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packaged…

02 Sunday Nov 2025

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had a productive day…

first thing in the morning I gathered up all the Halloween and Thanksgiving decorations and packaged them up into their boxes…

the boxes are still open and will remain that way for a few days, in case something got missed, lol…

then I went out and turned on the tap on the front yard rain barrel to empty it… next step will be to flip it over for the winter…

later on, I went through the bedroom closet and packed away the summer clothes for the winter and filled a box with pass-alongs…

always pleased when the sorting goes easily;-)…

bedtime…

03 Tuesday Dec 2024

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I’ve been enjoying the trees up the stairs…

wound through them is a string of lights which I would turn on in the morning and off at bedtime…

now I’ve decided to leave them on all the time…

my beloved didn’t like having trees or snow people on the stairs as his walking was uneven and he sometimes stepped on one of the decorations, lol…

so far, I don’t have that problem;-)…

tulle…

16 Saturday Dec 2023

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been wanting to wrap the door with fabric, like ribbon on a present…

consulted with a friend and went online to find just the right fabric…

was looking for silver, but in the end ordered some glittery tulle…

it arrived last week and I decided on a plan…

first I removed the curtain that had been hanging over the window and replaced it with bubble wrap to act as insulation;-)… that was fun and it is just held there with water…

next I unwrapped the glittery tulle and figured out how much I needed… I tied it but with the knot on the inside of the door and I realized it needed to be on the outside, so I undid it and then redid it the other way…

then it looked a bit empty so I dug out a wreath made from three others… removed one and hung the other two on the tulle…

and to finish it off, hung a glittery bow on the inside…

looks pretty good;-)…

disco…

27 Monday Nov 2023

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the Christmas boxes came out from under the staircase last Sunday… the goal is to reduce the size of the collection as each box is gone through…

Monday, the snow people were moved into the den… they look very cute in there… none were disposed of…

Tuesday, a great number of glass balls were hung in the dining room window… this involved separating ones which had been hung together previously and then hanging them individually… took some time, but came out nicely I think…

Wednesday, more ornaments were put up with the pottery and some of the most beautiful ones were hung on the dining room chandelier…

Thursday was about reindeer and sleighs… and even some snowflakes…

Friday involved the tree… it is filled with purple, silver and glittery ornaments… quite different from my usual choices…

there are lots of little disco balls on it and the ceiling and walls were quite sparkly as the sun shines through the window;-)…

I have been enjoying the process of focussing on one item each day and taking my time completing the decorating…

I did decide to give away some blue and red ornaments and a few wreaths, lol…

way to go me;-)…

carefully…

25 Saturday Nov 2023

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redid the living room table on Thursday…

usually for the holiday season I’ve filled it with glittery purple, silver, and clear ornaments…

this time I decided to change up the display…

first I found a nice piece of fabric and then a a collection of some of my favourite ornaments which would usually be hung on the tree but instead went into the drawers…

I took the glass off the top of the table and filled it with the ornaments before carefully putting it back on…

then three sleighs were set on top… looks good…

detours…

20 Friday Oct 2023

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it didn’t rain, as the weather report had suggested for Thursday, so I went for a walk…

I went a block further than normal and walked in the opposite direction, lol…

once again I had to take a few detours to check out more Halloween installations…

even got to see a few geese this time…

later, I filled the bird feeders and was able to spend time on the deck reading and noticed many more leaves on the deck…

the temperature has been around 16 or 17 degrees Celsius and I’ve been taking the time to get outside and enjoy;-)…

beautiful fall day…

shelf…

30 Friday Dec 2022

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on Wednesday I took all the ornaments off the trees in the living and dining rooms… the dining room one looked a little lonely and empty as it sat on the table…

the ornaments ended up on two tables and are still there, lol… but I have washed out a bin and it is drying as I write this…

Thursday I brought up the box that the trees live in and was able to squash them in…

then I taped it closed and was able to get it downstairs but not onto the shelf where it lives… will have to wait for someone else to lift it up;-)…

paintbox…

18 Sunday Dec 2022

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had some fun this morning… after going out and shovelling the droppings from the city snow plows…

been planning to colour the letters for these chocolate ornaments that I received from Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers…

finally got around to it… sadly there was no purple in the paintbox🤪…

I am pleased with how they came out… I used some of my gifts from last year in a slightly different way and enjoyed the time…

now they are on the tree…