and put a fantastic garland of holly & poinsettias with tiny red lights and Baubles .....

Haven't got time for my Christmas tree to go up !!, as I go away too soon before & after .

But I like your Idea of family Baubles...I might do one for my dear mum and tie it in the garland.

Marilyn ...that loves Christmas :-D

Thats a lovely idea Dizzi,
I might put a few extra baubles on this year.
Especially for my mum.

We also raise our glass to loved ones,
and remember the stories about them.
Especially Mum,with her Christmas Pudding with all the sixpences in.
Its nice to remember.

Thanks Dizzi for the good idea.
xx :-D :-D

Ohh...........that is lovely Carol. x

Nighty night Barb............I hope you have a silent night, holy night..........

Oh noooo.....i am doing it again!!

:-0 :-D :-D

Dammit missed Mrs Browns Boys

Was watching The Servants. It was very interesting about life below stairs.

Going to bed now but no caffeine for me Bin up since 3am as it is

Night night girls

Gonna dream about xmas. NOT. LOL

keep forgetting to say how much I love PH,s baby picture :-D

Rose............pull yerself togevver.

We got Halloween to get through yet!!! :-D

I have a decoration brought to celebrate my first grandson's first Christmas ... he celebrated just 3 with us in body ... the decoration is still with us & will be carefully unwrapped this year as it has been for the last 16 years.

When we gather together for Christmas we raise a toast to those who are no longer sharing that table. It is not sombre, we laugh about past Christmas's & remember the happiness shared.



My tree always looks good to me, it is not carefully decorated to compliment the décor, but each item carries a memory. Some of my decorations are glass ones that decorated the tree in my husbands home when he was a boy, others I remember hanging from the one in my own childhood home. I also have decorations made for me by my children (now both adults) & Grandchildren, every year they threaten to throw them away, but know better than touch them :-D

Some of the glass ones are losing their colour so I may see if I can carefully paint them with names & dates.

well I am just crying into my coffee watching 'Mrs Brown's Boys' Christmas special...thank goodness they showed it tonight and not Christmas, I am such a softy. :-D

It's a lovely idea. Our church does a similar thing every year in that we all write our late relative's names on a little card and it is tied on a memory tree.

I'm not doing Xmas this year Barb.

It's too much trouble. ;-)

SH dont let 5EXY hear cause he will be doing his countdown on here too

I dont start xmas until about a week to go

Every year I say " I,m not doing xmas this year " too much trouble and they all say OK mum or OK nan
So why on Boxing day do I get up at the crack of dawn preparing for the usual invasion eating and drinking me out of house and home.

And complimenting me on my tree

:-D :-D

Chestnuts roasting on an.............

OMG!!

What am i doing!! :-D

** Likes Patricks comment ** :-D

My main tree is certainly not colour co-ordinated, nor does it have any sort of theme.

Like you Barb............my tree is full of old and not so old bits and bobs from years gone by. Full of all sorts of memories. You would laugh if you saw the angel that sits on the top of the tree.

But it is the most precious angel in all the world.

My tree is beautiful.............and i love it.

To early to even think about Christmas yet. Remind me on the 24th December.

WHEN MY KIDS WERE LITTLE THEY DECORATED THE TREE

IT WAS COVERED AT THE BOTTOM AAND HARDLY ANY
AT THE TOP

THEY COULDNT REACH IT
AND THE FAIRY WAS HALFWAY DOWN

The rest of the family have beautiful colour co-ordinated trees

But I put all my old and not so old decorations on of all colours. Some have lovely memories some not
For me that's what my tree is all about and we love it.

My kids and g,kids have all helped me decorate the tree and they have got memories from it too

thats a nice idea Dizzy,,,,,,and I like it enough to give it a go will blend lovely with the old faded glass baubles that mum had for over 60 years,


my kids now do the same with those Ive passed on from when they were tots.......and stuff they made at school I still have up ,much to their embarresment.


;-) :-D

Not at all Sylvia.

I did read the suggestion Rose .. and replied to it ... I chose to decline .. is that a problem ?