Let's start now with some Holiday decorating.
I was shopping today, and low and behold, Christmas decorations are on sale. So are Thanksgiving decorations. That is one holiday, that I really never decorate for. Maybe a few gourds in a wooden pumpkin and a cornucopia. I usually start my Christmas decorating before Thanksgiving as I have so many decorations. And what did I do, yesterday at the church bazaar, I bought a few glass Christmas pieces.
The first thing to do, or I should say that I do, and so do people I have worked with over the years, is to put away all my accessories in each room that I am going to use Christmas decorations in.
I must make room for everything, so I have to get all the decorations out of the cupboards first then I wash everything and put it in where the Christmas things are stored. I really have to be careful as I really don't have that much room. I happen to have an air conditioned room in my attic, so it is easy to store the Christmas things up there. Fortunately for me, I have grandsons that can get the things down as we can't do it any more. This is also one way to get everything cleaned and some of your cupboards. Two jobs done at one time.
I will start with pictures of what my room looks like, then take it apart. I decorate every room, so I do have a lot. Again, I will tell you that I by an awful lot after Christmas, so it is like having new things right away this year. I tell myself, I don't need another thing and I by it anyways. I love Christmas.
Today, Macy's, Dillards, J.C. Penney's and JoAnne's, I got some new ideas for an outside tree. Now I need to buy a tree.
When my children were little in the 70's and 80's, I made a Charlie Brown tree. Long before they came out with them. We cut a barren small tree in the woods, spray painted it white and put on little white lights on it. We used a board for the base and hammered nails in from the bottom. We painted that and put an old sheet under it. All the ornaments that the kids made in school, shrinkey dinks, beaded ornaments that the kids made to keep them busy until Christmas. When they got married, I gave each one on them their box of their own home made ornaments. Many people we knew then all made them after they saw ours.
It was our start of the Charlie Brown Tree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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