Oh I love the one with the robins on it. 😍
Was in around the shops there and all the clothes shops now are selling the wooly hats, jackets, gloves etc. It's getting close 😬
Did you smell any of them? 😁
A bit of an emotional one for me today. I went into work to return stuff from my home office and clear out my work office as I'm officially finished now. After 16 years there I felt a little bit sad but not too sad 😁, I'm loving having time to go swimming every day and being able to travel when I want to. One of the things I had to bring home was a big box of Christmas decorations including beanie toys that I used to have on my kids tree when they were small. I had been using them to decorate our work tree for a number of years but couldn't bear to leave them there so I guess the staff will have to buy new ones this year 😀
Are you starting a new job, or becoming a lady (lass) of leisure? 🙂
Becoming a lady of leisure - early retirement on health grounds. No more Monday blues for me 😂
I'm sorry to hear it's on health grounds @Cork Lass, but still can't help being jealous! 😂
Just think of early January when you don't have to drag yourself into the office after the Christmas. 😁
Nothing to be sorry for @Posy this is a very positive outcome for me and I'm very happy about it. Looking forward to spending lots of time away and will definitely have a smile on my face as I turn over in a warm bed on the cold winter mornings thinking of everyone getting ready for work 😂😂.
Good luck @Cork Lass. I wonder will your former colleagues be wondering why you took the decorations?
Thanks @freshpopcorn, no - they know I'm taking them as there are too many memories attached to them to part with them. They are mostly Christmas beanies and decorations from Disneyland that the kids collected when they were young so they will want to hold on to them.
I see what you did there 😂
Perfect excuse to get this for the tree,
Ha Ha, I love it, will definitely get that.
The very best of luck @Cork Lass with this next phase of your life. You can't beat taking a positive step. You are really going to enjoy the countdown to Christmas this year.
Looking for ideas of how to tell our kids we are going to Lapland this year, if anyone has any ideas?
We don't want to tell them too far in advance because we'll never hear the end of it. We are thinking maybe a week or so before. Maybe the first weekend in December when we put up the tree.
Our ideas so far are:
It's going to be quite a pared back Christmas in many other ways, as this trip is expensive.
Hi @Sunrise_Sunset A trip to Lapland sounds great, you could try this:
https://www.trip-tees.co.uk/shop/personalise-me-lapland-holiday-reveal-mdf-25-piece-jigsaw
Very jealous reading your post here Sunrise, would have loved to do the whole Santa and Lapland trip when my kids were young. That jigsaw is a great idea or maybe mail them a Christmas card to your house and address it from Santa.
Definitely getting the Christmas tingle today for some reason, wanted to go to the Christmas shop to get lights but have a few bills this week and it was a lot cooler out walking the dog this evening.
That looks great! Definitely an option, thank you!
Yeah I could post the invitations in a card. I have access to Canva so I can design something nice for free.
My kids aren't that young. We were supposed to go to Lapland last year but cancelled. Might be pushing it this year with my eldest, although they are both still believers, so fingers crossed!
Definitely very Autumnal out there today! I was looking at both Halloween and Christmas stuff on the Dunnes website.
Last Sunday evening without redzone... once the NFL season starts you know its the BER months!
My sister got scratch cards made for her kids last Christmas. Similar to these.
Spotted selection boxes in Tesco today. Ffs
As some of you know, I work for Tayto and the party boxes are starting to get made tomorrow so you can expect to see them in the shops in the next couple of weeks.
Oh wow, I love this!!! TY
I brought the kids to the BT Christmas shop at the week, for the kids... its a small section at the moment and but had some lovely stuff. The dog being my favourite, sadly I dont think it would fit in a suitcase. Added the picture of the tree price, no idea what they will be decorating it with for 3k.
To be fair €3k sounds alot. Those decorations wouldn't be my style. However, my tree is mainly newbridge, Genesis, Waterford Crystal and those ceramic personalised ones.....if I was to tot all the decorations up I doubt I'd have change from €3k. I couldn't justify paying €3k all at once though!
We're into the 110's!
Mad thing about Waterford Crystal is loads of houses have cabinets full of the stuff here in Waterford. With so many people working there down through the decades stuff just got accumulated ha. And the real stuff too from before the last twenty years or so where they changed the process apparently. Sadly no Christmas decorations in my parents house. Must ask them why. My father was a master blower there for years.
Open to correction on this. My ones are packaged as Waterford Crystal but I think the glass is Polish. Then other ones have no glass at all, they are similar to fresh popcorns picture, the bauble with the side pushed in and a crinkle insert.
They are recent purchases certainly after factory closed down
Yeah they moved the operation to Poland I think a few years ago and kept a small skeleton operation here in Waterford. It's still valuable (,don't let me take anything away from it) . It's just the older stuff is more sought after as it was hand crafted etc.
You have me raging a bit now that we never had any Christmas decorations like that 😂
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