Soon it will be the second Sunday of Advent, the day we usually go out for our Christmas tree. That is the beginning of the decorating process at our house. All the boxes will come down from the attic. I will realize the mantle needs dusting before we begin to arrange the nativity scene upon it. We will scheme where to hide the baby Jesus until Christmas Eve, hoping we don't forget where we squirreled him away.
For this Friday morning, then, a few decorating questions:
1) Do you display a nativity scene, and if so, where?
2) Do you put a skirt under the Christmas tree? If so, what does it look like?
3) Do you hang lights on the house or put them in your windows?
4) White lights or colored lights on the tree? Big bulbs or the small, pretty ones? (I'm not biased...much.)
5) Do you have a tree topper? What sort? Who puts it on top of the tree?
I have to work on this supposed day off, but I will be back in the next 24 hours with a round-up of recent posts around the ring. Happy Friday!
1) Do you display a nativity scene, and if so, where?
ReplyDeleteYes We have a knitted nativity scene. It's put up on the midwall shelf. Baby Jesus is already in place because as DD said years ago, Mummy he's already here, we're only celebrating His birthday!
2) Do you put a skirt under the Christmas tree? If so, what does it look like?
skirt? We have a sack cloth with a red trim.
3) Do you hang lights on the house or put them in your windows?
We have menorah style candles (electric) in almost every window. I love those. We also have tiny white lights on our plum tree in the garden.
4) White lights or colored lights on the tree? Big bulbs or the small, pretty ones? (I'm not biased...much.)
We have while candle lamps on the tree. Also Finnish flags. Some years ago we had home made English ones, but they have disappeared.
5) Do you have a tree topper? What sort? Who puts it on top of the tree?
Yes we have a silver star. Hubby is the tallest so he takes the honour. But TS is catching up :)
Our tree is not up yet. We'll do this either the day before Christmas Eve. And remove the tree on Jan 6th. (which is a public holiday here)
My responses are up -- with pictures and a commercial break for a RevGal Fashion Show.
ReplyDeleteI did it too. Thanks Songbird, that was fun.
ReplyDeleteOooh, definitely check out Inner Dorothy. Each question gets its own separate post WITH pictures.
ReplyDeleteI officially covet her nativity scene.
ps - My word verification was "eieio" hee, hee.
My response is here. Not much of a response, but the Christmas tree should be worth the visit!
ReplyDeleteI have now also put up my rant about replacing the word 'Christmas' with the word 'holiday'. I will be interested to hear everyone's feedback.
ReplyDeleteMine are up now.
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