Getting House Ready

Have been decorating the house for a party next week. I started decorating a few weeks ago. First the Tree went up. Then some outdoor lighting. It took me a while to get to the Kitchen and Solarium. Still working on them. Getting House Ready is fun, I turn on the holiday music and start moving.

Planning a Holiday party for this Friday. So Planning the Appetizers and drinks is on going. there is a show called the Chew, Love the show. They had some good ideas on the food side. I might try out the stuffed Mini potatoes. Looking for a good kid friendly punch now. Of course the Mulled Gluhwine is a must for the adults. Maybe even Spiced apple cider.

I hope the weather will be nice. Want to have the outdoor fires going. I will have to post the Photos of the house throughout the week. Thinking about featuring one room per day. I have six rooms that are holiday decked out. That will work out fine for the upcoming week.

Today I wanted to show the Hallway. It can cost a lot to purchase Holiday photos. I have been adding to mine each year. This year I had gone out to look a came back empty. With the ecomony tight, there was just nothing in my price range. Driving back home I got an idea from remembering a Germany friend. Every year she would use her own house pictures and deck them out. So, with a cost of about 2.50 per picture this is the results.

A Hall lined with Presents.

Now if you viewed the first photo, You noticed one of the photos is not hanging straight.
Well, That is because there is a noise maker attached.
Folks will want to straight it and it will make a glass break noise.
The tag says nice/ naughty.
Now if they straighten it the tag will says...
Naughty.
I just had to do something funny for the party.

The hall entrance view...

So your question......
Are you planning a funny thing for the holiday?

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WW-Getting ready for You Know Who.......

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Yep it's that time of year.......

This is also a Wordful Wednesday


So for the Wordful part, the first photo was taken at the Mall, as they got ready for the arrival. The second is a view of Santa through the window in Christmas town. I love seeing him there. He always waves at me.

Aloha Friday-Holiday Fun times

We started off the Holidays by going to a Christmas Town. I love doing something right after Thanksgiving to Kick off the Christmas Holiday time. Here are a few photos of our Kick off to the Christmas season.

A Christmas show
Do you know these folks?

Family enjoying a S'more cookie

A must visit to the North pole....
to see....

Santa Clause!
Got a wave.

A question for you:

How do you start your Holiday Season?

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