How much do you "decorate" for Christmas?

**krbshappy71** · 11-02-2011, 11:03 AM

I don't decorate outside, if I get lucky God does with the beautiful snow! I love a white Christmas.

Inside I do the works: tree, centerpieces, runner on dining table, items on the ledges and dining table, Christmas lights in the bedrooms and down the stair-railing to the basement, in the kitchen I have snowman cookie jar, holiday coffee cups, dishtowels and pot holders. In the bathroom its soap dispenser and hand towels, cute decorations here and there. Around the house I have candles and decorations. I plan to go to my mom's to gather up some pinecones for a natural touch around the house. In the bedrooms I also have winter-decorated bedsheets and bedsheets.

Each year I take a picture of my dogs around the Christmas tree. I put them in a Sit ....Stay, it turns out great, so cute.

My kids are grown, one is gone, we had a couple of years that I wasn't very festive but I found if I just started I actually enjoyed having it all around me. My mom and I get together to wrap presents and turn up the Christmas music. I will miss that next year when I move.

**many houseapes** · 11-02-2011, 04:00 PM

Outside- we decorate the HA's clubhouse. Inside, in the foyer, there are various decorations-including a nativity scene- on the top of a tall cabinet....then the tree in the livingroom is decorated.

**VanO62** · 11-02-2011, 04:53 PM

Outside we just have simple white icicle lights on the roof and then some old fashioned large bulbs around the front door. greenery swags above the outside windows with two red bows and a wreath on the door. Various outside things like a flag with a snowman and some snowman decorations but not a lot.

Inside I have a LOT of decorations. Been living here 29 years so have made, bought at yard sales or on sale after Christmas lots of special little items to decorate the living room, kitchen, computer room and bathroom with. I am an empty nester but hubby and I both enjoy a real tree and I use all the decorations year after year, just sometimes putting them in different places to change things up. LOVE LOVE Christmas decorating!!!1

**imagine** · 11-02-2011, 05:28 PM

Outside I change the icon on the welcome sign from the Thanksgiving pumpkin to the Christmas angel

Inside I have a Rubbermaid storage container of decoration

I put them around the house

Nativity scene advent calander candle centerpiece porcelain santana
And a few small decorations

Then a trees with memory decorations put up on Christmas Eve

**grammea** · 11-03-2011, 10:41 AM

Thanks for sharing everyone!
I love Christmas and all things about it!
My dd and I were just talking about perhaps doing our decorating this weekend though Thanksgiving night is when we usuall do the big decorating.
Large artificial tree,big nativity scene,wreath for back and front door and little odds and ends elsewhere around the house.
Might be doing outside lights this year too!
Never forgetting that Jesus is the reason for the season!
God bless,
Helen(grammea)