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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Sunday, December 05, 2004 - 9:36 pm
i thought i'd start a thread after starting to see how people are decorating for the holidays. i remember seeing eggie's tumbleweed snowman last year, and other people's lights. i figured i'd start it off.
santa chuck starts to put up our christmas tree. chuck and i are allergic to trees, so we got us a GREAT fake one 12 years ago for almost $100. it sure seemed expensive that long ago. but it sure has paid for itself.}}
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Sunday, December 05, 2004 - 9:37 pm
the christmas tree is all put together, and the lights are done.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Sunday, December 05, 2004 - 9:39 pm
my very first mantle is finally finished. i've never had a real fireplace to hang a stocking from. chuck made me a fire just for me to take my picture.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Sunday, December 05, 2004 - 9:40 pm
miss holly puts the very first ornament on the tree.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, December 05, 2004 - 10:04 pm
I'm glad you started this thread landi! How sweet of Santa Chuck to build you a fire for the photo op. Yay Santa Chuck!! (You can be sure Egbob will once again be creating our tumbleweed snowman....it's tradition!! LOL!!)
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Sherbabe
Member
07-28-2002
| Sunday, December 05, 2004 - 10:19 pm
of all those huge blow up, outdoor cartoon characters for christmas........which is your favorite.
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Deesandy
Member
08-12-2003
| Sunday, December 05, 2004 - 10:38 pm
We went the traditional route this year, last year we decorated our tree with starfish and hibiscus flowers!
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Sunday, December 05, 2004 - 11:24 pm
Great thread Landi! I (finally) decorated my tree on Wednesday. Max has had a ball with it the past few days...literally. I have to re-hang at least 5 balls every day. Thank goodness we have an artificial tree or I'm sure he'd have climb it quite a few times already!
I'll add a pic of the tree we had in our apartment two years ago. I sure do miss the big old trees we used to be able to get...but I don't miss the mess one bit!

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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Sunday, December 05, 2004 - 11:26 pm
sorry! forgot to resize a bit before posting. mods...help!
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Deesandy
Member
08-12-2003
| Monday, December 06, 2004 - 9:08 am
Sherbabe, my daughter LOVES to see the snowman one the most! Maybe because we live in Florida and there isn't any snow here...
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Monday, December 06, 2004 - 9:28 am
I know someone in Texas that wants to shoot a reindeer, ah Hippy, that is so not the Christmas spirit.
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Monday, December 06, 2004 - 2:20 pm
Here is my Christmas tree (yes I know that the star is crooked..it is just too heavy for the top of the tree, but I like so there

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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, December 06, 2004 - 8:10 pm
These will likely come out blurry, due to my hand shake without a flash, and the reduction in file size. My dh PROMISES me he will take a better photo of the tree ... but I'm not holding my breath Haha! I decorated it on Thursday night ... my first free night in weeks. This is the first time we've put up our tree in 3 years, so I'm happy Here's the tree lengthwise:
And here's a photo of the hearth (with the tree to the left):

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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Monday, December 06, 2004 - 8:38 pm
These are all so pretty! I want one of the skinny trees.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 7:01 am
Hippy, I have a fake tree in the corner and just didn't put the back branches on it!! LOL It fits SO much better now. I am having outside light envy. I am having to do all my lights off of one outlet. I think it looks really pretty...around my door, in the front bushes, down the entryway and ends with candy canes, but WOW..come back from out of town and our street looks like a page from the Griswalds!!!!!! I want more outlets!!!!!!
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 9:30 am
Annie, that's what you get for going out of town...LOL! I bet your outside decorations look nice. Are you going to post some pics? I love coming in this thread to see all the newest decorations. Thanks for sharing!!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 10:04 am
That's the nice thing about fake trees, Annie, LOL. When the kids were babies we would leave the lower branches off so they couldn't get to them and it looked just fine. Once we got the presents under there it really didn't look like there was anything different with the tree either. We also used lattice to make a little fence around the tree that was another detterent for them, lol. We started to decorate the outside of the house, right up until we got to the lights and plugged them in for testing. Half the strands weren't working and we realized how old they were so decided this year we aren't putting them up. Got our candy canes lined up along the driveway, looks fairly simple compared to most of our neighbors, but I'm not willing to take chances with the old sets of lights. One of my favoritist parts of Christmas is going out to look at lights. We usually go a week or two before Christmas, then again on Christmas Eve when we go back to our favorite neighborhoods. I love this thread because I get to look at everyones pretty decorations without freezing my butt off, LOL.
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 10:37 am
My neighbor fixed one of our reindeer. Her poor head wasn't moving,and someone fixed her! I walked out on the porch this morning and her head was just nodding away! I think that was pretty darn nice.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 10:43 am
I'll try Eggie. I think they look really lovely too. Didn't know how competitive I was either till I drove down the street last night! LOL
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 10:45 am
i only read the first two sentences out of your post hippy, and i was busting a gut laughing thinking that someone had "fixed" your reindeer. i thought to myself, "well bob barker would be proud!" you don't EVEN wanna know how my mind thinks some times! hehehehhee
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 10:51 am
LOL! Eggie!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 3:56 pm
No pics of my decorations yet, but this is my Christmas card pic. These are my babies. DD is 10 and DS is 15. sorry..it was going the wrong way! LOL
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 3:58 pm

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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 4:27 pm
Wow, Texannie! What beautiful children!! Take after their mom, I see. 
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 4:36 pm
Ah..thanks!! And that wasn't the pic they liked! LOL They wanted one with the dogs in it.
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