Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly!
Nov. 30th, 2009 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
windinthemaplesThis four-day weekend was our best ever. I cannot say enough about the benefits of staying home for once. We got so much accomplished, spent glorious amounts of time together, and were able to celebrate the transition from autumn harvest to winter celebrations. We dined! We cried through A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa! We wrapped dozens and dozens of gifts and bought dozens more. We're pretty much set on that whole Yule gifty-gift thing and that gives us the luxury of an entire month to relax and enjoy the fruits of our labors. :) Last year, we didn't even have a tree up in our last-minute scramble, so this feels really good.
We use and reuse an artificial Yule tree but this year we brought home some greenery from the florist--fresh-cut boughs of holly and a beautiful evergreen and pinecone wall arrangement of sorts that just has to be misted on occasion. Sunday, we hit up our storage facility and dug around for that box of ornaments and a few other seasonal odds and ends. Here are the festive results of our decorating!
You can see a lot more photos, including close-ups of some of our ornaments, at our Flickr page.
We use and reuse an artificial Yule tree but this year we brought home some greenery from the florist--fresh-cut boughs of holly and a beautiful evergreen and pinecone wall arrangement of sorts that just has to be misted on occasion. Sunday, we hit up our storage facility and dug around for that box of ornaments and a few other seasonal odds and ends. Here are the festive results of our decorating!
You can see a lot more photos, including close-ups of some of our ornaments, at our Flickr page.
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Date: 2009-11-30 07:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-12-01 03:54 am (UTC)We just put up our tree to an interesting array of classic and modern holiday tunes with some random "shoot me I hate Christmas" song (promptly removed from the last.fm queue, ugh ugh). It was pleasant and it's pretty to sit among so many glowing lights. I'm glad you were able to get yours up this year, finish your gifting early, and now you, D, and Graeme can happily play beneath the twinkling lights. <3
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Date: 2009-12-01 06:57 pm (UTC)The stockings are needlepoint and were a gift from my Aunt a few years ago. We love them.
I'd love to see photos of your tree. :)
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Date: 2009-12-01 07:01 pm (UTC)I love the needlepoint work! So much more personal. All our stockings at my parents' house are hand knit for our family save for one pet stocking, so I refuse to buy from a store. Maybe a handmade one, of course, but none of these "everyone in the city owns it" kind of stockings.
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Date: 2009-12-01 03:05 pm (UTC)I hope you and your family have the most joyful, relaxing, cozy holiday. ♥
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Date: 2009-12-01 06:58 pm (UTC)I wish the same for you--lots of warm tea and soft quilts and good books and jingling bells and moonlit walks on crunching snow. :D
{{hugs}}
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Date: 2009-12-01 06:59 pm (UTC)Are you going to be decorating? :)
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Date: 2009-12-01 11:17 pm (UTC)Love you both! Happy Anniversary!
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Date: 2009-12-02 01:18 pm (UTC)