All I want for Christmas....

Not my 2 front teeth, I really want a long wool coat with a hood and new boots.
What is everyone looking for under the Christmas tree?

$4 million Mega millions lotto ticket. 2 million for the IRS & 2 million for me!
- and NO I'm not donating any of it to charity... the IRS can do that if they want to! lol! ☺!

Edit: beautiful tree BTW!

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Thanks, that was last years silver themed. This year I'll do a gold motif.

winning lottery ticket would be nice... but I really don't have anything in mind this year

Pretty tree, Jen. I think you left out the helpful, cooking man from your dream!

Not asking for anything. All about the kids now. My wife and I only exchange one small gift.

All about the grandkids here. My husband and I usually get each other something small, but we love shopping for the grandkids. And my daughter and her husband, of course.

I'm not much of a collector, but I do love Christmas items as we're Christmas tree farmers. So, I bet my present will be a Thomas Kinkade something.

Thomas Kinkade anything IS nice. ^_^
I go big on Christmas, but I really usually only want gift certif. for plants/trees for myself. lol
OK, maybe a lens for my camera.... I want to 'reach out and touch' the eagle when it swoops down for the kill in my field! I can't tell you how many times i've watched them hunt only to get a blurry blob of wings on the camera screen. Maddening!

Already asked for a more powerful garden hand clipper. Big present-oldest DD & SIL & GD are coming over that weekend!!!!!!!!!!!

Family is the biggest present for sure, Lucy.

But if I must be materialistic, I do love Thomas Kinkade Christmas decorations. This is the one I've been eyeing for this year. I can see this sitting in the middle of my table. My granddaughter will be entranced.

http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Kinkade-Home-Holidays-Collectible/dp/B001L8G1D0

I can see why polly, it's beautiful!

Thomas who? what? that is not a joke, never heard of him. About time to put up the 2 wooden swedish Christmas trees on the mantle piece. DD has collected dept 56 New England village, but they are now up all yr as there are too many to take up & down. The cats seem to leave them alone. She won't see this post until after she returns from work.

almost done with my shopping here - i get a present for each daughter, my parents and in-law's, wife gets spoiled with a expensive piece of jewellery and several other gifts. for me it usually is a few gift certificates for plants from my wife, in-laws and santa (he a great guy!). and while out shopping i'll grab a couple things i need that i know my wife will not think of, an example this year will be some cheap long sleeve henley shirts i can wear in the yard, get filthy and beat up.

and i might surprise myself with a granite japanese lantern - have found one place in mass that sells them - my father has asked me and my brother to go down to cape to rake his yard, claiming he can't do it (he must have forgotten he told me he raked his neighbors yard a few weeks ago!), 3 hour round trip drive. The place is just off the highway on the way down - coincidence??

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I just bought a Kinkade desk calendar for next year.

Shipping, Bill?? Send something here!

is that guy that makes those woodland paintings with a cottage or old mill by a waterfall?

i thought i edited before being spotted - secret is out!

http://www.thomaskinkade.com/magi/servlet/com.asucon.ebiz.catalog.web.tk.CatalogServlet?catalogAction=ArtHome

Not a material girl here. Maybe some new T-Shirts. Instant win Tickets. Enough to scratch for say 4 years.

I love Dept 56, Lucy. I have gotten my daughter and the grandkids snowbabies now since the kids were born, and Michelle before that. I just love those little villages, too.

Thomas Kincade is known as "The Painter of Light" , he paints the most beautiful paintings , serenity, tranquillity, ect...
This is one of my favorites:
http://www.thomaskinkade.com/magi/servlet/com.asucon.ebiz.catalog.web.tk.CatalogServlet?catalogAction=Product&productId=203076&menuNdx=0.10
Another one i like alot is called 'Juliannes Cottage' it was once owned by Beatrice Potter.
http://www.thomaskinkadegallery.com/painting.php?id=180

WC has the right idea. Grandkids get $$$ since I cannot get out much to shop now a days and besides they know better what they want and need. Mostly I want it to be over fast, plow through Jan and dash through Feb so I can get out in the garden again. Oh and if Santa could bring some nice warm evenly rain and sun weather for next season, that would be perfect. HoHoHo! :)

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not a kinkade fan

I want a credit card for the Vets that pays itself! Holly's X-rays are going out to a radiologist to be digitized and read this morning. Poor girl has arthritis and she is only 10! (Probably not her best idea to start living on top of the refrigerator.) It is in her front legs so jumping up is fine - going down must be painful. She spent the night at the vets Friday and I missed her company while I washed the dishes. She is the perfect kitchen appliance!

I used to be good on gift giving, sending loads of stuff from wherever I happened to be in the world. But now that I'm settled in here I ask for specifics so they get what they really want. Then I make that list practical. No, I am not buying any Wi Fi's.

On my list is a greenhouse, a composter with turnable handles and to buy the property next door so I can tear down that house and expand my garden. Not too much, methinks.

No Bill? More of a John Deere kind of guy? lol
http://www.freespiritart.com/neal-anderson-art.php

Yank hope things turn out OK, just like kids aren't they?

jada it is good you are thinking small gifts.

not john deere either celeste :)

kinkade's are colorful just not very realistic looking, look too computer generated in my opinion - although i know there are many stores and they are very popular.

the water colors joann does are fantastic and more my taste.

I want to live "in" a Kincaid painting! LOL! Serenity....
Beautiful tree Jen!

greer gardens has just offered thier annual gift certificate special of up to 30% off.

http://greergardens.com/gift_certificatesDiscount.htm

I'll dmail you with my address, Bill. ^_^

(Looks like 20% to me. $80 for a $100 certificate.)

good - i'll have burning bushes and barberry coming your way!

yes - 20% my mistake - still a good deal as you are not limited to overstock items

If your giving away burning bushes, just send them here. I've killed 3 so far......

celeste if you really want some i will deliver trimmed down full size bushes at the next ru we both attend. i've burnt about 10 this fall with more that can be destroyed.

I do, and it's a deal!! Maybe by that time I can dig a boulder up for trade. ^_^

quartz is a favorite - pink one please:)

Are you talking boulder or pebble?

Bill, I don't think Kinkade paintings look real. To me they're dream like. But it is mainly his tree and ornaments I like, although I love the paintings also.

Here's a couple of them I have, and I really don't know how to show them without the prices. But they are my only indulgences, other than plants.

http://www.clevershoppers.com/collectibles-343/christmas-collections-383/kinkade-holiday-celebration-rotating-tabletop-christmas-tree-2295.html

http://www.enchantedgc.com/thomas-kinkade-wonderland-express-animated-tabletop-christmas-tree-with-train-p-7760.html?ref=557

And my favorite:
http://www.enchantedgc.com/thomas-kinkade-wonderland-express-animated-tabletop-christmas-tree-with-train-p-7760.html?ref=557

I have a really cool rock in my front yard that I can give you. It has druzy crystals of kind of pink and tan quartz.

phoebe a boulder would be great and i know where there are some close to here although not pink - it is the backloader driving through conservation land that may cause attention and provides them protection:)

anything up to 150 pds would be rule of thumb - i'm sure the one louise and hank gave me was that size.

yankee cat that is a generous offer - if it is that cool you should try and do something with it.

polly those trees are nice - i am a sucker for christmas ornaments.

forgot that santa ordered me a book that was referred too in a book my mil gave me a couple weeks ago called stone by stone which was written by robert thorson. this started with the creation of the earth and detailed the different periods of earth's exsistentance, how stones are made, to the european settlers arriving here and the landscape they found, to finally getting to the stones walls of new england - interesting book - the new one santa got me is, stone in the garden by gordon hayward. It has detailed designs and projects.