[yorkietalkjilly]

Well, all my Christmas decorations are now put away except the tree. Santa Claus and I had a steelcage match-to-the-death wrestling match a while ago and he's dusted, beard/wig shaken out, head packed to protect the face, sacked up in plastic over his base up to his waist and one meeting and overlapping it over his shoulders and down to below the knees, taped closed and wheeled on the little dolly back to the hobby room. His sack and fake presents that go in it are packaged away.

All that is left standing in the den is the Christmas tree with its white "snow" skirt and the 35" Shirley Temple in the pink party dress standing beside it.

Whew, now, later today or tomorrow, out come the top hats, black walking sticks, white globes and white evening scarves, champagne bottles and glasses, old-fashioned brass, twin-bell ticking clock counting down to midnight, streamers, noisemakers, NYE party hats and more streamers. I usually use my large 25" and 27" Kewpies for my NY decorations and one of them is always dressed in the New Year's big white baby diaper with huge pin in the front, a tophat, and Happy 2013 banner across it's chest. Sometimes I just use a lifesize baby doll or a huge Teddy Bear for the New Year's Baby, though. Right now, it's all I can do to drink my Diet Coke, let alone think about decorating more right now.

I may just drape a champagne bottle in a streamer and be done with New Year's Eve decorating the way I feel right now!!! Santa nearly did me in!