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Beautiful tree Sea-nile! And also the picture of you at your friends house is great.

Linne - I'm sorry that I don't have taken any pictures yet. I think my decorations are nothing special, when I have seen all the others here. But I will show a few pictures later, when I have decorated the tree and taken a few more things out from the closet. Right now it's not much to show.

Such a beautiful tree you have Sea-Nile, thank you for the pics. Is it normal to place the gifts under the tree before Christmas? It's not a tradition here.

Maggy, when I see all the pics here, I feel that no one can find my decorations nice. But in the other way
it's my Scandinavian style, and I believe that people enjoy to see it, even though they like the decorations or not.

So for those of you, who like me, cannot get enough of these pics, I will show some more details:

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We have found the old root more than 40 years ago and we have used it every Christmas since. I mostly use things I have found in the nature to decorate with



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This decoration I have made to my son and daugther in law



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Have a nice evening!

Linne

Hi Linne That orange with the cloves in it brings back bad memories from sixth grade we made those for our mothers the smell of 30 in the class room made me sick to this day i can stand the smell of cloves.LOL

Linne, I am going to say that the sight of that orange gave me the opposite reaction of waterguy....I am going to go make one right now! We had a terrible ice storm in part of our state, the part that John's relatives live in, and they are ALL here, them and their pets (!!) and they have been all weekend, because they have no power. Some of them are staying with us, some of them are in hotels up the street. I am feeding people in shifts--yesterday I spent $400 at the grocery store to get the ingredients for two dinners. That was only for the food, thw wine was extra! I would like to scream, but instead I think I will stick an orange full of cloves. It will be my voodoo orange! I am only on the computer now because everyone is watching the football game.

I always used to roll the oranges in cinnamon after putting in the cloves.

Here is a picture of my table, getting ready to set out all the appetizers last night. The only thing on the table in this picture is the crackers:


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Becky you answered my question that I just asked on the food thread! Bless you child

Our tree fell down! We have a bigger room to put it in now, so we got a taller tree than in the past. (It's about 9' tall.) We thought we had a big enough stand, but apparently not! Now the tree is wired to the wall behind it. Here it is, looking kind of sparce because alot of ornaments broke


We did a second tree this year (this one is fake.) We happened to have alot of bird ornaments, so we decorated tree #2 with the birds, and one cat at the bottom looking up at them:


I have a couple dozen little wooden Santas, about 4" tall. It's hard to get them all in the shot, but I think they look kinda cute on the door frame between our kitchen and family room:

Love the Santas; sorry about your tree.. A very early childhood memory is our tree crashing down and losing old Italian glass ornaments that my father's family had collected..

Linne, I love seeing all your Scandinavian decorations. I wish there were more people on here from other countries.

We still have not put the tree up. What slugs we are this year! Outside looks pretty though... it would look magical with a bit of snow, but none so far...

Maryanne,

That happens alot! Once when my neice was a child
(now a sophmore in college) she came over and we put up the tree. Finished, stepped back to admire and it was like a slow motion movie, it just plopped right over. We still laugh about every year.

I tried to get some decent pictures over the weekend but they are all kind of blurry...Oh well.

Our outside entry



Our tree



and the stockings...



I am thinking of adding a 2nd tree and putting it in the family room next year. I am thinking simple with all starfish and sand dollars since my family room is very beach-themed.

Here are some from the PA Girl house. My camera setting were all messed up and I didn't realize it until this morning when I downloaded.

The mantel in our kitchen. I am going for a children's theme and incorporated my old toys into the greens and pinecones. Mr. PAGirl isn't too crazy about it.



The mantel in our living room. I used four or five different types of pine cones -



We cut our own tree each year at a farm where you drive back into the fields. No snow this weekend but it was very cold, which was a good thing as the mud was frozen solid.



The end result -



Some of our STJ decorations -





This is one of several that I made using bits and pieces pick up from Florida beaches. The picture did not turn out well.



I filled the bottom of the clear glass balls with sand and put it bits of dried sea fans, tiny shells, dried crabs, sea glass and various other treasures we picked up over the years while walking on the gulf coast (North Reddington Beach area) beach.

I should have taken one from the weekend before last of my wife clinging to the tree, covered in water and sap, with me crawling on the floor among shards of broken glass and plastic.

Yup...the fully-decorated tree fell over.

Good times!

Funny story with the cloves, Waterguy . But of course not funny for you not liking the smell

What about your woodoo liamsaunt. Did it help?

Sorry for those, who has experienced that their tree fall down, of course mostly if ornaments, who mean something special, are broken. But your tree is still nice, chicagoans!

Flipflop, I think your outside entry are so beautiful and impressing. After Danish standard we have a big house, but to see your house- and others- confirm for me that everything in USA is bigger!

PA girl, I love your ornaments. If it hasn’t been so expensive to send something from USA to Denmark I would have participated in the ornament exchange. I also love the trees you showed in the pic. Here in Denmark many people now use a sort of tree with only a few branches, it can be nice too, but I still prefer the tree with thick branches. And those in the pic – and your tree too- are very shapely.

Hope to see more pics!

Linne

Linne, I think I will participate next year in the ornament exchange. It's not that expensive to send things to the US. To make it cheaper, you could choose an ornament that is more flat or thin rather than wide or round.

I just sent 8 CD's to the US with cards in, and the postage was 25 Swedish Kronor each (about $3), which is even less in Danish Kronor. Not that expensive I think.

Maggy, I cannot understand that. According to the prices for packets, which we just have received from the post-office authorities it costs 155 dkr. to send a packet to Sweden, Norway etc. + 10 dkr. per kilo, with ship it's cheaper 135 dkr. + 6 kr. per kilo.
And I presume of course that it must cost much more to send a packet to USA Strange Perhaps I have to ask next time, if I have misunderstood something.

Linne

linne wrote:
Flipflop, I think your outside entry are so beautiful and impressing. After Danish standard we have a big house, but to see your house- and others- confirm for me that everything in USA is bigger!

Linne --- Thanks! For my area of the US, my house is surprisingly average. I should take some pictures of our neighbors a little bit down the street. Unreal!