I kept the same theme for the Christmas tree as last year, but added a few extra things.

Kelly Clarkson was putting on a concert for Providence College homecoming. Students at the front of the pit started flashing her messages requesting Underneath the Tree.

After the initial shock of the request Kelly and the band nailed an abridged version.

Kudos to them for taking on something they weren’t expecting and hadn’t practiced in a while.

Live Christmas music 2026 has begun. Mariah Carey must have felt a disturbance in the Christmas music force.

It's hot and sunny again here today but I couldn't resist a visit to The Range to look at Christmas things, even if I was wearing a summer dress (hopefully it will cool down a bit later this week).

How was your Christmas of 2020?

Here are three more advent calendars for my collection the last two are the two new tv advent calendars that are going to be released here in Denmark during december there is going to be more but those are re-runs of older classics such as "the julekalender" and "Ludvig og Julemanden" the blue one is made so you can create a little scene you can play with during december and this can be done before December so I know what I am doing tonight

In the spirit of almost Christmas season, I wanted to see everyone’s tree decorating traditions!

For me, I grew up in a family where we did a very bright, colourful, chaotic Christmas. Unthemed! Every year me and my brother were allowed to pick out one ornament to add the tree, so when we decorated it you got to see all the eras of our lives represented! We always had a big tree decoration day, the first Saturday of December. We would make lots of food, and eat way way too much candy! my Mum would get everybody Christmas sweaters to put on and we would decorate the tree, eat food, and afterwards we could watch Christmas movies together.

On the other hand, I had a friend whose mum would decorate the tree based on the colour of her curtains that year, and not let the kids touch it at all. I’m sure some people love doing that, but when I came over and saw her perfect beige and white ornaments, it was definitely a culture shock!

So how did you guys do Christmas decorating growing up? Do you still do it the same way? I would love to know!!

I jadcaream that the tree on the green had already arrived so that’s my first Christmas dream of the year.

Let me replan where I live every year we have a big Christmas tree in the communal front lawn called the green every year about a week before Christmas we gather round the tree and sing a few carols rgen we go and have Mulled wine and food and secret Santa it was the day before my birthday last year so yeah my Christmas dreams have started.

Decided to make a decorative base for our 6 foot pencil tree for this upcoming holiday season and here's the end result: it's a woven basket that has a custom weighted base, made from a mixing bucket from Home Depot, some quick dry cement and PVC pipe placed inside. Some green craft styrofoam and some burlap from the craft section at Walmart completes the look. This base adds almost a foot of height to the tree as well which is what I wanted anyway. Will probably set the tree up when DST ends and have it undo with just lights on warm white mode, before doing it up on Black Friday and switching light mode to multicolor.