A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....12-9,10,11-05...From East to West Freepers Decorate Best

Billie

[Billie]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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Good morning, FReeper FRiends! We're Christmas'ing all this month at the Finest, and this weekend you are invited to join us on a tour of the Finest Homes, where many of our regulars are going to share their decorations with you in their posts throughout the weekend. In addition, we would love to see your Christmas trees, your outdoor lights, favorite decorations, recipes, Christmas traditions in your home.

Because the thread may get really *graphics-heavy*, I ask that you keep your photos a reasonable size (both physical and in bytes), but do hope you will feel free to post as many as you like, and drop in often to see the offerings of others. I will start with a little bit of Christmas in my kitchen, which helps get me in the mood to bake cookies and other goodies we don't need but think we can't do without. :)

As we share our photos and traditions with others, I'd like to share a link to a wonderful Christmas album: "Merry Christmas With love" by Clay Aiken, who has one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard. My favorite song is #6: "Mary Did You Know". I've been listening to it over and over and over, but you should be able to listen to all of the songs on that CD.

Clay Aiken ~ "Merry Christmas With Love"

Mary Did You Know

Mary, did you know
that your Baby Boy would one day walk on water?
Mary, did you know
that your Baby Boy would save our sons and daughters?
Did you know
that your Baby Boy has come to make you new?
This Child that you delivered will soon deliver you.

Mary, did you know
that your Baby Boy will give sight to a blind man?
Mary, did you know
that your Baby Boy will calm the storm with His hand?
Did you know
that your Baby Boy has walked where angels trod?
When you kiss your little Baby you kissed the face of God?

Mary did you know.. Ooo Ooo Ooo

The blind will see.
The deaf will hear.
The dead will live again.
The lame will leap.
The dumb will speak
The praises of The Lamb.

Mary, did you know
that your Baby Boy is Lord of all creation?
Mary, did you know
that your Baby Boy will one day rule the nations?
Did you know
that your Baby Boy is heaven's perfect Lamb?
The sleeping Child you're holding is the Great, I Am.

From My House to Yours.....

Merry Christmas, Ya'll!

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[Billie]

This is the most gorgeous song; has me in tears.... thank you.

Oh, I'm glad you heard it. My thanks again to GB for uploading to her server!

[Billie]

Thank you for the history of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special! Interesting to read about it on it's 40th anniversary!

[Billie]

Nice thread today as always. Thanks.

Thank *you*, Dubya! 'preciate that. :)

[Billie]

Rusty and Giz...Christmas 05 (Just taken an hour ago!!!!)

Ohhhhhhhhhhh! Look at those precious things! What a wonderful picture - and what a wonderful way you vignetted it!!!

[Billie]

Absolute lovely wonderful marvelous thread! Love everything about it!!! And...LOL...I was so impressed with TWO trees too!!! OOPS! Mirrors...who would have thought! Am decorating tomorrow and will certainly take pictures. (and this makes me decorate with a much more "critical eye"!) I think this thread has started to put me into the Christmas Spirit!!! Thanks Sistah!

Thank you, my sweet sistah dutchess. (Did you really think it was two Christmas trees? I didn't mean to try and fool anyone - it's just a great place to put the tree with the whole wall behind it mirrored.)

Am glad this gave you the Christmas Spirit. Now get to decorating! LOL

[Billie]

What a pretty thread. Since I live alone, the only thing I do is put a wreath on the front door and put my Norfolk pine in the middle of the kitchen window after I dress it up a little.

Hi, dixie - thanks so much. Haven't seen much of you lately - hope you'll come back and see if others have posted more pictures throughout the weekend.

[Pistov Elf]

...Mistletoe!
Wolfies ready! Lay one on me! : )
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An Elf wish....fulfilled!!! Wolfie is down for the count!!

Pistov

[dixie sass]

I will. I drop by every day. Lately I've been doing more reading than commenting.

[Billie]

I can understand that. I usually read more than I comment, too - unless it's a thread I'm *hostessing*. :)

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Evening Billie.

Wonderful thread.

Pictures of my tree and Nativity will be posted shortly.:)

{{HUGS}}

[Aquamarine]

Afternoon, Aqua. Thank you - your posts are always so classy, I'm glad you like this one. I don't have a LOT of countertop space, and the granite is so easy to care for and always looks shiny.

Thanks for the nice compliment. I love the granite countertops wish we had them, ours is Corian.

What a cute Santa - is your wreath fresh pine or silk? Hard to tell - but I like it!

The wreath is artificial but they did a good job of making it look real.

[dixie sass]

It seems as though there is so much more information out there anymore and then of course theres Shadow! She keeps me going all day.

[Aquamarine]

Did get this version to play and it's wonderful.

Need to find out who GBUSA's music source is.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Here are a couple of pictures of my decorations so far.:)

The tree by itself.

Tree and Nativity

Nativity by itself.

I'll be posting more pictures, as soon as I remember to buy more batteries for my digital camera.:)

[Pistov Elf]

HO! HO!

Nice try...Wolfie!! We know Fatboy (a.k.a. SANTA) is too fast for you!!

Our Santa Security Cam shows Santa to be just fine!! (Not to worry kids!!)

Hmmmmm....looks like we are going to have to start Volume 2 for your Naughty List!!

Pistov

[Billie]

Evening, Noosie, and thank you. I look forward to seeing your tree and your Nativity. Thanks!

[Billie]

The wreath is artificial but they did a good job of making it look real.

They did - I think all the artificial trees and wreaths now are just so natural looking - the only thing missing is the wonderful smell, but I don't miss the needles and searching for a tree that doesn't have a bad side you have to hide. :)

[Mrs.Nooseman]

You'll find the pictures at post 94.

I'll post more pictures of my decorations as soon as I have new batteries for my camera.:)

[Billie]

I think most all of the MP3's have to be *bought* and there are services that offer them for so much a month, or 10 cents a song to download, etc., but I don't know how much I would use it. Started to do one of them, and it was requiring $30.00charge to my credit card for available *credit*. Just decided I didn't want to do that and even thought about buying the CD (may still do that - I love it!) and burning that one song, but GeeBee had an even better solution. She *does* subscribe to a service and she uploaded it to her server. I've saved it on my desktop from hers, and now don't have to wait for it to *buffer* each time. :)

[Billie]

Oh, thank you, Mrs. N! Your tree is so pretty - you use the same *main* colors I have on mine! (wonder why I like it then?) And the nativity is beautiful.