Looked for Christmas bedding online.
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Looked for Christmas bedding online.
My Christmas books came:presents1:
Looked on-line at this year's Hallmark ornaments
ohh. I cant wait to purchase in July. Do you collect any of the series?Quote:
Originally Posted by ornamentmaven
I always buy in July as well. I personally collect the Madame Alexander doll series; and for my daughters, I always buy the Puppy Love series and the Fairy Messenger series. Such beautiful, whimsical ornaments. I am always tempted to buy more, but my main tree can barely hold the weight of all my ornaments as it is! I have a separate tree for the Madame Alexander ornaments!Quote:
Originally Posted by chocolatechip1979
What abou you? Any series?
The series we collect are A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, Heavenly Belles, Caddyshack, and John Deere. Then we choose one family ornament and my daughter gets to choose 3 that she likes for her tree.Quote:
Originally Posted by ornamentmaven
Do you put up more than one tree? ......because it sounds like it will fill up fast! I love collecting ornaments - hence my name -ornamentmaven! But, I will be 60 this year, so I am trying to tone things down a bit! Certain things I won't give up on however - like my Hallmark ornaments. I will have to check out your series in the Dream Book!Quote:
Originally Posted by chocolatechip1979
We have 3 trees that we put up. One with Hallmark ornaments(they rotate every year) One with all our homemade ornaments and then the last tree has all of my daughters favorites.Quote:
Originally Posted by ornamentmaven
We also set up 3 trees - the main tree - on the living room - has EVERYTHING on it. A 4 foot white tree in my bedroom is for my Madame Alexander ornaments (3 different series), and then a small 2 foot tree which is decorated with small Rudolph ornaments. I really like your Heavenly Belles ornament; but did you know that this is its final year!Quote:
Originally Posted by chocolatechip1979
yes. I saw that this was the last year for the Heavenly Belles. :sad elf:I really don't understand why Hallmark is doing a bunch or short series lately. I did see the Tea Time series that starts this year. As an avid tea drinker I thought it was really cute. (also going to be a 5 part series)Quote:
Originally Posted by ornamentmaven
I didn't realize that they pre-planned the length of each series. I guess I always thought they simply based it on sales. Although some of them would be obvious in length. I have been lucky - my Madame Alexander is on it's 21st year, the Puppy Love series is on its 26th and the Fairy Messenger is on its 12th. For my younger daughter, I started several short lived series before we settled on the Fairy Messengers. I am always impressed by the Frosty Friends series which is on its 37th year. I was given the 1st and 7th in that series as gifts and wish I had kept up with them. The first one is worth over $500 now.Quote:
Originally Posted by chocolatechip1979
The Tea Time ornament is very cute. Do you collect miniature ornaments as well? I was looking at the Heirloom Angels which also starts this year!
a lot of the miniatures are cute but not really for us. The Heirloom Angels are beautiful.Quote:
Originally Posted by ornamentmaven
I just finished looking through all my Christmas photobooks
Agreed - I don't collect the miniatures either. I always get disappointed when I see an ornament I love, then realize it's a miniature!Quote:
Originally Posted by chocolatechip1979
I just made some instant apple cider and I'm going to watch "Matchmaker Santa" while I surf this site
Does thinking about Christmas time count? :home::christmastree::familytree:
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Originally Posted by SilverBells
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Originally Posted by wstaple
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Originally Posted by SilverBells
I was just viewing Lemax's village collection for 2016. As many of you know, I have a large village I set up at Christmas time. I haven't added any new houses in 3 or 4 years. Lemax has some nice ones this year - including a Brewery and a Gift Shop. I know I shouldn't add to my collection, but it is so hard to resist! I guess I have about 35 houses. I have a good friend who has at least 400 houses in her collection. She has so many, she can't really even set them up as a village. She ends up stacking them on multiple tall bookcases. Can't wait to set it up in my new home this year!
made a reindeer craft with my daughter.
Was viewing on-line the selection of nutcrackers available this year. Target usually has a great, inexpensive line of nutcrackers. I like to add one each year. Maybe I'll add two this year since didn't buy one last year. I've decided that for 2016, I will only buy 3 Hallmark ornaments (1 for myself and 2 for my daughters), 1 village house, and 1 or 2 nutcrackers.
Wrote an article on my Christmas blog, about the book " The snow queen"
Watching Home Alone with my beautiful daughter
My daughter and I finished our reindeer ornaments
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So cute!Quote:
Originally Posted by chocolatechip1979
I got word of a 50-75% off sale on Yankee Candles - so I picked up two as small Christmas gifts. One candle is a Peeps Marshmallow scented one - regularly $28, I paid only $7. It is one of the gifts I purchase for my older daughter - who is addicted to Peeps!
Happy Birthday to Me!! :yahoo:
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Happy Birthday! Looks yummy!Quote:
Originally Posted by chocolatechip1979
Happy belated birthday:elf3:Quote:
Originally Posted by chocolatechip1979
I was watching if some new Christmas movies are coming this year and liked some Christmas pages on Facebook.
Thank you for the wishes :)Quote:
Originally Posted by *Snowflake*
My plan is to watch Christmas movies all day :)
Getting ready to watch a Christmas movie with my breakfast :)
The two Christmas gifts I ordered arrived in the mail yesterday, so now I'm motivated and scouring more sales!
Watching QVC Christmas in July and previewed the list of Hallmark Christmas movies starting next Friday!
Getting ready to watch the Christmas movies on Hallmark HD channel 565 starts at 12pm :)
Yes - their Movies and Mysteries channel has far superior movies when compared to their basic Hallmark channel movies. Even so, I enjoy watching them all!Quote:
Originally Posted by chocolatechip1979
I was able to watch a couple of them myself this weekend - Dashing Through the Snow (the book was much better; they changed too much in the movie) and November Snow.Quote:
Originally Posted by ornamentmaven
Been looking on-line for nutcrackers to add to my collection.
I am searching for craft ideas. Every year I like to make a few new ornaments. I especially like beaded ornaments. Any suggestions??