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[BlackBerry25]

YEAH!! Can you mail me some? I will PM you my new address

 

[readynwilling]

watching debbie travis decorate trees on tv. she says for every square foot of tree have 5 core ornaments, 3 accent, and 1 fancy ornament and to start the lights at the top and wind your way around the tree.

i love decorating the tree. i use to do theme tree's... i have whole sets of blue&silver, green&crystal, brown&gold, teal, and finally pink ornaments cause i wanted a different colour each year LOL. this year im thinking red and white (cause thats what debbie did on TV and i liked it LOL) but i guess while kid's are young its going to be hard to do the "designer tree" look as i will need to hang all their homemade ornaments on there. Also getting special ones like "babies first xmas" i will either need to buy them all white so i can do white and another colour each year, or they will always be mismatched.

xmas tree decorating... when my OCD comes out to play LOL

 

[Melissa_M]

wow Sara that's a lot of decorations!! haha
My tree is red and silver....every year

 

[Tiff]

My mom was the same as you Sara, so she did two trees There was the posh theamed tree upstairs and then the fun, kid tree downstairs.

She does different colours each year too. I prefer white lights but Mr. Drama King prefers coloured ones. He's so freaking opinionated! Just once I wish he'd just not care about stuff like that so I can do what I want.

 

[readynwilling]

OH defo white lights LOL

every year for the last4 or 5 years i have bought a complete new set of ornaments so i have a TON LOL

2 trees is a great idea... maybe when the basement is done (next year) i can do the theme tree upstairs (have it a smaller fake tree) and do our real tree (kid friendly) downstairs and thats where we will open gifts.

I love xmas

 

[tasha41]

Ya when I get my basement back / next Christmas I'm getting a white tree for all of my HK and kiddie ornaments lol I'm glad I can finally admit to my plans somewhere, bc Andrew thinks I'm nuts

 

[Vickie]

Sara it's so hard to imagine you OCD about a Christmas tree! I'm sure yours is way more stylish than mine

We do red and silver as well but I have ornaments of every kind and color We have a lot of Disney ornaments but I love snowmen as well so I have several of those and some Santa's there for good measure

And we've been making salt dough ornaments with Hannah every year and letting her paint those and put them on the tree. I don't keep them all but I keep 1-2 with her name on it and the year she made it for her to keep in the future (if she wants them )

I bought a really cute ornament at Disney store today but of course it won't let me link it

 

[Melissa_M]

Vickie how do you make the salt dough ornaments?? That sounds like something fun to do with Alia.

 

[Vickie]

I think I use this recipe but halve it:

https://allrecipes.com/Recipe/dough-ornament-recipe/detail.aspx

and once they are dried I've been using the crayola paints because they are washable and I let her throw some glitter on while the paint is still wet the paint is okay (it's not the greatest but it comes out of clothes easily )

 

[Vickie]

Tiff--Have you seen the Nightmare before Christmas ornaments at Disney store??!? they are pretty cool, I think of you every time I see them!

 

[impatient1]

I was OCD about my lights on my tree because my mom's look perfect so I bought a tree with the lights in but they are coloured. I like white lights on my house though better. We really have a scattered collection of ornaments with ones that are made and bought, kid ornaments, etc. I would love to have a fancy tree one day though.

 

[readynwilling]

i'm just a very symmetrical with my tree.... hate it if the left doesn't look like the right, or funny bare spots or too many ornaments clustered LOL i hang everything, step back, move stuff and repeat 10 times, drives Tim NUTS

ITS SNOWING

 

[Vickie]

Hannah doesn't much care where the ornaments go it's pretty wild trying to decorate with her

It snowed for a few minutes here as well but it's already stopped. It is pretty chilly out though! I guess we're finally getting into winter

 

[Sarahkka]

Good afternoon!
Well, it sure started off being one of those days: two massive poop-splosions (one that happened on the floor as I was disposing of the overflowing diaper of the other). Then I managed to somehow hurl a full bowl of porridge in a beautiful arc of gloppy disaster and thoroughly coat my kitchen in oatmeal, which, of course, turned to glue almost instantaneously.
Despite all this, I was only five minutes late for gymnastics! Which was very fun today!

 

[Sarahkka]

Oh! And then we went and had lunch at IKEA - my favourite place to eat with toddlers. And I bought a few xmas bits there, too. A whole bunch of stuff I really didn't need. IKEA is very good at that, eh?

 

[Sarahkka]

We do a fun hodge-podge tree. I'm not really into designer trees. I really like the handmade kind of decorations and the stories behind the different ornaments.

 

[Vickie]

Glad your day got better Sarah! Not sure I'd have left the house after all those morning catastrophes

 

[Sarahkka]

Vickie, I HAD to get out of there!!!! If I had stayed home, I knew it would have gotten worse!
Okay, any ideas how to make chiselling porridge off the ceiling any easier?

 

[Vickie]

good point, I have had days like that where getting out seemed like it'd be my only saving grace

no idea how to scrape oatmeal off a ceiling I'm afraid

 

[readynwilling]

oh no sarah! im glad you had a good time at IKEA - i like lunch there too!

i have never had any ornaments with special meaning behind them - so hopefully we can start collecting those now and have a fantastic "hodge podge" tree!