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1. about 6 hours ago on Rose is Rose

   I am Jewish – never had a Christmas tree, other than in elementary school there was one decorated in each classroom.

   My husband is Catholic. He decorates outside with my help. I decorate inside. Now up to 4 Christmas trees plus a beaded one I made. The excess sort of came about organically. We had a big tree (all trees artificial as that is what his family always had) in the living room. We had found a wholesaler in Manhattan who opened to the public between Thanksgiving and Christmas – and that was after we had plenty of ornaments for the tree – we get one as souvenir when we travel.

   We had gotten a new tree one year, but before we threw out the one we had used in years past I kept the top of the old one and had him make a base for it. I took some of the excess teddy bear ornaments and put them on this small tree which was upstairs in “the teddys room”. This has since developed into a year round village of teddy and other bears – figurines, small stuffed, plastic etc. The village gets changed month by month to the new theme 11 times a year.

   Then I realized that the tree was being taken over by the brass ornaments we get from Col. Williamsburg as donors. So,,,, yes, our dining room which is decorated in 18th century (though tree and ornaments not appropriate to same) now has a tree with most of these ornaments.

   Another couple of years go past. We each work in an assortment of craft media and have made many ornaments over the years. Sooo, we bought another small tree and we put it in our studio – where it can be seen easily from the kitchen – and put most of our handmade ornaments on it – keeping some on the main tree.

   Living room has the big main tree with mixed ornaments that go with these trees, as well as filled in by other ornaments.

   And just for fun- I made a beaded Christmas tree (about a foot tall) and ornaments for it.

   And we also have a Chanukah Menorah (candelabra) for same.

2. about 6 hours ago on Rose is Rose

   Thank you – the same to you also!

3. about 6 hours ago on Rose is Rose

   Husband is actually very artistic and he works in an assortment of media – currently he is doing woodworking (including turning) as well as loom weaving. He has a woodwork shop in the basement and another in our garage. He will soon be forced to stop weaving until January as his looms are in our living room and our tree goes where his loom is. We have a general studio space behind our kitchen which we share.

   I do hand embroidery and demonstrate same at 18th century reenactments. I also sew – and have made all of our period clothing.

4. about 6 hours ago on Baldo

   Not completely full though – some books are standing on angles which means there is room for more books and there are no books shoved on the top of the standing books nor is there a second row of books on each shelf in front of the other books.

   Trust me – I have to do this with our books to have room to fit them all on shelves – 5 – 6 ft tall bookcases and 4 half height ones. They are all 2 books deep with books lying on top of books to fill in all the room – plus books on top of the case of course. Oh wait, I forgot the half height tall, 5 ft long bookcase in the bedroom with most of his James Bond collection.

   And each shelf is 2 books deep.

5. about 6 hours ago on Baldo

   We go to a number of stores, as mentioned in another post, where they are pricing with stick on prices and ring up the items by hand.

6. about 6 hours ago on Baldo

   A few of the local stores we go to do not use price gun or scanner and have a price tag on each item.

   When husband and I are selling our works (he does weaving, I have some small bears I have hand stitched in the past) at various events events we have either have items price tagged or, for small inexpensive items, a price sign. We do not use a bar code machine or, price gun, or scanner.

7. about 6 hours ago on Baldo

   When I was young it was “telegram, telephone and tell a woman”.

8. about 6 hours ago on Baldo

   Glad my voice is not online or on social media including FB,

9. about 6 hours ago on Baldo

   We have an answering machine on our home line all the time. My parents did/mom does this also. Anyone who calls gets the machine. They can leave a message or not. If it someone I want to/need to talk to I pick up, if not I don’t. No name on our outgoing message either.

   When my baby sister was young something happened (I forget what and I almost older enough to be her mom) and she had the school nurse or whoever call me. I was home and I heard the woman saying to her “There’s no one there.” and my sister saying “just tell them that you are calling about me and the phone will answer”. ) And, yes, I grabbed up the phone to find out what was happening and then drove to her school to pick her up as she was not feeling well.

   With my cell phone or my husband’s – if it rings it is not answered unless we know who is calling. Anyone else can leave a message.

10. about 7 hours ago on Baldo

    Mom gave me the fixed allowance (as mentioned above) and any jobs she needed done I had to do – separate from the allowance – with no payment for same. Just my part in what needed to be done for the family.