Posted on 11/28/2004 7:25:47 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
Celebrate the holidays with HGTV's 12 Days of Christmas Specials, featuring all things festive, from decorating on a budget to finding the perfect gift. On HGTV.com, expanded coverage of each special includes videos, slideshows, step-by-steps and more to guide you through this busy season.
Hey Remember! Christmas
Premiere: 11/28 at 8 pm/7c
See how home products have been marketed to American consumers over the past 50 years. More...
Outer Spaces for the Holidays
Premiere: 11/29 at 8 pm/7c
Watch as the exteriors of two homes are transformed into imaginative winter wonderlands. More...
Year 'Round Christmas
Premiere: 11/30 at 8 pm/7c
Meet people around the country who make their yuletide celebrations last all year long. More...
Christmas Room by Room Style
Premiere: 12/1 at 8 pm/7c
Matt and Shari explore unique inspirational ideas for this year's decor. HGTV.com offers instructions for these projects. More...
Divine Design Christmas
Premiere: 12/2 at 8 pm/7c
Candice Olson takes the ultimate holiday challenge as the festive season quickly approaches. More...
Home to Go Holiday Special
Premiere: 12/3 at 8 pm/7c
Explore a whole new way of dressing up your home and table for holiday entertaining. More...
Holiday Design on a Dime
Premiere: 12/4 at 8 pm/7c
Each design team transforms a room with distinctive holiday cheer. Get in-depth instructions, video clips and 10 additional holiday decorating ideas on HGTV.com. More...
A Very Merry Curb Appeal
Premiere: 12/5 at 8 pm/7c
These festive facelifts are filled with tons of ideas to improve the look of any home year-round. More...
Holiday Windows 2004
Premieres: 12/6 at 8 pm/7c
Go behind the scenes as the world's best department store Christmas windows are sketched, built, installed and revealed. More...
White House Christmas 2004
Premiere: 12/7 at 8 pm/7c
HGTV goes inside 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for a look at how the First Family decorates for the holidays. After the special, visit HGTV.com for a closer look at this year's decorations. More...
We have a tradition with our kids of driving around town to check out the houses. The kids will call out "Tacky Alert" when we see a particularly egregious one!
The wreath is up, but that's the extent of the Christmas decor so far. Every year I debate whether to put up a tree, as it's just the two of us, no chilluns, and I never seem to have the time to devote to decorating it properly. *sigh* Maybe this year ...
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I have the tree up. 2 Granddaughters decorated it while their Mom took their little brother to the Dr on Friday.
Also have the Chrystal Trees on the bombe' chest in the front entry.
I can't remember where I put the tree skirt, so the tree has no petticoat. I may have to put a white tea towel around it for the time being.
The fall decorations are still up outside. I need to take the scarecrow down today and at least get the wreath up.
I need to do the mantle (I'm short one sock, due to arrival of new gc & am having trouble finding one to match the others) and slap the garland up on the Stairway railing.
Tomorrow I fly out to DC for a week long meeting, so it will be awhile before I get the rest of it done.
The old timey names might be a new hip trend, another celeb recently named her new daughter Ethel. Just one more reason I'm glad I'm square.
Safe travels and Godspeed.
May you not be a person of interest to the Homeland Gropers.
Thanks!
Sounds like you all have a great group with interesting things to discuss.
I've done a lot of decorating and cooking for a living. It sort of gets in your blood.
I was just saying to myself yesterday "Self" (Emeril) you need to take the pumpkin mailbox cover off and find the Christmas themed cover.
I found Martha Stewart bell wreaths last year on K-Mart.com for $4.00. I have Thomas Paconi tree decorations from QVC. My Santa collection takes up a lot of space. but love it! I sold my Dickens Village collection two years ago because I got tired of lugging it around and setting it up. We used to live down by the beach where a lot of tourists passed by on their way to the boat parade, so I would set them up on a tall open bookshelf facing out which was always the hit of the street. I really miss all that!
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Do you mean that people stood outside your window and peered in at your Dicken's Village? That would make me uncomfortable. Strangers peering in my windows isn't something that makes me feel good.
I plan on arriving at the airport early. If the Grooper is young and good looking I will go outside for a cig and insist on being Grooped a second time! :>)
Windex time.
Yes people did look through the window at the house display, but it was the front living room where we did not spend time at night. When you live by the beach that's sort of something everyone does. Almost everyone who lived on the main street or the boardwalk area decorated their living rooms with various fabulous Christmas designs for people to see.
It definitely is the place to go at Christmas for a nice stroll looking at Christmas decorations and then the fabulous boat parade. Usually strolling carolers, a very festive atmosphere.
Thanks again for the welcome, I am really looking forward to the HGTV tour of the White House decorations. I loved the segment last year where Barney was 'helping' lol.
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