Holiday decorating

[Texas Beta]

Are we talking about our homes, or our sorority / fraternity houses?

At home - My step mom has some weird obsession with over decorating for Christmas. She gets some day workers to put up a ton of lights and make stupid life size Christmas cut outs, which high school kids love to target (usually with potatoes). I wish she did the same for Halloween so I could scare the hell outta some little guys.

In front of our house we have this huge tree, I'm not sure what kind of tree it is, but I want to get every inch of it covered in lights. Good thing we have "student workers"


I always thought these were cool, but how much time do people have on their hands! http://www.collegehumor.com/video:16...arch:christmas

[Nieng17]

This will be my first Christmas in Savannah and without snow!!! I had a chance to come off the road for a week and spent it at home with the boyfriend. My boyfriend insisted on a real tree, so we bought one and decorated it in silver and blue ornaments.

To make up for the lack of snow I borrowed a tip from the Martha Stewart website and ironed on fabric homemade snowflakes onto a see-through curtain that covers our deck door and one in the bedroom window.

I also bought some cute silver Holiday decorations from Pier1 and put them all over the house. We also bought a blue and silver ball wreath for our door. I got a little crafty and bought various sized boxes and wrapped them up as gifts and placed them as decorations through-out the apartment. The wrapping papers were different shades of blue and silver.

Christmas and Halloween are my favorite holidays and I usually go a little overboard...my birthday is also on Christmas, I think that's why I love it so much.

[bluefish81]

This is my first year with a tree by myself - last year I was in the process of moving over Christmas, so there was no point.
I decorated the tree in silver, teal and blue balls, with blue and silver ribbon and white lights. The silver star on top is almost too big for the room, or I guess I should say that my tree is too tall - it's 7 and 1/2 feet tall.
The wreath is decorated with silver stuff. And then my centerpiece on my table is also filled with ball ornaments.

Nieng17, if you want some snow, I can send you some!

[Lady Pi Phi]

It'll be Mr. Pi Phi and I's first Christmas in our new apartment (we just moved in together in Seotember).

I love Christmas, he's not really a fan, so I will be doing all the decorating. We have a 6' tree for our little apartment (it's fake...I've only ever had a real tree twice in my life, and Mr. Pi Phi hates the pine smell). I'm doing a silver and blue theme on my tree this year. I have all my decorations for the tree, but I won't be putting it up till the 11th or 12th of December.

The lights for the balcony went up last week, but thet went on yesterday. I can't stand it when Christmas decorations go up too early. I probably get that from my English mother, where the tradition over there was to put the tree up on Christmas Eve and it would stay up for the 12 days of Christmas.

[CPickering]

this will be my first christmas out on my own so i went and bought a stunning white christmas tree and wrapped it with blue lights. i then added a few strategically placed silver/opalescent bulbs to the tree and finished it off with blue garland.

i'm very pleased with the way it turned out.