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Originally Posted by Lilah Charm  Oooh! So excited to see this thread up and rolling again Jeanie  I am sure I saw it floating about last year but I Forgot and excitedly threw up my own thread of Christmas anticipation when we got our Christmas tree thanksgiving weekend this year  we have paper snowflakes hanging from the ceiling and on our kitchen windows but have honestly not done as much tree decorating yet this year- a little but of popcorn an cranberries an some minimal blown egg decorating but the kids ate all the oranges intended for cloving, lol...suppose we better knuckle down with only, gulp...ten days to go 
I have most of my shopping done, I do a lot online. It is hard to balance out all of the kid presents though to make sure everyone has an equal number of equally valued presents. Also I am doing some knit gifts this year and alas I am a hat and a half away at least from goal- oh dear and a pair of socks. Seems I will have to change those plans a bit or really buckle down there too.
We have a lovely Christmas card display thanks to the Yorkie talk holiday card exchange- that has really brightened my spirits! I think watching some christmasey movies sounds like a great plan  I'm putting that on the list. I can't beleive we are so close!  |
Oh, the more Christmas threads - the better! Why doesn't everyone have their own Christmas thread? You sound like you have loads of Christmas spirit and really got the jump on many of us. I had the spirit early on but the body just couldn't get going to carry it all out. Oh, if I only had a professional decorator to do my bidding this year, I'd take full advantage this year!!!
I've still yet to put my ornaments on the tree but I took a full day to just fluff out its branches so today is ornament day - the day they all go on.
Tibbe mostly only gives the tree a sniff or two but stays away from it. I've yet to get one of my two life-size Santa Clauses out - one is a sitting figure that has to totally be padded up, dressed, wigged, Santa head applied, is so much work but the other is a standing figure and pretty easily trucked down the hall into the den from the hobby room, his head applied and he's ready to roll. I replace the standard head that came on him with a genuine retro 50's Coca-Cola type Santa head made of hard vinyl with a great Santa-face/expression, great paint, cherry cheeks, smiling eyes, wide nose, smiling/open mouth just right for a corncob pipe(yes, I have one for him), wig/beard him and he's just great looking.
A picture of that Santa is on this thread farther back. I've tried to find another head like that on Ebay and elsewhere online ever since I found that one at an antique barn out in Forney, Texas one day years ago- on a big Santa plush doll of all things - but never have been able to even see another like it anywhere. I have no idea where it came from as there are no markings on it anywhere that I can see. That face/head just takes you back to those old Coca-Cola ads as it was obviously modeled after Sundblom's Santa paintings for Coke. haha - I've even tried to recreate some of those Coca-Cola Christmas paintings using my Santa and plush dogs and big dolls. Was lots of fun but also lots of work!
I've still got ALL but one shopping to do but I find if I run up to Best Buy close to my house the last few days before Christmas on a Tuesday morning, there are few shoppers, great deals and lots of electronics for the picking. I mostly do audio books for my sister and all hers are all ready to go. Oh, just remembered the family dogs have still got to be shopped for, including Tibbe, but I'll pick those up during my next Walmart run to stock up on TP, paper towels, etc.