tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4708495768493268860.post945592073503715278..comments2023-10-20T09:06:39.999-04:00Comments on What Fresh Hell Is This?: My tree is still up, so it must still be Christmas, right?Kim S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06609086775319252934noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4708495768493268860.post-64983146061681790962011-01-05T15:13:51.304-05:002011-01-05T15:13:51.304-05:00Rachel – I have that same exact ‘Antique store wal...Rachel – I have that same exact ‘Antique store walk’. Sometimes I’ll ‘see’ myself doing it and realize that I look like a little girl who has just been admonished to keep my hands to myself! I used to get that ‘bull in a china shop’ comment a LOT! The food post is coming – first I’m going to post some comments that a cousin sent to me and a couple of ‘confession’ pictures (nothing awful – you’ll see). <br /><br />I hope that you DO get up the nerve to post about overdoing. Tender tales (both sweet and bittersweet) are specialities of yours. <br /><br />Christine – I love finding someone who shares my love of holiday excess. And the can of mandarin oranges made me laugh. I am a big, giant fan of those – in fact, the first time that I tasted a fresh one, I was totally disappointed! And your idea about donut holes?? Genius! I can try that soon, since I can buy just a few of them for an experiment. <br /><br />Anon – thank you! As far as Macy’s is concerned, we actually DID have more decorations than in our local Macy’s. It was a pitiful display this year – a few square feet of ornaments on maybe 5 trees tucked in to a corner in the basement in the furniture section. Sad effort for what I always think of as “The Christmas Store”. And I will most certainly be envying you this weekend – we will be beginning the ‘take down’ and it takes forever without any of the joys associated with the ‘putting up’!Kim S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06609086775319252934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4708495768493268860.post-38266258988980321312011-01-03T14:57:39.412-05:002011-01-03T14:57:39.412-05:00Good Lord, Kim! How many boxes does it take to st...Good Lord, Kim! How many boxes does it take to store all that the rest of the year?!?! <br /><br />I don't think Santa's Lane at Macy's has more decorations!<br /><br />I would be envious with even a quarter of that up around me!<br /><br />I will put my little tree with its crystal ornaments away on January 7th (the day after Three Kings Day AKA The Twelfth Night of Christmas.) It will take two minutes. Then you can envy me. :-P<br /><br />Hope all is well, or at least getting there in your world.<br /><br />Happy New Year, Kim and Mr. Kim,<br />AnonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4708495768493268860.post-16485447249784848942011-01-02T21:48:52.727-05:002011-01-02T21:48:52.727-05:00Just beautiful Kim, the whole house, but that big ...Just beautiful Kim, the whole house, but that big tree is simply amazing. you and I have an awful lot in common, I decorate the hell out of my house for every holiday,and most of my best things are from garage sales!<br />We always got an orange in our stockings as kids, and i continue the tradition..<br />except this year, I gave my son a little can of mandarin oranges and he loved them.<br />May you and yours have a happy blessed new year.<br /><br />Quick ps<br /><br />I saw the lollipop things you made for Halloween,and you said they were a pain to make? I was thinking, couldn't you make them with plain donut holes and decorate as the same?? Just a thought..Christine 007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4708495768493268860.post-5594886297870149672011-01-02T16:31:50.754-05:002011-01-02T16:31:50.754-05:00Ohhhhh, YOUUUUUUUUUUU! What a wonderful, magical...Ohhhhh, YOUUUUUUUUUUU! What a wonderful, magical house. I want to come there before you take it all down and just wander in what Chris calls my "Antique Store" walk---hands behind my back so as to present the least knocking-off surface amongst all those precious things. I could just get lost in the Oz tree and perhaps---perhaps---take the balloon wherever it took me.<br /><br />And I was thinking of Banshee just now, after reading the last post---she and Otis were the only two names I knew. <br /><br />Do post lots of pictures of the food---I "went so light" (my Mother's phrase) on decorating (but you should SEE what Caro did!) and on cooking and having gatherings, it seemed like just an airy whiff of pine and sugar through the house, nothing more.<br /><br />I'm trying to get up my nerve and post the reason I've always overdone on Holiday things---it's many years in the making, and still almost too tender to tell.<br /><br /><br />Please post every minute of your gatherings and parties, even breakfast.<br /><br />love and,RachelDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11204947567574886675noreply@blogger.com