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I love all your photos so much! I usually start my holiday decorating right about now... and we're on a bit of a time crunch, because we're hosting a party in about a week, and the BF wants to go all-out this year. We've ordered a third tree that arrives today. That's how serious he is about "all-out".
I'll post some photos once I get things done.
I have now added star lanterns, Chevy Chase, and a bird tree a la Janet to my must-haves list.
Done my decor last weekend. We do not have a tree this year, so just some greenery around our living room. on the photo #3, the window looks bare but I expect all my white orchids to flower around Christmas. I’ll post a picture once they are in bloom. Also, can’t put much on a window shelf, this is a cats’ observation point
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I absolutely love the Christmas season and enjoy hearing about and getting a glimpse of how each of you decorate your homes in such personal and unique ways. Our decorations get pulled out and put up at the end of November each year, just in time for my mom’s birthday. We have hosted her party over the last few years. She turned 93 this year. The set dining room table you see in some of the photos, was for her birthday dinner.
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Gosh, I wish I had holiday spirit, but life under the cloud of Covid has killed that. Mr. ND and I will get a tree today and decorate it but I'm just going through the motions. I was exposed to Covid while working at the Nutcracker because I was near someone who was symptomatic and later tested positive. Fortunately, I tested negative. Frankly, I'm ready to move on from the holiday season.
@ nuancedream - I’m so sorry to learn this, but glad you tested negative. It is hard - things are shutting down here as well as case numbers go up. I scrambled to get appointments for DH and myself for the booster shots on the 29th, and I’m finding it hard to stay out of the cookie jar!
Yesterday (it was 12degC!) I cut holly from our bushes and decorated the red room.
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No tree and no decorations for the second consecutive year. I decided it was pointless to put up holiday decorations considering how I feel emotionally. Last year, I was dealing with a physical injury and this year, it's depression exacerbated by seasonal affective disorder. All I can do is take things one day at a time and hope 2022 is better...much better.
We have a holiday decorating dilemma. We want (the grandkids want) a decorated tree at out house. The real ones are very expensive this year. We have no room to store an artificial one. We have a fairly bid indoor potted ficus tree and a Norfolk Island pine, but the branches of both are too weak to add lights and decorations. What do we do? We do have some other decorations up like a mantle full of gnomes and wooden trees, and shelves of candles and gold angels, a manger diorama, poinsettias and a Japanese door decoration. What do the littles in your family like in the way of decorations? Would you do a tree?
Joy, could you use fairy lights in one of your potted trees? They're practically weightless but give a lot of sparkle. I've gotten non-Christmas-branded ones on Amazon and even at Home Depot, in the outside lighting department. And then very lightweight ornaments that the grandkids might enjoy? Paper chains and paper snowflakes come to mind. And tinsel/icicles. It would not be all that traditional but maybe it would scratch the decorated tree itch.
For other decorations, my mother has a lighted Christmas village display. When we were little we played with the (non-china) manger scene. But our favorite was the tree, because it's such a focal point. Sometimes we'd get blankets and "sleep" under it for a little while at night.
