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https://brain4rent.wordpress.com THE 5 DECORATING STYLES OF CHRISTMAS - OUTDOOR VERSION by Alison Colby-Campbell In my 5+ decades of ogling Christmas decorations, I have learned there are only 5 different styles of Christmas home décor. All else are modifications or blends of these. See for yourself. PT 1 of 5 'CHAMPAGNE BUBBLES' This style I named… Continue reading What are the 5 styles of outdoor Christmas decor?
And it was just me and the tree. I felt I owed the tree some company on its last night with us.
Some Christmas trends raucously holler "Jumped the shark!" The decor that's gone beyond "earnestly seeking attention" to "desperately demanding attention" without even understanding why.
A friend came by with a 6-pack of saws (always have the right tool) to help us bring it down to size while also creating a bonus, pine-scented yule log.
And then the whining begins "it's not a real tree if it's outdoors."
Any strip mall parking lot offers trees for sale now, but as a kid, Christmas tradition included packing the car with 4 kids and dog to build memories at the tree farm. Out in nature, family together, frosty air – a carol in the making except that through some sort of physics and perspective anomaly,… Continue reading No Christmas Tree, No Christmas Trees
Today January 5 between 7 am-8 am, I threw out Christmas.
Don’t want to say I’m God’s ‘favorite’, but after experiencing a string of miracles longer than any lights wrapped round my tree, it’s pretty clear I’m in the top quintile.
I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. ~Charles Dickens
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