I'm planning an old fashioned Christmas

Now is the time to be getting the artificial Christmas trees out of the attic and basement and setting them up for the Christmas lights to go on and to hang Christmas décor. Christmas wreaths hang on the doors and presents are being bought and wrapped up in bright paper.

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We are going to be setting the artificial Christmas tree up here in a couple of days and start putting Christmas gifts under it. I want to create an old fashioned look and feel to the holiday this year, so I am thinking to make most of the decorations for the tree myself. Stuff like gingerbread cookies and fried rosettes and strings of popcorn and cranberries and other festive décor.