Fellatio's thread for a PONCETASTIC Xmas - PART 2!!!

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Well we seem to have filled up the last one so I started a new one. Hope that is ok with everyone!

Jacaqueen - I finally remembered to have a look at my Angel Chime. It is small - about 10 inches tall. Very light metal. Easy to put together. Looks ok. Word of warning - was searching for who it was who asked me and came across a post from someone whose parents had one and it burnt their table! So they get v. hot.

MooMoo - I like the sound of your woodburner, and its sounds nice and low maintenance.

The logs sound fine, the little stockings sound lovely. Festive Sylvanian style mice or meerkats with Santa hats on poking through the logs would be naff. ( Bleach my brain for that image, pleeeeeeeeeeese )

How's your cake doing? Been feeding it?

glitter @ your cuckoo clock my DC would love one!

Its genuine black forest cuckoo clock that cost my dad ££££ . Will be family heirloom! Its my favorite thing ever!

Was to read of cuckoo clock mocking on pobbear thread

POMbear...

can I join your family please?

In all honesty, its the only thing I own thats not ikea tat .

Want to be my glamorous younger sister? Or wizened great-granma?

Oh I think I'll plump for glamorous younger sister, please.

lol our house looks a bit Ikea-y. But in a very poncetastic way, natch. Its all in the accessories, darling.

Oh yes, the nordic cushions and the pretty candles...

Oh no some of the big stuff here is Ikea. Like most of the kitchen.

I splurge on the accessories to detract the eye......

I like Ikea kitchens- our last one was and so is our new one. IMHO better than B&Q- and not all of us can afford magnet!

taffeta aah thanks for remembering my cake . Yes I've been feeding it every week (or more like 'sloshing' it, Delia's two teaspoons a week seems a bit miserly IMO), and it smells gorgeous. And the edges don't seem burnt anymore actually (probably because of all the booze). So it's looking really good.

I bought a new Christmas tree for our sitting room today; it's artificial which I know isn't poncetastic at all, but DH is really badly allergic, so I would rather have a fake tree than a husband covered in hives for Christmas . It's 8ft high but quite slim so not too enormous. It looks lovely, even though I've only put lights on it so far. We had a 6ft tree before, but I always had an image in my head of DH having to reach up to put the star on the top of the tree at the end of decorating it, preferably with 'White Christmas' playing in the backround....!

Glad to hear your cake is doing well, MooMoo.

I have always snurked a little at those that put up their decorations early, but honestly, there's only so much baking and playing dominoes a girl can do. DH stranded at home as no trains, school closed both DC ill, 2 ft of snow, I gave in today and am surrounded by all my glorious Christmas paraphernalia, have even put together a Christmas playlist on the iPod. Which I danced a bit madly to this afternoon much to the family's collective bemusement. No tree yet, next weekend if there's any let up in the snow.

Going to make HopeForTheBest's choc mocha biscotti tomorrow.

Me and Ds tried making salt dough decorations this afternoon.
Ds enjoyed squirming them. They look a bit weird tbh but maybe with a bit of toddler style paint and glitter they'll look lovely and rustic!
our tree is a fake but that's coz dh is allergicto lots of stuff and I don't fancy spending Christmas stopping Ds picking up needles to eat!
I'm going to ikea to Investigate their decorations for a Scandinavian vibe tmrw and the tree is going up at the weekend and all our other weekends are busy till Christmas.

Our tree is not only fake, it's silver. I thought I liked it in a kitsch way, but this year it's setting my teeth on edge. I may have to dismantle it and buy a proper one.

I bought a black one last year Teal. Not poncetastic at all but we were not here for Xmas and were not going to bother with putting our tree up and the hassle of getting everything out and then DH having to put it all away on his own as DS and I were still away. So I bought a black one from Tesco and lots of silver and turquoise decs. Looked OK but I didn't love it. Will be nice in hallway in house in UK though.

Can you use your silver one in kitchen or hallway?

I have started work on a throw for the sofa. It is actually a bedspread in a pale gold cotton quilted fabric. I am sewing on gems and beads in a cross shaped motif in each corner, having spent a ridiculous amount in Hobbycraft. I was inspired by my holiday to Istanbul and the byzantine early christian art, although in reality it might look a bit more 'we three kings from orient are'!

Another Ikea kitchen here. Also Poang chairs, which our cat loves. That was the other sewing project, make new cushions for two Ikea chairs like Poang, but smaller. So I bought two Poang cushions at £14 each, cut the foam to size, unpicked the binding off the covers, cut them to size, sewed them up, and replaced foam. That won't take long I thought; except than the sewing machine wouldn't work so I had to sew them both by hand. Poncetastic Christmas throw was put on hold.

Am envious of MooMoos fire. I have no fireplace at all, I would love to decorate a fireplace for Christmas.

lol Teal why not buy some pine green spray paint?

I love the sound of your throw girlywhirly.

Am pondering making the biscotti today. It takes 3 eggs and supplies are short. Bleedin snow......

where will i find the biscotti recipe? fancy having a go,

taffeta, my friends chickens are on laying strike at the moment, so she's a bit short of eggs too!

For my first Christmas at 9mo, my parents couldn't afford a real tree, and fake ones were very expensive, so my dad made a 2ft one from dowelling and green crepe paper. It stood on the sideboard in a little pewter pot, with baubles on it! Not poncetastic, but he made the effort even though we were on a very tight budget.

Not that I'm suggesting Teal does this to her silver tree, wrapping the branches in green crepe paper!

frazzled - here

girlywhirly your Dad sounds lovely

I may have to get a fake tree this year. The snow is over 2feet deep and I can't get out to buy food never mind a tree. DH is buggering off to Singapore next week and there is no way that I am hitching up the trailer in this weather to go and get a tree.

Later today we have to go and check out our holiday home and switch the heating on. Probably a bit stupid given the weather but I dont want to have burst pipes as we will be going there after Christmas for New Year. We bought it earlier this year and it does look like an advert for Ikea. I wasn't sure if I should put up decorations or not, but when I came across a Christmas tree made of driftwood that had been collected from a local beach, I just couldn't stop myself. I've bought some red and white gingham ribbon and some other lovely understated Nordic tat.

Yes, he was bless him, no longer with us sadly. But he did make the tree in Christmas 1958, so that makes me quite old!

Oooh, a driftwood tree, how unusual!

I made this today with some orange slices that I had dried a couple of weeks ago www.hobbycraft.co.uk/Pages/Ideas/Idea.aspx?id=1231.

Its hanging up in my kitchen now .

Poncey Ladies - did we have a link somewhere to paper snowflakes or origami snowflakes? Have been searching both threads & can't find it so I'm beginning to think maybe I dreamt it

No, I don't want it anywhere; I never want to look at it again. It's mocking me from the corner of the room.

DH insists that Christmas itself is tacky, so a tacky tree is in keeping. I appreciate his effort to make me feel better, but am determined to buy a proper tree and pretend I never made such a mad purchase this time last year.

eBay can have it, or Freecycle if eBay punters are not game.

If I buy a real tree tomorrow, will it have dropped all its needles by Christmas Day?