Posts Tagged ‘Christmas decorations’
Posted by terrepruitt on January 4, 2025
Don’t worry, I will not continue to post everyday. I just wanted to post a bunch of my Christmas decorations pictures and then I keep having little thoughts. Yesterday I had already posted my Friday Photo and I had a thought: It was dark. It had been dark a lot of December and so far a couple of days in January and I LOVE IT! As soon as I realized it was dark I ran around turning on all the Christmas lights. Now, I don’t mean DARK, I just mean, not sunny. I love that it has been not sunny so much that I have been able to turn on the lights. I think I mentioned it in another post because our Christmas tree looks like a dark blob on my Zoom classes, so the darker the day the better because then the Christmas tree lights show. So just one more picture (I think). All the lights are on in the late afternoon.
(From left to right) We have the tree, the garland, the lighted jar, the lighted cat, and the metal tree.
Posted in Misc | Tagged: Christmas decorations, Christmas lights, Christmas Tree, December 2024, gray weather, January 2025, lights on daytime, not sunny | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on January 2, 2025
Many of you may have heard of SAD, I posted about it in February of 2012. According to the Mayo Clinic’s website “Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that’s related to changes in seasons — seasonal affective disorder (SAD) begins and ends at about the same times every year. If you’re like most people with SAD, your symptoms start in the fall and continue into the winter months, sapping your energy and making you feel moody.” If you have wintertime SAD the symptoms usually disappear in the spring.
I have a different kind of SAD, I love winter so it is not a depression of the CHANGING of the season, it is the ENDING of the HOLIDAY season. I get sad when it ends. I love all the decorations, I get sad when I have to take my Christmas decorations down and pack them away for another year. It is a bummer when we don’t have fun Christmas lights to light up the living space. I think that is one reason I like to keep “Christmas” up as long as possible. I miss the decorations and what goes along with them—the festive feelings. To me it seems like a collective vibe. People are anticipating parties and time off, and when it is over, it is as if the energy goes down.
I feel the same way when local sporting teams are in a championship game. I don’t care about sports at all, but when a local team is going to a game of all games the city seems alive with positive energy. And when they lose it is like a blanket over things.
So, I think I have a form of SAD . . . but for the Holidays. My SAD can be helped by keeping Christmas decorations up, but I still miss the collective energy.
What about you? How do you feel about taking things down?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: Christmas, Christmas decorations, Christmas lights, Holidays, positive vibe, SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder | 6 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 23, 2024
I said in a previous post I take a lot of pictures of our Christmas Tree ornaments. I don’t normally post them all, but this year, I am and not only the ornaments, but the Christmas decorations. There are actually less decorations this year because I am hesitant to put tape on the newly painted walls and I didn’t get my ceiling hooks up. But still, it is festive!
This is a sweet angel night light. She is so pretty. I love her!
And while this includes pictures of the tree this is not the tree pictures post. And there will be at least one more post of ornament pictures. I just figured . . . why do I take all of these pictures. I want to enjoy them. And I am sharing them with you.
I love Christmas decorations. Do you put up lights inside the house?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: Christmas 2024, Christmas decorations, Christmas tree 2024, garland, Glass angel night light, metal sprial trees | 4 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 13, 2024
Today for my Friday Photo I am posting a shot of my metal tree.
Posted in Friday Photo | Tagged: Christmas decorations, Christmas Tree, Friday Photo, Metal Ornament Tree | 2 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 28, 2023
I do love all the decorations. When do you take yours down? Do you take stuff down after the Twelve Days of Christmas? Do you embrace the Epiphany and take the Christmas decorations after? Do you take stuff down the day after Christmas? Do you take decorations down on New Year’s Day? I like to wait as long as possible, but usually our tree dictates when we take it down. Sometimes it lasts longer than others. Last year I was sad because it was a great tree and would have lasted until February but we had to rush to take it down because we had workers coming in. So sad. I am not sure this one will last until the 12th day of Christmas, but we will see.
Putting decorations up and taking them down has been a bit of a challenge these past years because I use our living room as my yoga/Nia/stretch Zoom studio so I have to keep the area clean and open . . . when in the past I could have boxes and ornaments all over. We will see how it goes this year.
So . . . when do you “undecorate”?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: "undecorate", Christmas decorations, Christmas lights, Christmas ornament, classes online, Epiphany, living room studio, New Year's Day, Nia, stretch, Twelved Days of Christmas, Yoga, Zoom classes | 2 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 27, 2023
We have a kitchen window sill now. The angel is a candle “holder” but we are not using it as such so close to the curtain. My mom gave it to us. The nativity scene is from one of our cruises and the pinecone reindeer were my mom’s. Our Christmas decorations are memories for me.
Posted in Misc | Tagged: 2023 Christmas, angel candle holder, Christmas decorations, kitchen, kitchen window sill, Nativity scene, pinecones, reindeer | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 26, 2023
2023 Christmas Tree. I think when we brought it in the house the nail in the tree may have loosened a little because it is crooked, but either I am used to it now or it has straightened out since I took this photo (12.11.23). The star is totally crooked, but my husband wanted to leave it. Here is the full Christmas Tree. Oh, you can see the little lighted trees in the yard through the sliding glass door.
Posted in Misc | Tagged: 2023 Christmas, 2023 Christmas tree, Christmas decorations, Christmas Ornaments | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 22, 2023
Here is a close-up of the Christmas tree. There are always so many ornaments I enjoy looking at, so I end up posting pictures of the same ornaments. 🙂 Ahh, the joys of Christmas trees and ornaments.
Star ships, icicles, candy canes, tea cups, glittery bulbs, crosses, and all kinds of stuff adorn our Christmas trees, so here is another shot for today’s Friday Photo.
Posted in Friday Photo | Tagged: 2023 Christmas, candy canes, Christmas, Christmas decorations, Christmas Tree, crosses, Friday Photo, glittery bulbs, icicles, Star ships, tea cups | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 15, 2023
I received a gift of roses yesterday. There was so many I opted to put them in two vases. I love flowers and so I was very happy. It was an unexpected “Just because” from my hubby. Such a great addition to our Christmas decorations. So here ya go for today’s Friday Photo.
Do you add flowers or plants to your Christmas decor?
Posted in Friday Photo | Tagged: Christmas decorations, Christmas Ornaments, Flowers, Friday Photo, gift, Roses, two vases of flowers | 2 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on January 13, 2023
We had to take down Christmas WAAAAAY earlier than I was thinking and earlier than I wanted to. If I hadn’t been so busy, I would have spent this past week postings pictures of it to help with my melancholy. I will try to make this my last Christmas 2022 picture post. A Christmas tree closeup for my Friday Photo. (I even have another photo all set to go for today, but I decided I wanted another Christmas shot!)
When do you typically take down your Christmas decorations?
Posted in Friday Photo | Tagged: Christmas 2022, Christmas decorations, Christmas Tree, Friday Photo | 2 Comments »
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