Christmas Poncing fine, but surely this is insane?

[TrickyD]

I read this ‘advice’ in the Daily Wail today. Some party expert or other.

Utilise the floor space by weaving garlands between presents under the Christmas tree and add fake snow to corners and the bottom of table legs.

I also use toy trains snaking through the presents or travelling through the dining table. Both can be bought cheaply, and look adorable, creating the wonder of a Christmas morning.

Fake snow on table legs anyone?

@skodadoda

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10192063/Royal-events-planner-reveals-throw-chic-Christmas-party.html I particularly like this, ‘ Lots of my celebrity clients love a u-shaped table - easily recreated at home with three tables from around the house’. Yeah really, we all have three tables just lying around our mansions 🤣

I’m going to do this with 3 tables I have hanging around the house, so that’ll be the kitchen table, my dressing table and the coffee table. Perfection!

@pictish

Floor space…what’s that?

I was thinking the same

@TwinklyBranch

Fake snow? Amateurs. I keep real snow in my freezer and pile it round the table legs before every meal from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day.

🤣 🤣 🤣

@skodadoda

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10192063/Royal-events-planner-reveals-throw-chic-Christmas-party.html I particularly like this, ‘ Lots of my celebrity clients love a u-shaped table - easily recreated at home with three tables from around the house’. Yeah really, we all have three tables just lying around our mansions 🤣

Not to mention a room big enough to hold three dining tables in a U shape.

@TwinklyBranch

Fake snow? Amateurs. I keep real snow in my freezer and pile it round the table legs before every meal from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day.

I have a fresh ice sculpture delivered daily on those days. Only in time for dinner though, not every meal.

My toddler used to make a “festive snow display” by ripping up rolls if toilet paper at every opportunity and trailing it around the house.

I feel guilty now for giving out. I obviously crushed their burgeoning style guru spirit. Even if it was august when they went through that phase.

Who can be arsed with all this?

I bet it will be all over Pinterest and instagram though.

Note to self to avoid Pinterest and Instagram.

I seem to remember that last year door dressing was a big thing with people paying a lot of money to have someone come round and pimp up their door for Christmas.

Also, paying someone to dress up as Elsa and come round to your house with a gift basket.

I've found the secret to festive decorating on a budget . Lots of stately homes change/rotate their theme every year, so if you approach them early enough you can hire out last year's Dec's.
This year I've got 2 van loads arriving on 27th Nov, which should be enough for the ball room, 2 sitting rooms and the dining room and I don't have to worry about storing them.
Does anyone know where I can get a couple of reindeer for the stables? We did compromise and borrowed some red deer stags a few seasons ago but there was an unfortunate incident at the boxing day shoot.

RAFHercules Ah, I think you may have my Great Hall decs from 2019. They have been crossed out of the Christmas Festivities Sundries ledger.

Surely part of the joy of putting up the tree is unwrapping all the decorations that hold special memories or were given by special people many now long gone. It is like greeting old friends .
One year my neighbours had an incident that meant they had to throw all their decorations away and start anew. I remember thinking how devastated I would be by that so no way do I want to buy new each year . No wonder the planet is in such a mess.

@RAFHercules

I've found the secret to festive decorating on a budget . Lots of stately homes change/rotate their theme every year, so if you approach them early enough you can hire out last year's Dec's. This year I've got 2 van loads arriving on 27th Nov, which should be enough for the ball room, 2 sitting rooms and the dining room and I don't have to worry about storing them. Does anyone know where I can get a couple of reindeer for the stables? We did compromise and borrowed some red deer stags a few seasons ago but there was an unfortunate incident at the boxing day shoot.

Bet it made for a great dinner on New Year's Eve, though.

Cat, leave the tree alone.

Cat, leave the train alone.

Cat, leave the carriages alone.

Cat, leave the tree, the train and the carriages alone.

Cat, leave the baubles alone.

Cat, stop eating the fake snow.

Cat, leave the train alone.

Cat, get off the interparcel garland.

Cat, get off the interrail and interparcel garland.

Cat, stop eating the interparceline garland.

I'm watching you.

Cat.

Cat.

Don't even think about it.

Don't make me get up and pick my way through the tracks, the trains, the carriages, the garlands, the fake snow, the parcels, the trees and the decorations.

Cat.

FUCK. He's got a fucking mouse over there.

Crash. Bang. Wallop. Wooooh-wooh. Ding ding ding. Crunch. Crash. Squeak.

OK, so we'd probably best clean this mousegut spattered fake snow off the table leg garlands and the train tracks look like there should be an accident investigation carried out. Pass me one of those sodding garlands, that'll do the job.

Can we go back to the plastic tree on the sideboard again next Christmas?

That wooden "Christmas Tree"

The comments on this thread are priceless 😂😂😂

And yet I am sitting here thinking should I pop/weave some garlands and baubles around my presents under the tree 😂

@TrickyD

I am glad you all enjoyed the article as much as I did.

Home Bargains has little jars of fake snow powder to whip up.
I will take pity on my chair legs though, and give it a miss.

On the other hand, has anyone spotted battery operated cable cars there or in B&M?

When the instant snow came out I sent some to my sister in Australia for when the gc came over. When she came to see me the following August there was still remnants of it in her suitcase. She said she was haunted by it for ages.

@TwinklyBranch

Fake snow? Amateurs. I keep real snow in my freezer and pile it round the table legs before every meal from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day.

Amateur. I turn my heating off from 1 December and gradually fill my house with snow. I am looking for about a foot depth on all floors and surfaces by Christmas Eve. It's magical and adorable.

@NeverDropYourMoonCup

I write 'MERRY XMAS' in the dust on the coffee table.

@supremelybaffled I’m with you!

What a fun thread for a Saturday morning!

@supremelybaffled

I write 'MERRY XMAS' in the dust on the coffee table.

I don't think we've dusted since June, I'm leaving it for longer so we can write the same on our sideboard.

@skodadoda

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10192063/Royal-events-planner-reveals-throw-chic-Christmas-party.html I particularly like this, ‘ Lots of my celebrity clients love a u-shaped table - easily recreated at home with three tables from around the house’. Yeah really, we all have three tables just lying around our mansions 🤣

We have 3 table (or had before I got rid of one last week) but one was round, one is rectangular and one is square and a different height to the rectangular one. Would her celebrity clients like that arrangement?

@TheCreamCaker

My husband's sister once put the spray-on fake snow on all the panes of her dining room doors. It was still on there for the following Christmas (yes, the tramp hadn't cleaned it off )

I once had a gorgeous shop with huge front windows with small panels. I thought fake snow would look lovely. And it did!!

My Dad said 'don't do it'

I did it. It looked really good!

But fuck did I wish I'd listened to my Dad! It was a fucking nightmare to get off and I was tempted to leave it for the following year!!

I have a couple of cans and some large front windows (in the house- no shop anymore) and it's tempting, but NOPE

@Bebabelouba

Paint your front door?? Do people really do that for Christmas??

I'm tempted this year. I need to replace my front door & have probably left it too late to get it done before Christmas... it might enjoy one last hurrah as a Christmas Door?!

I am feeling better about my (lack of) Christmas prep now!

@TwinklyBranch

Fake snow? Amateurs. I keep real snow in my freezer and pile it round the table legs before every meal from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day.

So funny

I am deeply ashamed to admit that somewhere in my loft is a battery operated cable car. Bought years ago in Switzerland. Never thought to use it as a Christmas decoration.