Decorating for Christmas can be a chore or a lot of fun depending on your outlook. Pretty much our approach to Christmas decorating is to keep it simple.
I’m not a crafty person, so me making Christmas decorations is never going to happen, unless they were dead simple like a couple of Michele’s suggestions. At the recent Christmas ladies night our church held, all I managed to do was provide amusement for the other ladies at our table. That’s okay, I figure you do the things you can and don’t worry about the others.
I’m looking forward to putting up the new exquisite Christmas tableaux, which depicts the birth of Jesus. This will probably go in pride of place for the moment on the coffee table where people can view it no matter where they sit in the lounge room. Later it may go on the dining table. The next will be the nativity set which we have had for many years. Being made of china it is carefully packed away each year ready for the next year. It is usually the first thing we put up, but this year I think the Christmas tableau might just get the nod.
Not that we have got as far as decorating yet. Neither of us is a fan of having Christmas decorations up too long, so it will probably be sometime this week or next.
Then it will be a few lights along with a star and a bell for the lounge room window which faces the street and a wreath for the front door, which I didn’t make but bought last year after the one we had finally got past looking attractive. Then some baskets filled with pine cones and tinsel, a few blank branches to make a tree for the cards to hang on and that’s about it till the real tree goes up. That won’t happen till a week before. Real Christmas trees and summer weather are not a good combination and I’ve never been able to come at the idea of the artificial Christmas trees.
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