Can we see your home Christmas decorations?

[Castout]

And absolutely the trees! :woot:

Pictures time!

[Gerald]

No,only desert or a tree

http://i.imgur.com/3d3DQ.jpg

[Castout]

The palm is not even decorated . . . .:shifty:

The wall is certainly so high..I'm assuming Iraq?:O:

[Tribesman]

The palm is not even decorated . .
It is decorated in the style the Joseph and Mary household used at Christmas, with the added bonus that it can be used at Easter too.

[Gerald]

The palm is not even decorated . . . .:shifty:

The wall is certainly so high..I'm assuming Iraq?:O: It's marocko, :D

[Madox58]

We pulled out all the stops this year!
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n12/privateer_2006/Tree.jpg

And that IS our one and only tree.
:haha:

[antikristuseke]

Im going to be working throughout the hollidays, cant be arsed to decorate. Gotta love working a job and a half.

[frau kaleun]

We pulled out all the stops this year!


http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_isUvlzkZPIQ/SxBXy9QNe7I/AAAAAAAAFjs/TRrnVPq9OTc/s1600/charlie-brown-tree.jpg

[TLAM Strike]

This is our ceramic tree, my grandmother made it years ago (she worked at a factory that made them).

http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/1664/snapshot201012151.jpg
Just testing it out and cleaning off the dust on my computer desk before moving it in to the living room.

[Jimbuna]

Im going to be working throughout the hollidays, cant be arsed to decorate. Gotta love working a job and a half.

Me too but the wife has put the decorations and the tree up....I'm not all that fussed tbh.

We're having three Xmas days this year, the first was for the boy on 12th because he returns to his ship on 18th, the second on the 25th is for the daughter and the afternoon of Boxing Day will be for the wife and I after I've returned home from work.

[August]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_isUvlzkZPIQ/SxBXy9QNe7I/AAAAAAAAFjs/TRrnVPq9OTc/s1600/charlie-brown-tree.jpg

The ironic part is that Privateer actually bought that "tree"! :DL

[Madox58]

This is our ceramic tree, my grandmother made it years ago (she worked at a factory that made them).

http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/1664/snapshot201012151.jpg
Just testing it out and cleaning off the dust on my computer desk before moving it in to the living room.

:o
We have (or had) one of those somewhere!
Maybe your GrandMother made it also.
:up:

[Madox58]

The ironic part is that Privateer actually bought that "tree"! :DL

After the kids were gone, the Wife and I decided the bigger trees were
to much hassle.
I probably have 3 or 4 trees in the basement.
:hmmm:

The last full size was a 'pop-up' tree complete with lights.
It was OK until one of the Cats managed to 'un-pop' it.
:haha:

I nearly died laughing before I could get the Cat out of it!
:har:

[frau kaleun]

I nearly died laughing before I could get the Cat out of it!


Simon's Cat vs. Christmas Tree:

http://www.simonscat.com/santaclaws.html

[tater]

I'll post pics at some point. We actually have 2 trees this year, one big one, and one I got for $19 (both real trees) I'm putting in the room where kids will decorate cookies, and stuff at the xmas party we're having Saturday (we have a Christmas party every year for people with little kids (basically like a b-day party for both our kids in terms of guest list—a gajiillion little kids tearing around the house while the adults drink, eat, and talk. That'll keep 'em out of the living room, since the less interesting room now has a small tree at least :)

There were no stands, so I threw it in a bucket with a cinder block and some bricks to hold it up :)

[Herr-Berbunch]

This is our ceramic tree, my grandmother made it years ago (she worked at a factory that made them).

http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/1664/snapshot201012151.jpg
Just testing it out and cleaning off the dust on my computer desk before moving it in to the living room.

:o
We have (or had) one of those somewhere!
Maybe your GrandMother made it also.
:up:

Looking top left, should your last line not read...


wait for it...


it's coming...


Maybe your GrandMother 'make it so'

:rotfl2:

[Madox58]

Maybe Capt. Pecard would say that.........
But you lost me Mate.
:doh:
DOH!!
Never mind!
I spotted what you mean.
:haha:

[Gargamel]

the Wife and I decided the bigger trees were
to much hassle.

Same here.

Cept the wife handles it, and she puts it up in a room we rarely use, so she has never bothered to put it away for the last 3 years. So..... we have a semi permanent xmas tree up.

[Madox58]

so she has never bothered to put it away for the last 3 years.

So the Wife CAN'T handle it then, right?
:haha:

She just looks at you and says,
'Don't open that door until next X-Mas!'

And you, Like me, would just say 'Yes Dear.'
and walk away.
(Cause IF we said anything else? WE'D be taking the damned thing down!)
:up:

[Castout]

Stop typing start uploading PICTURES :O:

[Gerald]

http://i.imgur.com/Q98tF.jpg

[DarkFish]

Stop typing start uploading PICTURES :O:Right, right... Don't get impatient:shifty:

Especially for you I just downloaded a brand new Christmas decoration:DL
http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc333/DF_3852/DSC_0061.jpg

Nah seriously, Christmas decorations aren't gonna fit in my 11m2 room:O:

[Madox58]

http://i.imgur.com/Q98tF.jpg


Looks to me like that tree on the right is getting ready to attack!

[Gerald]

You're right, maybe that Triffids days are here... :D

[the_tyrant]

Right, right... Don't get impatient:shifty:

Especially for you I just downloaded a brand new Christmas decoration:DL
http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc333/DF_3852/DSC_0061.jpg

Nah seriously, Christmas decorations aren't gonna fit in my 11m2 room:O:

Reminds me of something that happened a few days ago:
Stupid friend 1: my computer can't run COD BO
Stupid friend 2: get a new video card
Stupid friend 1: how do you do that?
Stupid friend 2: google "free video card download" and download yourself a new video card
:haha:

[Madox58]

Did you get the link to the new video card?
:har:

[frau kaleun]

This is from 4 years ago, the last time I put my own tree up, as the ex's place had plenty of room for it and I was there for most of the holidays anyway. In theory I could put it up in my apartment, and have done so in the past, but it would mean crowding things up too much these days... besides which I always go to my sister's on Christmas and she decorates enough for three people. :D

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/1799/001is.jpg

http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/2513/002gk.jpg

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/6995/003rjz.jpg

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5908/004ie.jpg

[ReFaN]

i would, if we had any. Will post some pictures of our *Pepparkakshus* when its done!

[Gerald]

This is from 4 years ago, the last time I put my own tree up, as the ex's place had plenty of room for it and I was there for most of the holidays anyway. In theory I could put it up in my apartment, and have done so in the past, but it would mean crowding things up too much these days... besides which I always go to my sister's on Christmas and she decorates enough for three people. :D

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/1799/001is.jpg

http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/2513/002gk.jpg

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/6995/003rjz.jpg

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5908/004ie.jpg You are therefore "free" for new experiences with tree, :O:

[Castout]

Frau :up::up::up::up::up::up::up::up::up::up:

For being the only person who actually responds according to the thread topic!

Da rest are killing me...damn pirates LOL

Tell you what guys office too if you will but a big no no for malls LOL.

Edit: Ooops sorry it was TLAM Strike who is the first with a ceramic tree no less :salute:

No wait it's Privateer actually! Let's make a chain of pictures so those pictures don't get buried.

If you make your own snowman in front of your house then pls do take picture and post them here. That counts as one too.

[Sailor Steve]

Stop typing start uploading PICTURES :O:
WHAT?

Why is it that the people who start these threads don't start by showing their own? And now you're demanding.

Sorry, I can't write what I actually want to say without getting in trouble. :nope:

[Reece]

Excuse my very humble abode!!:oops:
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Reecehk/Xmastree2010.jpg
No presents yet!! Santa hasn't been!!:D

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Reecehk/Xmasvillage1.jpg
My wife's little village under snow, just about everything lights up, moves etc, the grand children love it!:yep:

[Gerald]

Very nice, :DL

[Castout]

WHAT?

Why is it that the people who start these threads don't start by showing their own? And now you're demanding.

Sorry, I can't write what I actually want to say without getting in trouble. :nope:

Ok Ok don't get mad.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/roh_kudus/16122010158.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/roh_kudus/16122010157.jpg

Our little tree
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/roh_kudus/IMG00045-20101215-1846.jpg

[Castout]

Excuse my very humble abode!!:oops:
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Reecehk/Xmastree2010.jpg
No presents yet!! Santa hasn't been!!:D

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Reecehk/Xmasvillage1.jpg
My wife's little village under snow, just about everything lights up, moves etc, the grand children love it!:yep:

That's a big tree and that little village is really cute :yeah:

[Reece]

Yours is a very nice setup too Castout! and the house ain't bad either!!:yeah:
Only 9 days to go!!:D

[Castout]

Yours is a very nice setup too Castout! and the house ain't bad either!!:yeah:
Only 9 days to go!!:D

Thanks but I'd prefer your tree :DL...really

Oh pls don't remind me about the days left to Christmas putting up the tree may be fun but putting it down cough cough it usually stays until well beyond valentine LOL. In this house the Christmas season is a quarterly period.

[Gargamel]

http://i.imgur.com/Q98tF.jpg

Looks like a juicy convoy with a couple confused escorts!

[TarJak]

Excuse my very humble abode!!:oops:
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Reecehk/Xmastree2010.jpg
No presents yet!! Santa hasn't been!!:D

I love your radiogramme!:D

[Reece]

I love your radiogramme!:DThat is for a stack of old 78's dating back to WW2.:yep: I picked the radiogram up for $15.

[Herr-Berbunch]

And I'm guessing, Reece, that you don't use that door? :hmmm:

@Castout - I'll post pictures of my tree when the wife's not around - she's not overly enamoured with subsim :nope: for some life-sapping reason and she'd wonder why I can take a pic of the tree but not write a card... :smug:

[frau kaleun]

Looks like a juicy convoy with a couple confused escorts!

:rotfl2:

[Jimbuna]

http://www.hklightbox.com/pic/hong-kong-christmas/image/christmas-tree-20081121-200953.jpg (http://www.hklightbox.com/pic/hong-kong-christmas/christmas-tree-20081121-200953.jpg)

This was going to be ours this year but I've yet to figure a way of getting it to fit into the buna household.

[GoldenRivet]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JGyMlGQKTSM/TQqGPpr7qVI/AAAAAAAAAcI/taJ5EGiMGow/s320/photo%25282%2529.JPG

[Castout]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JGyMlGQKTSM/TQqGPpr7qVI/AAAAAAAAAcI/taJ5EGiMGow/s320/photo%25282%2529.JPG

Absolutely very nice tree there :yeah:

[tater]

Christmas Eve from another year...

Sorry, tried to use photbucket from phone and it claimed it copied link but didn't)

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o222/tatersw/IMG_0622.jpg

[Reece]

Christmas Eve from another year...

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o222/taterswYes!:hmmm:

[Madox58]

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o222/tatersw
That's EXACTLY like some of the day after New Years I've had!
:haha:

[tater]

Fixed


tater

[Castout]

Fixed


tater

I must say somehow the picture feels more like a resort than home which is always the sign of a good home :D. All home must feel like a resort(to relax) imo, nice place.

Only that the tree was inside . . . .obscured from view mostly :O:

[Gerald]

Christmas Eve from another year...

Sorry, tried to use photbucket from phone and it claimed it copied link but didn't)

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o222/tatersw/IMG_0622.jpg Very nicely decorated, :up:

[kiwi_2005]

No Christmas decorations here castout. I don't get into that bullsh*t

But across the road from me a new neighbor moved in and when I go outside to drink my coffee I look over and his house is light up with Christmas stuff the whole house is one big neon lights. The guys an idiot but if it makes him and his wife happy then theirs no argument I suppose.

[Reece]

And I'm guessing, Reece, that you don't use that door? :hmmm:You open that door with a death wish!:oops: Something has to hold the roof up!:03:

[GoldenRivet]

No Christmas decorations here castout. I don't get into that bullsh*t

But across the road from me a new neighbor moved in and when I go outside to drink my coffee I look over and his house is light up with Christmas stuff the whole house is one big neon lights. The guys an idiot but if it makes him and his wife happy then theirs no argument I suppose.

wow, way to bah humbug :haha: (JK)

I told my wife "There is no force on this earth that can make me go outside this year and hang those damned lights."

inside though... we've done well to have a tree and a nativity scene, thats it.

those people who spend hours going into overkill making their home look like the Santa's whore house are insane.

[Castout]

No Christmas decorations here castout. I don't get into that bullsh*t

But across the road from me a new neighbor moved in and when I go outside to drink my coffee I look over and his house is light up with Christmas stuff the whole house is one big neon lights. The guys an idiot but if it makes him and his wife happy then theirs no argument I suppose.

:D Pagan or not just the meaning of the birth of Christ that matters to me. Decoration is just to help getting in the mood and a change of pace it is after all near the end of the year.

[Jimbuna]

No Christmas decorations here castout. I don't get into that bullsh*t

But across the road from me a new neighbor moved in and when I go outside to drink my coffee I look over and his house is light up with Christmas stuff the whole house is one big neon lights. The guys an idiot but if it makes him and his wife happy then theirs no argument I suppose.

There's a growing trend here in the UK for making your house exterior look something akin to santas grotto.

Some are so mesmerising they have been cited as the cause of many an RTA due to there tendancy to draw a motorists attention :nope:

I blame the motorist personally.

[Castout]

There's a growing trend here in the UK for making your house exterior look something akin to santas grotto.

Some are so mesmerising they have been cited as the cause of many an RTA due to there tendancy to draw a motorists attention :nope:

I blame the motorist personally.

British people are so pathetic...it took a giant billboard with a picture of a sexy women to do that here :D

[Herr-Berbunch]

There's a growing trend here in the UK for making your house exterior look something akin to santas grotto.

Some are so mesmerising they have been cited as the cause of many an RTA due to there tendancy to draw a motorists attention :nope:

I blame the motorist personally.

I drive home down a fast country lane and every December there is a farmhouse halfway down in a little dip that has more lights than Blackpool (and why do they remove their lights just before Xmas?), motorists are forever slowing down to see the lights and one day, one day, it'll be horrific (accident, not the lights - although they are a bit gaudy for my liking).

But it wont be me :nope:

Anyhoo, here's my tree...

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5001/5268688868_830007c08d_b.jpg

[Jimbuna]

Looks like your getting slippers again (the blue wrapping paper) :DL

[Herr-Berbunch]

Ha, ha, not had slippers for about 20 years, or pajamas. Only thing I know I've got, because I bought them myself (with relative's money) is a set of 2.1 speakers and a gamepad.

Other than that I'm not really bothered (bah-humbug!) about it all, it's for the kids and they'll have a good time! :yep:

[Jimbuna]

Ha, ha, not had slippers for about 20 years, or pajamas. Only thing I know I've got, because I bought them myself (with relative's money) is a set of 2.1 speakers and a gamepad.

Other than that I'm not really bothered (bah-humbug!) about it all, it's for the kids and they'll have a good time! :yep:

Precisely :yep:

[frau kaleun]

Obligatory:

http://hackedirl.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/681cec28-d2e4-48df-a63f-b351f5688edf.jpg

[ReFaN]

Okay, my Pepparkakshus comming right up!

[frau kaleun]

Okay, my Pepparkakshus comming right up!

My vast knowledge of Swedish* tells me this must be a gingerbread house. Yummy! But I suppose you just build and decorate it and don't eat it, that's what most people I know here do. "DON'T TOUCH THE MAGIC CHRISTMAS COTTAGE IT'S FOR LOOKING NOT EATING"... well then why is it made out of yummy yummy gingerbread? HMMMM? :D







*Only applicable where "Swedish" = "stuff I saw at the IKEA store."

[ReFaN]

eating the House isnt allowed before, annandag Knut, where you throw all the decorations out, when that day comes, all the Non stop usually is eaten.

http://img96.imageshack.us/i/img0089tl.jpg/http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2116/img0089tl.jpg

Non stop is the Candy buttons on the roof ;)

[Jimbuna]

My kids used to leave Santa a glass of brandy and Rudolph his reindeer a mince pie before they went to bed on Christmas Eve :DL

[Madox58]

My kids used to leave Santa a glass of brandy and Rudolph his reindeer a mince pie before they went to bed on Christmas Eve :DL
:hmmm:
Something tells me a glass of brandy was only a starter for 'Santa'.
:haha:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Followed swiftly by a crate of Brown? And if I recall, 'Santa' drinks three at a time :03:

Hope we haven't just wrecked James' thoughts of Christmas past!

[Madox58]

Does he infact remember them?
:haha:

[Dowly]

Doubt it. :hmmm:
http://blog.hrwlawyers.com/Portals/35018/images/drunk_santa%20justsaymaux.jpg

[antikristuseke]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_PySjoFfk

[Jimbuna]

:hmmm:
Something tells me a glass of brandy was only a starter for 'Santa'.
:haha:

Followed swiftly by a crate of Brown? And if I recall, 'Santa' drinks three at a time :03:

Hope we haven't just wrecked James' thoughts of Christmas past!

Does he infact remember them?
:haha:

Doubt it. :hmmm:
http://blog.hrwlawyers.com/Portals/35018/images/drunk_santa%20justsaymaux.jpg


LOL :DL

[jumpy]

Q: can we see your christmas decorations?
A: no, I'm sad and live alone; decorations only serve to remind me of this fact, so I see not point in having them*


*the cat might appreciate eating tinsel, but past experience cleaning sparkly sick off the carpet makes me less appreciative of this :)

[krashkart]

I tried to decorate my place this year, but...

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=179&pictureid=3410

*sigh* :nope:

As they say, if at first you don't succeed try again! :DL

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=179&pictureid=3412

But... :o
All I did was put the dang tree up! :shifty:

Some of my neighbors think I should quit while I'm still a free man...

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=179&pictureid=3411



One more try... :yeah:

Result:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_X3lNYc1hcaE/TGsIJJpY3NI/AAAAAAAAAxU/_eQ28v8s8_U/s1600/232980-jar_jar_binks_large.jpeg


Frack. I give up. :damn::damn::damn:

[Madox58]

Last time I tried to wire up decorations....
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/03/23/volcano1.jpg

[Gargamel]

No Christmas decorations here castout. I don't get into that bullsh*t

But across the road from me a new neighbor moved in and when I go outside to drink my coffee I look over and his house is light up with Christmas stuff the whole house is one big neon lights. The guys an idiot but if it makes him and his wife happy then theirs no argument I suppose.

Growing up in the northern hemisphere, I dont think I could deal with Xmas in the summer......

[Platapus]

http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/1664/snapshot201012151.jpg

Holy crap!, I thought our family was the only one with the ceramic christmas tree. For the last 10 years I lived at home as a kid, that's all we had.

That brought back memories.

[kiwi_2005]

edit: Double post I already answered to this thread. :roll:

Got up to early today...

[tater]

My kids used to leave Santa a glass of brandy and Rudolph his reindeer a mince pie before they went to bed on Christmas Eve :DL

Good idea. I'll pass that to my kids.

[onelifecrisis]

This is our tree. Sorry for the bad image quality. In true Christmas style the bottom half of the lights on the tree stopped working two days after we put it up!

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/9095/photoohq.jpg

[Gerald]

An excellent tree, :DL

[TLAM Strike]

.... I wish....

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/1084/awesomephotosexterminat.jpg

[Morts]

Exterminate !

[Capt Sinbad]

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=395&pictureid=3417

my offering..reece you into footy?

[DarkFish]

My kids used to leave Santa a glass of brandy and Rudolph his reindeer a mince pie before they went to bed on Christmas Eve :DLIs that customary where you live?

I ask because Santa comes from the Dutch Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas). Children here traditionally put their shoes in front of the fireplace, with a carrot or some straw in it for Sinterklaas' horse. At night Sinterklaas or one of his helpers descends into the chimney and replaces the carrot with small presents (usually candy).

[Jimbuna]

Good idea. I'll pass that to my kids.

It's a bloody excellent idea actually....the more kids you've got the more pi$$ed you can legitimately get :DL:03:

[Jimbuna]

Is that customary where you live?

I ask because Santa comes from the Dutch Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas). Children here traditionally put their shoes in front of the fireplace, with a carrot or some straw in it for Sinterklaas' horse. At night Sinterklaas or one of his helpers descends into the chimney and replaces the carrot with small presents (usually candy).

Certainly was in my part of the country and the rest of the UK as far as I am aware.

I remember in the early nineties when I was living in Dordrecht.......didn't christmas (or some part of it) get celebrated somewhere around Dec 5th?

[DarkFish]

I remember in the early nineties when I was living in Dordrecht.......didn't christmas (or some part of it) get celebrated somewhere around Dec 5th?December 5th is the Sinterklaas holiday:DL
Christmas is on December 25th/26th as usual, but apart from christmas dinners we don't really celebrate it. We do the present giving at "Sinterklaasevening" on December 5th. Also Sinterklaas looks a bit like Santa (Santa's an " Americanized" Sinterklaas).

[Jimbuna]

December 5th is the Sinterklaas holiday:DL
Christmas is on December 25th/26th as usual, but apart from christmas dinners we don't really celebrate it. We do the present giving at "Sinterklaasevening" on December 5th. Also Sinterklaas looks a bit like Santa (Santa's an " Americanized" Sinterklaas).

LOL :DL

http://smilies.sofrayt.com/hld/merrychristmas3.gif

[Reece]

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=395&pictureid=3417

my offering..reece you into footy?
No!! Not into any sport really!!:oops::-? Sorry TarJak!!:doh:
Nice tree!:up:

[Skybird]

From 2 or 3 years ago:

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/1975/img0441e.jpg (http://img152.imageshack.us/i/img0441e.jpg/)
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http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/1796/img0381bu.jpg (http://img28.imageshack.us/i/img0381bu.jpg/)
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http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1764/img0385m.jpg (http://img89.imageshack.us/i/img0385m.jpg/)
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http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/7060/img0434n.jpg (http://img804.imageshack.us/i/img0434n.jpg/)
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The pyramid was built by me, long time ago. The stones for the crib are from the shore at Lübeck/Travemünde (Brodner Ufer), my mother painted them 35 years ago. I was at elementary school back then. Boy, time is going fast...

There is another pyramid left that I built, almost over a meter high, three decks, basement 50 cm in diameter. I don't have the space to place it. My grandfather built christmas pyramides, from him I learned it. His highest was over 1,5 meters, electric, several decks and precious figurines, and had a weight of several kilos. You do not find a thing that huge and beautiful in stores. He knew how to fine-work with wood, at least this positive I have to admit about him. The little I know about it, I learned from him.

[Gerald]

Very nice picture, :up:

[Skybird]

And while we are at christmas, this (http://www.jacquielawson.com/preview.asp?cont=1&hdn=2&pv=3169996&path=98301) I found last year, and I still find it very cute and charming.

[krashkart]

From 2 or 3 years ago:

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/1975/img0441e.jpg (http://img152.imageshack.us/i/img0441e.jpg/)
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That is really cool, Skybird. I don't remember seeing anything like it before. :DL


EDIT: Dig the lava lamp, too. :haha:

[Reece]

And while we are at christmas, this (http://www.jacquielawson.com/preview.asp?cont=1&hdn=2&pv=3169996&path=98301) I found last year, and I still find it very cute and charming.

Yes I like that one Skybird!:yep: Happy Christmas!:up:

[Gerald]

Yes, very nice I like angels, Merry Christmas! :yep:

[Capt Sinbad]

No!! Not into any sport really!!:oops::-? Sorry TarJak!!:doh:
Nice tree!:up:

shame was hoping you was a footy fan..thanks for the tree compliment:)

[FIREWALL]

Excuse my very humble abode!!:oops:
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Reecehk/Xmastree2010.jpg
No presents yet!! Santa hasn't been!!:D

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h244/Reecehk/Xmasvillage1.jpg
My wife's little village under snow, just about everything lights up, moves etc, the grand children love it!:yep:

Very beautifull Reece. You don't have anything to be embarassed about. :yep:...:up:

Ok Ok don't get mad.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/roh_kudus/16122010158.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/roh_kudus/16122010157.jpg

Our little tree
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/roh_kudus/IMG00045-20101215-1846.jpg Very warm and inviting. Thx for shareing also Castout. :up:

[FIREWALL]

I now looked at all the posts and pictures. :wah:

I'm going to go cry to my wife and tell her I changed my mind.

I want a tree for Xmas after all. :yep:...:D

Happy Holidays to Everyone. :woot:

[August]

Che August

http://home.comcast.net/%7Erdsterling/pwpimages/Christmas%202010%20015small.jpg

[TLAM Strike]

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I haven't seen one of those in a while, I remember my Grandmother had one made of metal when I was young. It was always fun to watch. :up:

[Castout]

We added additional chasing Christmas light for the tree last night


Edit:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v319/roh_kudus/20122010169.jpg

[Skybird]

Sorry guys, I have to boast a little bit now, it has been years since I had the opportunity to show this to somebody. :DL

This pyramid (pedals on top not mounted) I build in the autumn and early winter months of 1985, which also were the end of my school days (in December 1985). I built this by myself, the small painted figurines (angels with music instruments) were bought from a dealer from the "Erzgebirge", the deer, trees and the angle with the harp I bought one years earlier during summer holidays with my parents, from a carver in Bavaria.

This thing is already quite huge and dominant, and I have stored it in the cellar, in my flat it simply is and looks too big. Some repairs, where the glue has dried out and broke, would be needed to be done, too.

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This was the third and last pyramide I built, it also was the biggest. The small one I posted earlier, was done one year earlier, it was my first. There was another one, a bit bigger, more figurines, a bigger dish, but still just one deck and quite simplistic in construction, but it went amiss.

The one by my grandfather that I told of before, easily is more than twice as high and wide, and electric (both candles and movement, wax candles cannot move the weights anymore). But it is with my grandmother and we hate each other like the plague, haven't talked since ten years with each other. If I ever get my hands on that after her death, I'll show you the thing. It's unlikely you will ever see such a big and beautful monster again somewhere.

That is really cool, Skybird. I don't remember seeing anything like it before. :DL


EDIT: Dig the lava lamp, too. :haha:

The Lava lamp already had no wire back then, and went into the waste bin this Spring. :)

The pedals on the pyramide throw moving shadows to the ceiling, one shadow wheel for each candle, all three moving "into each other". It is a hypnotizing sight, and very nice. With the big pyramide, you would have 6 shadow wheels of two sizes (due to the two different distances of the candles). It produces the kind of comfortable atmosphere you have at a campfire, for example. I could sit and watch the shadows for an hour.

The big pyramide moves extremely fast with six candles, though, so I used to burn just the front 4 candles.

[Castout]

You built that yourself?! You earned the rights to boast!:salute:

[Castout]

From 2 or 3 years ago:


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Your grandfather taught you well. My God you can make a business of the whole handicraft! :yeah:. They are awesome! No kiddin!

[Reece]

You're not just a gasbag Skybird, you're a very talented gasbag!:up:

[Skybird]

Your grandfather taught you well. My God you can make a business of the whole handicraft! :yeah:. They are awesome! No kiddin!
Thanks, but you should see the pyramids he built himself. I really regret I have no picture of them, they are second to nothing I ever have seen in shops, on pictures from around the world, on christmas markets or anywhere else. Compared to his big ones, I was just a talented amateur, really.

I felt that after my third one I could not do it any better, and like often when I feel that I have touched the limits I could reach in something that interested me - I then started to lose interest.

The woodturned pieces I did in the working cellar of my grandfather, he had the equipement since he worked a lot with woods, but the wallpieces and the construction I did in our kitchen, with nothing more than a handful of tools and a separate table. I would not claim that all the design is my own idea, of course I was influenced by the ornaments he had used in his own pyramids, and what I had seen on pictures from other pyramids. The fretwork of the wallpieces was quite difficult, due to the precision needed, and I ruined more than one piece and thus had to do more than actually are present in the finished pyramid. Smoothing the edges in the correct angles also was very tricky, so that the wllpieces fit together without too big spaces being visible.

Oh my, those were the days. Ironically, in earlier years at school, I had one year of handicraft courses. And I sucked at it! Lack of interest, I suppose.

[Rhodes]

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[tater]

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o222/tatersw/IMG_0791.jpg

[Castout]

@Rhodes and Tater..those are some beautiful Christmas trees and Rhodes even have the cave with the Jesus family set up :)

[AVGWarhawk]

Nice trees guys. :yeah:

[AVGWarhawk]

Che August

http://home.comcast.net/%7Erdsterling/pwpimages/Christmas%202010%20015small.jpg

WTH August? Your tree also watched the Patriots? :har:

[AVGWarhawk]

This is our tree. Sorry for the bad image quality. In true Christmas style the bottom half of the lights on the tree stopped working two days after we put it up!

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It does not have to be the biggest or the brightest to be a nice tree. :up:

[Rhodes]

@Rhodes and Tater..those are some beautiful Christmas trees and Rhodes even have the cave with the Jesus family set up :)

Thanks, the cave was a inovation this year from my mother! But no fireplace for santa send the presents...

[August]

WTH August? Your tree also watched the Patriots? :har:

Of course! It's a New England Christmas Tree! :DL

[jumpy]

Thanks, but you should see the pyramids he built himself. I really regret I have no picture of them, they are second to nothing I ever have seen in shops, on pictures from around the world, on christmas markets or anywhere else. Compared to his big ones, I was just a talented amateur, really.

I felt that after my third one I could not do it any better, and like often when I feel that I have touched the limits I could reach in something that interested me - I then started to lose interest.

The woodturned pieces I did in the working cellar of my grandfather, he had the equipement since he worked a lot with woods, but the wallpieces and the construction I did in our kitchen, with nothing more than a handful of tools and a separate table. I would not claim that all the design is my own idea, of course I was influenced by the ornaments he had used in his own pyramids, and what I had seen on pictures from other pyramids. The fretwork of the wallpieces was quite difficult, due to the precision needed, and I ruined more than one piece and thus had to do more than actually are present in the finished pyramid. Smoothing the edges in the correct angles also was very tricky, so that the wllpieces fit together without too big spaces being visible.

Oh my, those were the days. Ironically, in earlier years at school, I had one year of handicraft courses. And I sucked at it! Lack of interest, I suppose.

Notwithstanding the general awesomeness of the entire pyramid, I really liked the 'feather stick' christmas trees you had going on there. :up:

[Castout]

Notwithstanding the general awesomeness of the entire pyramid, I really liked the 'feather stick' christmas trees you had going on there. :up:

I really like his big one. I hope the skills aren't lost in the family :DL

Surely it could be made a business.

[Skybird]

I really like his big one. I hope the skills aren't lost in the family :DL

Surely it could be made a business.
Grandfather is dead, I don'T built these things anymore (have not even the tools and machinery for turning wood), my father played bassoon (now retired) and had to form the wooden mouth pieces himself, my mother painted old "Bauernschränke", and kids I don't have. So much for family tradition. :D

Grandfather also constructed wooden stars with electric light within, to hang up, and did some clocks that were mounted on or inside wood. Later he switched to a huge, a very huge electric mini-railroad, Minitrix format. :DL

The "feather stick" trees, Jumpy (I assume you m ean the trees I used in there), can be bought in according shops, in many sizes. It is difficult to carve them that way that the curls look equal and are of the same sizes and don't break off, I definitely recommend not to try that oneself. All the figurines are traditional work in Bavarian regions and the "Erzgebirge". So is the smoker.

[Reece]

@Rhodes and Tater..those are some beautiful Christmas trees and Rhodes even have the cave with the Jesus family set up :)Yes they are very nice!! I especially like the nativity scene Rhodes.:yep:

[Castout]

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o222/tatersw/IMG_0791.jpg

Just crossed my mind must be a lot of work putting that down :haha:

Wait a minute that's a real tree isn't it? Arrgh . . . . .

[tater]

Just crossed my mind must be a lot of work putting that down :haha:

Yeah, it's like 10 feet tall. Luckily the doors you cannot see behind are french doors so it's 2 doors wide and the tree fits nicely.

I made the mistake a couple years ago of deciding that the now dry lower bits would be easier to get out if I cut them off.

The cutting off in fact worked GREAT. The problem was the 2 little faces watching in horror as daddy mutilated the Christmas tree. Next time I wait til they are not at home :)

I went by Lowes this year and bought a 2d tree that I put in the atrium for our christmas party (we set that room up for kids to do crafts and decorate cookies so the parents can eat and drink with less interruption :) ). I got the tree the end of last week. When you wait that long they are virtually free. I got a 6-7 ft tree for $18 or something like that. Might have been less, $18 might have been before a discount, lol.

[Castout]

Yeah, it's like 10 feet tall. Luckily the doors you cannot see behind are french doors so it's 2 doors wide and the tree fits nicely.

I made the mistake a couple years ago of deciding that the now dry lower bits would be easier to get out if I cut them off.

The cutting off in fact worked GREAT. The problem was the 2 little faces watching in horror as daddy mutilated the Christmas tree. Next time I wait til they are not at home :)

I went by Lowes this year and bought a 2d tree that I put in the atrium for our christmas party (we set that room up for kids to do crafts and decorate cookies so the parents can eat and drink with less interruption :) ). I got the tree the end of last week. When you wait that long they are virtually free. I got a 6-7 ft tree for $18 or something like that. Might have been less, $18 might have been before a discount, lol.

:D

18 bucks that's some deal but I take it they don't deliver it to your home. . . . . . .

I don't have a pick up here but I guess that's what friends are for :haha:

[tater]

I shoved the little one right inside the station wagon, I didn't even put it on the roof :)

[August]

I shoved the little one right inside the station wagon, I didn't even put it on the roof :)

10 feet is longer than most European cars! :D

[tater]

The 10 footer I threw on the roof (my station wagon IS a euro car (a Saab)).