Your Christmas Tree and or decorations
that's in your garden?
Yeah, the garden in my ass. :rolleyes:
:rolleyes:
None of these are my trees. This is the Waiting Room in Kansas City's Union Station, all decormatated up for the season, with some chairs and stuff thrown in for some meeting of obviously wealthy women who wore a lot of furs and such shortly before I took this pic Wednesday night.
You have one line of text, and you have eleven lines of location/title/shit.
Dude, what the hell. Fucking change your location. It's been seriously pissing me off, its way too fucking long.
My youngest teen and our tree before decorations.
Yeah, the garden in my ass. :rolleyes:
:rolleyes:
Suggest you don't EVAH fucking moan about people not following "posting directions" in "your" threads again. Just sayin'. You seems to enjoy telling people to piss off out of your threads and yet have no compunction about shitting in other people's. Sorry, Merc, just something that apparently needed spelling out, even though this may not be the best example of the "crime".
Happy whatever, I'll post my tree later when I've finished it.
Nice tree Merc.
With the redeye and the smile and pose, I had to resist the temptation to make a
Satan's Cheerleaders joke.
Something like:
Give me an L and a U and a C........!:p
Happy Holidays:xmashat:
My tree just fell over and smashed a load of baubles/glass balls. Instant karma?
Bwahahahaha
Never mind the tree, rich, what about the daughter? :eek: of course, I can say that with an outside chance of not getting walloped by Merc, being a married mother of 3 and all......
It just doesn't photograph as pretty as it looks in real life...
so, merc....you put the topper on before you do the lights and ornaments???
pragmatic....but....laaaaame.
Looks to me like the lights are on there.... just not on.
Psst, look at the tree thru the window
We were talking about Merc's tree.
Suggest you don't EVAH fucking moan about people not following "posting directions" in "your" threads again. Just sayin'. You seems to enjoy telling people to piss off out of your threads and yet have no compunction about shitting in other people's.
Well, ask an assholeish question, get an assholeish answer. :p
You have one line of text, and you have eleven lines of location/title/shit.
Dude, what the hell. Fucking change your location. It's been seriously pissing me off, its way too fucking long.
That's cuz
you wish you were that creative. :D
so, merc....you put the topper on before you do the lights and ornaments???
pragmatic....but....laaaaame.
Dude, it is 9 feet tall and we always struggle to put on the lights and topper. So this year we put on the lights, the topper, and the base outside while the wife stood on the front steps. It was eaiser for her to reach, she is 5'2" and we had plenty of room to manuver the tangle of lights around the tree.
Very Nice!! Wife and kids are still working on decorations, I will post the finished product in a few days.
Thanks. We like lots of plain miniature glass balls, lots of tiny lights and silver tinsel and lametta. No fancy stylish stuff and no kid-creations (when I can get away with it :lol:) but very very sparkly :D BTW the ceramic sun and swirly orange thing are two of my pieces.
... So this year we put on the lights, the topper, and the base outside while the wife stood on the front steps. It was eaiser for her to reach, she is 5'2" and we had plenty of room to manuver the tangle of lights around the tree.
Ah, beauty and brains too. No, not you.
@Monster... I like your boiling octopus.
Thanks bruce, we'd been looking fo a name for that one.
The other one is called the Flaming Dooberry: (also seen
Here)
My youngest teen and our tree before decorations.
Ya' know, you mighit think I'm just a creepy pediovoyeur by now, but she's real perdy. :D
Ya' know, you mighit think I'm just a creepy pediovoyeur by now, but she's real perdy. :D
Not at all, she is beautiful. Just don't try to contact her. :D
:lol2:
See what startin those "other threads" got ya Drax?
It just doesn't photograph as pretty as it looks in real life...
I think it looks pretty great, but it does kind of throw me for a loop what with all the tropicals right there outside the window.
Those are really cool, monster. I like how you propped Flaming Dooberry on some feet.
Thanks bruce, we'd been looking fo a name for that one.
The other one is called the Flaming Dooberry: (also seen Here)
Ya' know, you mighit think I'm just a creepy pediovoyeur by now, but she's real perdy. :D
MIGHT??
Those are really cool, monster. I like how you propped Flaming Dooberry on some feet.
thanks (they are attached)
I tend to be a geometric hand-builder, so these pieces were me challenging myself to be more -erm- freeform? the professional-looking photo of the dooberry is actually used to advertise the ceramics program :blush:
We still haven't gotten our tree yet.
Monster, I loooove the sun! Great work!
I thought they were probably attached, monster. Do you enjoy handbuilding more than wheel throwing? When I was younger I studied ceramics briefly in college. I loved handbuilding...more than wheel throwing. I couldn't understand what all the fuss was about with the wheel. Thats pretty neat that your piece is used as an example for advertisement.
I think it looks pretty great, but it does kind of throw me for a loop what with all the tropicals right there outside the window.
That's why they call it an Arizona Room...Lots of glass, skylights and exposure on the north side of the house. In Florida, they call it a Florida room. I don't know why.:D
We bought one Sunday. My parents waited for the chicks to return to the nest to make it a family affair. Strung with popcorn too! Wwe're so cheesy.
Popcorn? Cool!
I did popcorn and cranberries for the tree and garlands around the room once.
ONCE! I swore never to string popcorn again.
Done. This years theme, all hand made ornaments, including stuff from the kids when they were younger.
I like that tree, looks old-fashioned.
When I hear "old fashioned tree" it reminds me of the year I lived in Germany. Our German neighbors had real candles on their tree. I was astounded, because it's such a fire hazard. They have these little candle holders that clip to the branches and hold special little candles very securely. The trees there were thinner than you see here, so there were plenty of spots where you could clip a candle without lighting the branches above it on fire.
I just did
a quick Google image search and turned up this picture of a German tree with real candles. You can tell they are real flames, because they all point up, even when the candles are crooked. You'd think there would be more fires, but they don't leave the trees unattended.
Wow, even if you were standing right there, if the tree went up in flames there isn't much you could do besides grab the gifts.
I mean you could probably stop the house from burning down, but the tree and that room would be very messy.
I have a set of those clips and candles. I used to put them on the tree but never lit them.
Popcorn? Cool!
I did popcorn and cranberries for the tree and garlands around the room once.
ONCE! I swore never to string popcorn again.
It's great when you're sitting around watching those Christmas classics.
This is about the extent of ours this year
With 2 additions From a Friend !!
My fairy/angel has a real candle. Not lit, mostly.
The thing is, when you only put the tree up on Christmas Eve (as per tradition in a lot of Europe), it's generally still very fresh and wet, so not a huge fire hazard. And, as pointed out, they are pretty sparse. Also, the candles are pretty small and were they to fall, the chances of them staying alight are not huge. But still..... :eek: :lol:
Great pics everyone! :santa:
I put pics of our tree and some choice ornaments in a Picasa album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/sstarke/Christmas2007
Here's the tree itself for those who don't like to click :)
Finally got around to taking one of ours.
Tree, from the top of the stairs so it's a weird perspective. Also the ceiling is at an angle. The tree is 8 ft.
House. You can't see how the bottom row twinkles at odd programmable intervals. Note above tree in the window:
That's the way to confuse the neighbors.
Wow, those are really nice displays UT!
(We didn't end up getting a tree this year :( )
There's still time. I bet they're about $2 at Lowes now. Or just cruise the streets -someone's probably already thrown one out by now that you could squeak a few more days out of!
(great English there, huh? :rolleyes:)
With and without flash:
why do the lights look like they only go up the middle of the tree. Interesting way to do it.
Obviously it would look better at night, but now is when I have free time, so...
I just like the look. Plus, it casts a cool shadow. Plus, it leaves the branches available for ornaments, and keeps the wires invisible.
Those presents are incredibly neatly stacked, fob -OCD much? ;)
Er... [size=1]I guess I shouldn't mention that the different patterns of wrapping paper indicate what branch of the family the gift goes to, so we can quickly and easily pull out what we need for the three separate events we'll be participating in? [/size]
Well, we kinda assumed that. :)
With and without flash:
Is that a good candidate of HDR processing?
Er... [size=1]I guess I shouldn't mention that the different patterns of wrapping paper indicate what branch of the family the gift goes to, so we can quickly and easily pull out what we need for the three separate events we'll be participating in? [/size]
No, don't spoil my delusions..... (nice tree btw)
Is that a good candidate of HDR processing?
Not completely, as the curtain is closed in one, but not the other, but I do have multiple shots each way.
But the night-time flash mode does do a bit of mini-HDR automatically, by exposing the background for a long time, and anything within reach of the flash for a short time, at higher intensity.
Beautiful trees, I feel quite privileged to be let into your houses (HINT - more Dwellar video tours!) But in general they are HUUUUUGE!!!!
Didn't take a pic of "ours" this year - with me penniless I wasn't expecting one, but when HM turned up with one early December I was so excited. When he hadn't decorated it in 4 days I undertook the task (which was a treat when I was growing up, hence my 4 day delay).
First the lights shorted out and he said he would sort it. And get a proper holder from the loft (attic) to water the tree.
Yesterday he admitted his failure re both lights, watering and being too cheap to buy a non-shedding tree. We have some sticks in a bucket and a pile of needles that need to be swept up daily. Ah well - I have a cool tree topper now thanks to Secret Santa!
He was here!
My dad is so awesome! We had intended to cut our own tree this year as usual, but the weather was awful every time we both had a day off...eventually it got to be too late...so he found this fake tree he had in storage, and decorated it for me so I wouldn't be bummed. :D
ohhhh, look at your OCD Clod :p
Great trees everyone
Razz - your dad gets a gold star! That was really thoughtful of him!
Razz - your dad gets a gold star! That was really thoughtful of him!
Fifty-odd years ago, my wife and I celebrated our first year of marriage, and my mother-in-law earned her first of many gold stars. We were in Texas where the piney woods make for puny X-mas trees, and we were broke.
I was astounded when a tree wrapped in burlap arrived via U.S. Postal Service by my Mother-In-Law all the way from Montana. Although it made my wife a bit homesick each year, this became an annual gift to us as we finished our stint in Dallas, and moved on to Boston, and then Buffalo.
Thats a great story LL.
A couple years ago I was too broke to buy a tree. I came home one day to find one in my living room. Apparently my kids got together with some friends & bought one. Knowing how much I love having a tree, it really made me happy & proud.
Pic 1) Our tree (Dan picked it out) and a few favorite ornaments.
Pic 2) The wooden mushroom was turned by my cousin. It was a gift from my sister.
Pic 3) This was made from a dwellar a few years ago.
As she has always been responsible for the stars and whatnot, Lil Pete painted Groot on cardboard for our topper this year.
Mushrooms! Of course!
Ha, yes. I have a growing collection of mushroom ornaments. I lost my favorite one last year. It was ridiculously fragile and took a tumble from which it did not survive. My sister gave it to me when I turned 25.
First year in a long while that we didn't decorate at all! We knew we were going to be gone in mid December for a week in California and then up to Seattle for 5 days over Christmas so we just blew it off. Kind of nice not to have to deal with putting it all away.
Oh, I did decorate the Land Rover with garland and Christmas lights. I use a power inverter to light them up!
As she has always been responsible for the stars and whatnot, Lil Pete painted Groot on cardboard for our topper this year.
That should scare the squirrels out of the tree. :lol2:
Classic tree 2016. FTR - This tree went up and was decorated with my daughter and Dan. The next day I got a panicked text from him stating "Tree Down" Sooooooooooooooooooooo pissed. Lost a bunch of irreplaceable ornaments - some decades old. Got the damn thing back up and then realized the top 1/2 of lights were dead. Moar pissed. Went bulb to bulb and got them back on. Dan redid the decorating.
You all may notice a few dwellar SS items in the pic. The Santa ornaments were from Jim there are several items from limey and also BigV. Thank you all again. :) My SS gifts are under the tree as well as the gift & card from Sundae.
Did anyone ever admit how the tree fell down?
Has it really been over 2 years since GotG?
Did anyone ever admit how the tree fell down?
My guess is faulty installation, but I have a cat so I'm blaming him. :cool:
And there is a very cool mushroom night light in the other corner of this room ;)
It still works? That's awesome!
The cats told me the tree fainted. :yesnod:
Actually it was a little more complicated...
Pete made the star since the art kid is living and working down cellar way. *sigh* The world keeps turning.
Very nice. I love fat trees.
Many festive!
Much pretty!
Now the days get longer. Yay!
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Tree is ready. Kids coming tomorrow to decorate. My favorite thing.
Our other tree ...
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Getting there... I'm not in the wrapping mood.
Our two small trees. They're around a foot high or so . .
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Annual piggy back photo
It still works? That's awesome!
FTR - Still working. LOVE the nightlight. Visitors notice and comment about it all the time.
Yay! It's the gift that keeps on giving!
