*The Holly and the Ivy* and the You Know What 2013 Chatter Thread.

pixtotts

Wuvvies You are so organised! I hand make all my cards but I can pretty much guarantee I wont start till Dec and wont finish until 2 mins before I have to leave to deliver them ... I'm my own worst nightmare!
Choccymoose I'm a little OCD about colours... My bookcase isn't arranged by title or author but it is organised by colour, its like a rainbow of books across my room
The colour of our decorations always get dictated by the fairy.. My mum gets really attached to the fairies! But then on the other hand our house is very neutral, white, magnolia, creams and browns. So we're pretty safe to go with any colours

Lounge - silver fairy - tree silver and white and wood decorations sneak in especially if they are owls and silver on the ceiling and garland to match -
The room is kind of neutral browns so it fits in...

Hallway is white and adopted old lounge fairy which was gold and had gold and red theme, hallway has turned into the place for anything, its like crazy Christmas grotto... red and gold on the ceiling (used to go in the lounge), nativity on the bookcase, any none silver or white presents go under there (gift wrapped stuff or things we receive), and all of the decorations we made as children

But I get free range in my brown and cream bedroom... and guess what I have a brown, gold, and cream tree . The gold has to be added in for sentimental reasons my first artificial tree was bought for me by my nanny and she gave me her spare fairy who is stood on a gold star

My sisters tree is a crazy mash up of colours which I prefer not to look at I'm pretty sure she is colour blind and doesn't know what she's doing... it hurts my eyes lol.

Sorry that's probably more of an essay than you wanted... I got excited...

You say you don't like red and gold... have to admit I'm not a fan either... I don't know why... I prefer red with silver or white, and gold with browns (obviously thats how my tree is :P) but have you considered just gold? that could look really elegant! I searched gold Christmas on pinterest (I'm addicted! http://www.pinterest.com/pixietotts/boards/ ) and gold and white came up that looked really pretty!

choccymoose

pixtotts wrote: »

Wuvvies You are so organised! I hand make all my cards but I can pretty much guarantee I wont start till Dec and wont finish until 2 mins before I have to leave to deliver them ... I'm my own worst nightmare!
Choccymoose I'm a little OCD about colours... My bookcase isn't arranged by title or author but it is organised by colour, its like a rainbow of books across my room
The colour of our decorations always get dictated by the fairy.. My mum gets really attached to the fairies! But then on the other hand our house is very neutral, white, magnolia, creams and browns. So we're pretty safe to go with any colours

Lounge - silver fairy - tree silver and white and wood decorations sneak in especially if they are owls and silver on the ceiling and garland to match -
The room is kind of neutral browns so it fits in...

Hallway is white and adopted old lounge fairy which was gold and had gold and red theme, hallway has turned into the place for anything, its like crazy Christmas grotto... red and gold on the ceiling (used to go in the lounge), nativity on the bookcase, any none silver or white presents go under there (gift wrapped stuff or things we receive), and all of the decorations we made as children

But I get free range in my brown and cream bedroom... and guess what I have a brown, gold, and cream tree . The gold has to be added in for sentimental reasons my first artificial tree was bought for me by my nanny and she gave me her spare fairy who is stood on a gold star

My sisters tree is a crazy mash up of colours which I prefer not to look at I'm pretty sure she is colour blind and doesn't know what she's doing... it hurts my eyes lol.

Sorry that's probably more of an essay than you wanted... I got excited...

You say you don't like red and gold... have to admit I'm not a fan either... I don't know why... I prefer red with silver or white, and gold with browns (obviously thats how my tree is :P) but have you considered just gold? that could look really elegant! I searched gold Christmas on pinterest (I'm addicted! http://www.pinterest.com/pixietotts/boards/ ) and gold and white came up that looked really pretty!

Wow thanks lol, we only do the tree in the lounge, the kids trees are pre decorated. They can add paperchains etc to their rooms and they get free reign. Its strange saying I dont like red and gold on the tree when I am going to do my lounge red gold and cream, but thats me :rotfl:

May move the teal ans silver into the dining room as that is purple and cream, so can add a few purples and have it as jewell colours, which leaves me with maybe just the gold, liking the idea will have a look at pinterest and run it past the others
STill got to decide real or fake yet cos of puppy and new woodburner :eek:

alja

Nanamia wrote: »

Alja my pleasure I'm really pleased for you. Hope the shops aren't too busy tomorrow afternoon for you, the thing is they'll be far worse in weeks to come wont they? Is tomorrow your charity shop day too? xxx

Yes, yesterday was my charity shop day it's always interesting to see what's new and of course, as always, I came home with bargains! Bought a lovely chunky knit cardi/jacket for £5, a long white lightweight top for holidays next year £4 and a wh!te stuff dress for £4 all looked new and unworn. Then from another charity shop I picked up a brand new t*pshop skirt £4.50 and a cardi £3.00 which looked unworn too. (Our shop has been doing well with selling the Christmas cards!)

I actually didn't get the bus to the shops in the end yesterday! I just simply couldn't be bothered and I couldn't today either! So, instead I've had a lovely lie-in this morning and really relaxed over the weekend. I think I needed it though

My S*perdrug order came yesterday afternoon though, so that was good. Bought some maoam sweets for my Christmas party, a cranberry and pomegranate bath foam, and a few essentials (toothpaste, mouthwash, shampoo etc.). However, one thing we bought was a wash in, wash out hair dye of theirs but one of the bottles was slightly open and had started to leak out!

I called customer services to tell them what had happened and the lovely lady has arranged for a whole new lot of my order to be sent to me! Was very impressed.

I shall spend the rest of my day decluttering my room and possibly rearranging a few things to make life easier! Think I will take a look on P!nterest too for some Christmas party ideas have a lovely Sunday everyone!

Totality

My first visit to the Christmas forum today. This thread alone is amazing. Some great ideas!

clayton79

Popped in the range for some bedding.... Christmas stock galore!! Not even looked at bedding yet.

04624181

Freespirit – my back is pretty much the same at the moment. I am awaiting my appt to go in as a day case for a caudal epidural( pain killing injection in spine) and a epidurogram. (before they inject the pain killing injection in between my vertebrae they will inject dye to allow a series of xrays to be taken to help radiologist to see if there is any scar tissue)

Own my Own – love Greenleafs ! he looks fab and will definately try the cup wreath x I too have not completed last week list so this week I aim to sort out mine, hubbys and kids wardrobes and drawers. Have managed to list some items on ebay though and intend to carry on.

Debndot – my daughter is just the same with cooking. I have done her a cooking hamper for Christmas with her own rolling pin, spoons, spatula. Chefs apron, hat and tea towel from b&m with gingerbread men on, its too cute. Also got her a kids recipe book and some sprinkles for on top of cakes. I want to do choc slabs this yeas too x

Ruth_Honey- mincemeat flapjack sounds lovely, adding cranberries sounds nice too. Please could you share the recipe as I seem to have missed it?

Loubylou1982 – Hello and welcome, just pop in and chat when you can, its great fun here

Pinknfluffy- glad the tablets are working for you x thanks for the heads up on the Christmas movies

Fluffysox- How lovely to get married near Christmas, your trip/honeymoon sounded lovely. Im still debating whether to order the kirstie book x not sure what to do haha. Love your pictures! The decorations and flowers are lovely

Nanamia- THANK YOU !!! I am determined to make this as a surprise with all his favourite sweets on top xx Of course you can have a look. I will take some piccies or I can pm you my facebook page if you like?

Spendless- I feel exactly the same about food at the moment. Potatoes are sooo expensive. I bought a 10kg bag of potatoes for £3 off the market and myself, mum and bestfriend split it between us. Potatoes were costing me over 3 a week and now I have more potatoes for £1 each person!

Flowfly- wow, bury,Bolton and botany bay in one day! You must be the energiser bunny haha

Choccymoose- that bracelet is gorgeous. I say just chuck some more colours on your tree, I have all the retro funky colours on mine, the brighter the better haha

Mrsinvisible- sounds like you had a lovely time in London. Your advent boxes sound fab, hope you will share a pic when you are done

mandco

actually manged all my tasks this wk havent decided on next wks yet so will pop back later with those

choccymoose wrote: »

Do your decs on the tree coordinate with your room decoration, all my decs are teal and silver as my lounge is teal and silver. However the end of this month it will be cream, red and gold! I don't really like red and gold on a christmas tree I am a bit of a colour rebel, shall I just add a few different colours on to it?
experiment with them First

we have neutral colours so any colour scheme works luckily.no-one else I know uses it but red/gold just seems most xmassy to me I just remember going to see the xmas lights one yr and there was this amazing huge xmas tree all decked out in red/gold and that image has stayed with me.
we did pink/purple/teal last yr at the kids request and it looked beautiful but just felt like something was missing so plan on going back to red/gold for the main tree this yr.

mrsinvisible no wonder your tried you manged a huge amount when did you have time to sleep? glad you enjoyed it. the advent boxes sound great I'm sure everyone will love them

I will try and finish my post later once/if ds decides to take a nap coz he really really needs one

pateroo

pinknfluffy28 wrote: »

Have completed a grand total of 0 tasks from last weeks lists

Have just finished reading "meet me under the mistletoe" and for anyone looking for christmas reads I would defiantly recommend, quite a feel good type story, and plenty of christmas talk!
Also, the smurfs christmas carol dvd is available to pre-order for just £4.74 from amazon. Not sure if its any good, but for any other smurf fans it would make a nice little elf or xmas eve hamper gift.

I've just ordered the kindle fire so I think ill make this my ditsy download/read! X

freespirit66

Nanamia wrote: »

Freespirit aww bless you and DC, I'm sure the stag isn't jinxed maybe you've got a "grumpy old man!" Haha, sure he'll be happy when he's settled Im so glad you are feeling better, bout blooming time! The football was brilliant thanks, you may have heard we've two big ish teams here in Manchester ha but we are Stockport County supporters (real football) anyway they've had a really bad few years so we are well used to big losses and failure. Still love it of course. Today though oh my word, a win, a huge win 4-0. A very very rare occurrence Great to watch xxx

Yayy good result, i for some reason imagined you and DH watching Man United, hope you have a good day today

Flowfy wrote: »

I did the first day of the cd yesterday. absolutely worn out as I was trying to occupy myself from 9-4. I went to bury, a retail park outside Bolton and Botany Bay in Chorley. not impressed with most of that but was impressed with the 2 large pumpkin spice lattes I had from starbucks during the day.:T
got another day of it today. don't know where I am going to go as there is less choice on a sunday. I was that exhausted yesterday when I got in, I didn't know whether I was on this earth or fullers.
he is doing stuff for both days next weekend. a last night of the proms on Saturday and a jazz festival on the sunday. if fact Monday is our only free day this week, due to rehearsals etc. he got asked to dep in the following Saturday (19th) but he is already out all sunday in Cheshire doing it, so I said no. I can't do full weekends, week after week. he is fine, mind you. came in and played xbox all night with his mates anyway dh is back next weekend at least so that is some help with the driving and also company, because it doesn't half get lonely wandering about, trying to fill in your time. he made some excellent musical contacts this weekend however, so it has been worth it.
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Oh i remember those days well running around here there and everywhere with the kids, trying to think what to do while they were doing what they were doing because it wasnt worth driving home and back again

Pinksteps wrote: »

Tasks this week is to finish last weeks tasks
Tomorrow DS is having his legs cast so he can have the splints made and whilst out I am going to pop round to the craft bank which is close to the hospital and rejoin.
I have middle DS popping round later so I may tug on his heart strings and see if he is willing to paint the bathroom.

Good luck to DS hope everything goes well tomorrow PINKSTEPS
AMEY hope you have a good day at work
OMO ha i thought mine was jinxed :rotfl:yes they bought a black one it is lovely, can you believe i have nothing to put it all up with, no hammer, no picture hooks or nails, i might eventually get it all up and show a piccie, hope you got to walk out with Robbie, i have finished all my tasks, now need to have a think what can be done this week
WUVVIES hope you have a successful day shopping
PINKNFLUFFY thankyou
CHOCCYMOOSE i am changing this year, i usually have ornaments and baubles from wherever we have visited, but have decided to start again (another reminder of ex gone ) so i am going very plain red, white and green baubles, not sure what it will look like yet but what i have in my head looks good my room is cream, conservatory is our ice palace everything white silver and glass and again is cream, kitchen used to be teal, purple but now it is red, black and cream i cant have that :rotfl:
MRSINVISIBLE oh your trip sounds lovely, you really did fit a lot in, your advent boxes sound great
TOTALITY hello and welcome to our thread
CLAYTON ooh thankyou for tip
04624181 oh dear poor you, as i said before it worked for my DD2 so i hope it works for you, will keep my fingers crossed

Ruth_honey

04624181 wrote: »

Freespirit – my back is pretty much the same at the moment. I am awaiting my appt to go in as a day case for a caudal epidural( pain killing injection in spine) and a epidurogram. (before they inject the pain killing injection in between my vertebrae they will inject dye to allow a series of xrays to be taken to help radiologist to see if there is any scar tissue)

Own my Own – love Greenleafs ! he looks fab and will definately try the cup wreath x I too have not completed last week list so this week I aim to sort out mine, hubbys and kids wardrobes and drawers. Have managed to list some items on ebay though and intend to carry on.

Debndot – my daughter is just the same with cooking. I have done her a cooking hamper for Christmas with her own rolling pin, spoons, spatula. Chefs apron, hat and tea towel from b&m with gingerbread men on, its too cute. Also got her a kids recipe book and some sprinkles for on top of cakes. I want to do choc slabs this yeas too x

Ruth_Honey- mincemeat flapjack sounds lovely, adding cranberries sounds nice too. Please could you share the recipe as I seem to have missed it?

Loubylou1982 – Hello and welcome, just pop in and chat when you can, its great fun here

Pinknfluffy- glad the tablets are working for you x thanks for the heads up on the Christmas movies

Fluffysox- How lovely to get married near Christmas, your trip/honeymoon sounded lovely. Im still debating whether to order the kirstie book x not sure what to do haha. Love your pictures! The decorations and flowers are lovely

Nanamia- THANK YOU !!! I am determined to make this as a surprise with all his favourite sweets on top xx Of course you can have a look. I will take some piccies or I can pm you my facebook page if you like?

Spendless- I feel exactly the same about food at the moment. Potatoes are sooo expensive. I bought a 10kg bag of potatoes for £3 off the market and myself, mum and bestfriend split it between us. Potatoes were costing me over 3 a week and now I have more potatoes for £1 each person!

Flowfly- wow, bury,Bolton and botany bay in one day! You must be the energiser bunny haha

Choccymoose- that bracelet is gorgeous. I say just chuck some more colours on your tree, I have all the retro funky colours on mine, the brighter the better haha

Mrsinvisible- sounds like you had a lovely time in London. Your advent boxes sound fab, hope you will share a pic when you are done

I used this recipe...
http://www.mostlyeating.com/christmas-flapjack
I didn't have rum or brandy, so I used Calvados.