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Amchess

Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 10:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
One Christmas we had been transferred to Ft Bliss, Texas, but all our furniture & belongings accidently went to Alaska, lol. I was in the 5th or 8th grade (we were there twice and I am pretty sure it was the 8th grade tour). So we had no decorations. We went out to the desert, got yucca blossoms and painted them bright colors for the Christmas tree. By the time we added lights and tinsel we had a beautiful tree. My mother would do the tinsel one strand at a time. I tried and tried to do that and never could - would wind up throwing clumps. Now we load up on lights and ornaments and forget the tinsel, lol. I have always remembered how perfect everything was that Christmas and we made all of the decorations ourselves.

Amchess

Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 10:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
By the way, I remember the tumbleweeds too. And the sand storms - ouch. We lived on the parade grounds of Ft Bliss, and when we had a bad sandstorm the windows would hum - I think from the metal flashing???? Anyway, it was spooky if no one else was home. HUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Wargod

Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 11:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Amchess, I live in the desert and will second that ouch! You'd never think sand could hurt that bad til you get hit with it!

Tabbyking

Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 02:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
we skip the tinsel now, too. my dad made us do one tinsel at a time. got old after about 11 tinsels. LOL
now my daughter and i have made large bows out of a shimmery red-gold 3-inch wide 'wired' ribbon. we have 25 to 30 bows and hang them on the outer branches of the finished tree. i smash 'em flat to store them, then poof them out to re-use the next year. makes for a nice 'victorian' look finish.

Amchess

Friday, December 19, 2003 - 05:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I went on a wooden ornament kick several years ago - rocking horses, toy soldiers, etc. Then all kinds of plush Santa's. Not so many glass ornaments anymore (they disintegrate on my terrazo floor, even with the tree skirt!). I still love the wooden ones, but haven't been able to find them in ages! I guess they are in some nook or cranny, lol.

Lumbele

Friday, December 19, 2003 - 09:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Did that wooden ornament thing, too. After 20 years of Boxing day sales we could probably decorate that big tree in NYC.LOL But this year it's just oodles of red apples and straw ornaments. Looks great in its minimalistic way.

Reiki

Friday, December 26, 2003 - 09:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I love seeing all the decorations here. Gives me lots of ideas.

Here is a link to pictures of my tree this year. I do a different theme every year. This year was Alice in Wonderland/Looking Glass. I buy some ornaments and things that fit within the story and I make everything else. I always make at least one ornament as my "give away" ornaments. Instead of Christmas presents I give people an ornament. People have collections at this point. The 2003 ornaments were the Flower Faces to represent the talking flowers that Alice finds in Looking glass land.

I hope you enjoy them:

Reiki's 2003 Tree Pictures at Shutterfly

Pamy

Friday, December 26, 2003 - 09:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I cant get the pics to blow up full size.

Juju2bigdog

Friday, December 26, 2003 - 11:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Pamy, maybe play them as a slideshow.

Cool tree, Reiki.

Egbok

Friday, December 26, 2003 - 11:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi TVCHer's. After reading Tess's Tales tonight, I was reminded that I needed to come in here and give you the 3rd and final "Egbob's Tumbleweed Snowman" story.

Well Egbob and the Egglets created their masterpiece in no time flat....I mean, after doing this for 20 plus years, they have it down to a science. You know how New York Yankee Fan dads pass down stats on Yankee Players past and present to their young, well..Egbob has trained the Egglets on the fine art of putting together the Tumbleweed Snowman.

In no time at all, there was our Tumbleweed Snowman, decked out with a top hat, blue glass ornament eyes, a carrot nose made from an orange cone-shaped styrofoam piece, a branch which formed the big smile, the black pipe, branches for arms and hands, the scarf and all outlined with small twinkling colorful lights that turn on when the sun goes down. He sat on our fine trimmed green lawn looking so happy to be hanging out in front of our house for all to come and see!

Well...Christmas Day arrived and with it came a big rain and wind storm. We were gone all day and arrived home around 10pm to find that the rain and wind had tumbled our Tumbleweed Snowman!! He was smooshed over onto his side and his lights were knocked out, but he was still smiling...poor guy!

So the next morning (today), while I was at work, Egbob took the pruning shears to him and well...he's gone! I never got to take a picture of him.

So...there's always next year, okay?

Wargod

Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 12:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
If the wind down your way was close to what we had up here, Eggie, I'm stunned Tumbleweed Snowman, twigs, and lights were still there at all!

Tess

Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 12:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well crud. There goes my "photo of the day" for tomorrow! We've had nice (if freaky) weather up here. Totally blue sky yesterday and it was still snowing. What the heck?

Pretty pictures, Reiki! Thanks for sharing.

Pamy

Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 12:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Finally got to see Reiki's pics! I love that tree! I love how you make and give the ornaments!!

Poor Tumblesnowman!!! The wind was bad here too, all of our outside decoration were ready to topple over.

It is the first Christmas that wasn't sunny

Egbok

Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 03:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah Pamy...how weird not to have bright sunny and warm weather on Christmas. However, I really did enjoy the dark skies, hard rains and the strong winds for a change!

And Tess, sorry about disappointing your "photo op"...however, I could provide you with a photo of a red hat and I know someone's eyebrows we could raise with this photo...hee-hee!

Pamy

Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 03:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
There is always the Dopey butt shot or Peppermint Dopey pic for Tess' tabloid tales!

Egbok

Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 03:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, good idea Pamy!!...Hey Tess, put in the Peppermint Dopey pic for your tales photo op!!

Tess

Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 09:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
comes in humming.....In the meadow we can build a snowman. Then the wind comes and blows it down......<sob>

Egbok

Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 09:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ohhh I feel so bad...., don't cry Tess....it was a freak of nature, because it never rains in Southern California!!

Pamy

Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 09:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Tess!!

Grannie

Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 09:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Egbok and Tess:

Just stopped by to offer my deepest sympathies for the loss of your snowman (Ms. Eggie) and your photo possibility (Tess).

Remember that your snowman did the best under those harsh conditions and that in the years to come you may possibly have many more snowmen in your lives.

Are you certain that a gang of snowman killers didn't attack poor snowman? Maybe you should call out the snowman police to take fingerprints or something?

Just thinking out loud here...............

Egbok

Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 09:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
!!!...Gosh Grannie, I didn't think of THAT possibility!! Okay, I'm going down to the station and ask the snowman police to start an investigation....

Grannie

Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 09:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ms. Eggie, I hope they take this matter seriously as your future snowmen may receive the same fate. Could be a serial snowman killer out there????

Egbok

Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 10:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
....serial snowman killer??....<gulp>...

Grannie

Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 10:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gulp is right.................


I am getting scared now.

Tess

Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 10:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
We had fun playing with Eg's snowman......until the meanies stomped him on the ground.

ack!