Not too early start holiday decorating

Since I have off work on Monday for the Veterans' Day holiday, I will be spending this Monday in the kitchen....decorating for Christmas! I love the kitchen at Christmastime, with all the Winterberry dishes and all the festive decorations throughout. It makes the kitchen look so beautiful and it really puts me in the mood to do my holiday baking. 

We'll probably put the trees up the weekend after Thanksgiving, although I may wait to do the TWT (Tacky White Tree) in the kitchen until about a week or so before Christmas. Tabby particularly likes the TWT and she's slowly destroying the branches by trying to park her big butt in the tree. I can't tell you how many blue balls she broke last year, even though I really twisted the ornament hangers onto the branches. I need to get more blue balls this year. I really love my TWT and, if it wasn't for Tabby, I'd probably have Rick put it up for me this weekend and I'd go ahead and decorate that, too, on Monday. The kitchen just isn't finished without that TWT.

The Monday after Thanksgiving is when Rick will be outside, putting the lights on many of the trees in the front yard and putting out some of our lawn decorations. I hope it stays relatively warm until he finishes up, although he's very used to being in really cold weather as he used to deer hunt for many years. Cold doesn't bother him like it does me.

I love decorating the house for the holidays. And I will continue to use the Winterberry dishes until around the beginning of March. It's more of a winter season pattern than a Christmas pattern, so I can use it for a longer period of time. And it even looks beautiful for our Thanksgiving dinner table, too.

How about you? When will you start decorating for Christmas? And will you take pictures to show us? Please? I'd love to see what you do.   

Half the time our decorations don't go up till Christmas Eve, because I'm especially busy with school stuff in December. We have a tiny plug-in desktop Christmas tree that I usually pull out during Advent, but all the other things have to wait till the weekend before Christmas at the earliest.

Last year I put up the tree early because it was clear it was going to be Jamie's last Christmas, and the tree was always the highlight of his year. I have a feeling that Mogli is going to be very hard on the tree and other decorations, so they'll probably go up Christmas Eve and come down on Boxing Day. :lol3:

l'm putting mine up early this year. lt usually goes up right after Remembrance Day, so the 12th, but the last 2 years l ended up putting it up late, right before Christmas. The trouble with that is l like to leave it up way into January. Okay, February. Yes, l left the tree up into February last year 

I hate taking it down, so when it goes up early, by the time New Year is here, l'm ready for it to be gone.

l just got back from buying car tires, so while l was there l HAD to browse the aisles   so l got a couple of nice Christmasy things, and a wreath (fake) for the front door. 

I have no kitchen table cause my apartment is small. I don't think we are decorating this year again. Why should I ?

When I moved here last year, I gave all my christmas decorations away. If I have the money and lights go on sale in time for Thanksgiving I might decorate.

I know for sure that my husband and I will celebrate Thanksgiving by ourselves.

I usually host my family for Thanksgiving, so no Christmas decorations start going up until the week after Thanksgiving. I put up a fair amount of "Fall" decorations, both inside and outside, so it takes a while to take them all down and pack them away.

We haven't bothered with putting up a tree or even decorating, with the exception of Christmas lights on the house  

and in the tree's of the backyard. I think we might just do it this year though. We probably won't be able to visit 

family this year in Peterborough, so might as well stay home and decorate, decorate, decorate..... 

I never put up anything Xmas before Remembrance Day - just out of respect. I do find it very disrespectful otherwise.
 

Afterward, it usually starts around Mid-November.
 

Christmas tree goes up in December. We used to put it up on Christmas Eve out of Scandanavian tradition, but we realized it felt too short of a time to actually enjoy the tree. So we cheated a wee bit and put it up earlier in the last couple years 

We don't decorate until the middle of December (husband's preference) but sometimes we do it a week or so earlier if he doesn't protest too much. I just bought some Christmas fabrics for toss pillows for the sofa but don't know when I will be able to make them (probably December lol).

I love your TWT and don't think it's T at all.

I just bought my christmas tree today! (A fake one, haha). Because it's our first christmas together living together we decided to buy ourselves one to keep through the years. We'll probably put it up around the 10th of December.

It is WAY too early for me to even think about Christmas. I do my best to ignore all of it at least until after Thanksgiving.

I do not do decorating but do have a tree I leave up year long and turn on occasionally.  I love to have that lit as opposed to the room light on.  My mom is VERY into decorating and cards.  She starts around mid november and leaves it up till mid January

catsallaround said:

 
I do not do decorating but do have a tree I leave up year long and turn on occasionally.  I love to have that lit as opposed to the room light on.  My mom is VERY into decorating and cards.  She starts around mid november and leaves it up till mid January

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My mom has a year-round tree.  It's a fake white one, about 3' tall I guess.  She decorates it for every holiday or season!  Pretty cool.  She's probably just taken down the Halloween ornaments and is putting Thanksgiving ones on it now.  

We usually don't decorate at all for Christmas.  But this year I'm kind of in the mood and we'll probably rent a live tree for the season. 

This was the extent of my "decorating" last year, stockings for the fur-kids, Zoe, Rico and Ozzy.  LOL.  

Hey--I just realized I need to make four more stockings this year, for the newbies!  

I usually decorate the first weekend in December. I'm not sure about this year though with a 14 month old who is very curious. 

I can't stand the idea of Christmas right now!  I was sick for my favorite holiday (Halloween), and am sick again with the same thing, so I feel as if I didn't have Halloween. I did take the decorations down yesterday.

I do have to think about Christmas now, though--we have to do the family Christmas the day after Thanksgiving! Because of DH's pay cut at his new job, we may not exchange nor accept gifts this year (fine by me!). We've also had a lot of unexpected expenses last month. We skip Thanksgiving, because the family thing is always that Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. We spend that day cooking and cleaning.

I may not put up the big tree this year--we have a rambunctious new kitten. On Black Friday, for DH's family, I may put up a small fake one, then put it away.

I picked up my Christmas Tree from the post office today.  I have to figure out where I'm going to set it up. 

I spent the morning re-arranging the kitchen for the holidays. Must've made 50 trips down and up those basement steps today. But it's as done as it's going to get for now. We'll do more Thanksgiving weekend.

Rick came home for work this afternoon, walked into the kitchen and sang, "Deck the shelves with plates of Winterberry!"   (My holiday dishes are the Pfaltzgraff Winterberry pattern.)

We're going to have a special guide this year about cat-themed holiday decorations. Mostly tree ornaments, but other stuff too, including a Kitty Menorah  It's almost ready but not published just yet. I'll post a link here once the guide goes live.

No tree this year, with 2 young kittens in the apartment it wouldn't stand a chance. Do think I may decorate the balcony, put a wreath on the door. Other than that probably not too much else.

Spent  Veterans Day dangling (at times) from two stories up, risking life and limb in my annual quest to bring merriment to the neighborhood (lol). Feeling a bit like Clark Griswald.  And now, one of the reindeer won't light up!  This could take days to troubleshoot!  Oh well-- gotta love Christmas