Is your wreath up yet?

I've never tried them, but I may have a look in Wilko, I quite fancy some now.

Thank you! I will toddle along to B&Q on Friday and have a look.

Ah Ha! My Googling suggest battery operated LED lights might just work. Has anyone tried them and how long do batteries last?

Jud my friend used to put her Christmas tree in the large wooden playpen to keep dogs and children away from it!

Oh dear, we are behind, will have to get cracking this weekend.

Nelliemoser can you attach those little candles to it (battery operated?) or battery operated lights?

something like these - other ones are available if you google
www.lights4fun.co.uk/c/q/christmas-lights/indoor-christmas-lights/battery-christmas-lights

My wreath is up in the porch but the porch light is behind it and it's not very visible. I am not sure how to improve this.
I can't get another cable out to it.

I will have to have a think.

I bought a wreath hanger this afternoon - that's a start I suppose!

Tree and decks up. And look what I got at the Belfast Christmas market yesterday! One for the birds in our garden.

BTW the gate round the Christmas tree is to keep nosy dog out.

I should have put a disclaimer at the bottom of my post Penstemmon

Intersesting if inaccurate link about wreaths! The thought that holly is a common bush in Roman occupied Palestine is odd!

Nelliemoser that's just gorgeous !

holidappy.com/holidays/History-of-the-Christmas-Wreath
www.intermistletoe.co.uk/christmas_door_wreath_traditions.shtml

Origins of the Christmas wreath

hildajenni the way the wreath is hung in the first link is how we hang ours - the hook over the door (but no reindeer although I may look for one now).

Personally I think it is ridiculous to have decorations up for such a long time but if it floats your boat that is fine!!
I love Christmas and its specialness which, for me, becomes less special if it goes on for weeks!
I guess we may put up the decorations the weekend before Christmas. As a child it was much more traditional to put the tree up on Christmas Eve eve!!

However have made a crazy pom pom wreath in anticipation!

We put ours up on the 1st. Have never put them up so early before but this is our first Christmas in our new home and we couldn't wait.

Thank you. I thought of the ribbon and hook idea last year (having lived here for 20 years - real quick thinking!!!)

Lovely photos mcem. Good idea re the cup hook and ribbon hanger for the wreath. I may well steal your idea as the rusty hook looks a bit shabby the rest of the year

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I'm happy to start when Advent starts so tree went up on Monday, wreath installed on Wed and wrapping of (adult) presents now well under way.
I loop ribbon through the wreath then take ribbon over the top of the door and attach it to a brass cup hook, tying a bow and adding small decorations.

Lewlew thanks for the wreath walk link. Aren't they beautiful?
Have not put up anything yet, we always used to wait for the end of term, but DC now put theirs up very early as a result!
Never had a wreath stolen, although it is just on a hook. Googled and there are lots of over the door hooks available.
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Premier-38cm-Jingle-Bell-Metal-Christmas-Wreath-Hanger-Red-/311707240252

Am going to wait a bit longer as the singing , gyrating , Elvis- like Santa that is DH's pride and joy terrifies the dogs!

Victorian Christmas cards often show wreaths on the front door, don't they, but I certainly don't remember them from my childhood (not Victorian, I hasten to add!)? There are Advent wreaths, of course, but not the same shape (Blue Peter used to make them with a couple of coathangers and a few lengths of tinsel.

A woman after my own heart

When the decorating was done, he and I would start on the three litre wine box which would last the whole holiday
only now it would be more like half way through Christmas afternoon!
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LumpySpacedPrincess Ooooooh, nice tree, nice deccies!!

annodomini Yes, I posted that my husband was puzzled about this when we lived in the US.

I don't know if it started there, but being from New England, people put wreaths on the door and leave them up till way after New Year, some even till March! In colonial days I read once that they are a sign of hospitality and because of difficulty getting round in the snow by horse or on foot, it took a while for visitors to make their holiday visits. I have never been able to verify that.

Where we lived some left their outdoor lights etc up until spring, but did not turn them on after the 6th Jan. It could be really cold and the wires would get brittle, or snow too deep to get up on the ladder, so they'd stay on the house till it was milder and sometimes that was spring.

In Williamsburg Virginia, they have a wreath walk as the houses are not open. These are gorgeous!

www.sayhellotoamerica.com/colonial-williamsburg-christmas-wreaths/

When did this 'custom' of putting a wreath on the door start? I don't remember it from my youth or even later. I don't have a hook or a nail on my front door and have no intention of marring its pristine surface. I don't see many - if any wreaths around here. Our front doors are only a couple of metres, if that, from the road and a wreath would either disappear or be grit and salt spattered but passing traffic. I have a tiny tree which will go up the week after next when my DS and two GSs are coming to visit.

Like the last one. Wot wreath?

I keep misreading the title asIs your WRATH up yet,

I view of other posts/threads I think it quite appropriate

dont bother with decorations anymore as Im on my own I dont see the point.