And a very nerdy Christmas/Hanukkah to you!

[vilakins]

I put my tree up today and decorated it with wooden apples, planets glass balls and spaceships. I've had the Liberator on it for the last three or so years and added five Babylon 5 vessels last year (Babylon 5 itself, a Narn fighter, a Centauri heavy warship, a Centauri transport, and a Minbari flyer). This year I've also got Red Dwarf and Starbug. I took pictures because Greg wanted me to e-mail them to him in Singapore.


The tree; you can see the Liberator and the Minbari ship.


The Liberator in stationery orbit (very) over a gas giant. The red bit above it is part of Red Dwarf.


Red Dwarf and Starbug.


The Minbari flyer.

I'll have to acquire some Farscape ships and figures next year. And a bag of DRDs!

Comments

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

That's lovely; very festive. We can't get that type of decorated glass balls here anymore; at least I haven't seen them in years, and I've been looking.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I found a shop a few years ago that imported them from Belgium and I was so enchanted I bought a selection of them--and a tree to put them on. I'd never bothered before that. Sadly, the shop's gone or I'd get some more.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

It looks great!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It cheered me up doing it; now it finally feels holidayish.

Um, I know you hate Christmas and some aspects annoy me too, but in general it means summer and time off work and sun and sea and beaches, yay! Mind you, I adored the snowy Christmas and the markets in Germany when I lived there.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Hee! Loveliest, nerdiest tree ever!:) *hugs* and I love your icon, BTW.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I adore party Chiana. Vila says "Cheers!"

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Yay, geeky tree!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I almost put the little pipecleaner guys on it too but they weren't keen. Plus they were out of scale with the ships.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

They want a diorama with mini over-stuffed chairs in front of a mini fireplace with each of them having a mini glass of grog in their mini hands and admiring a mini triee. :^)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Aww, they do! Dolls' house Liberator with flight deck, galley, little cabins...

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

The idea is immensely appealing. :^)

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

There's something about glass baubles that the others can't match. Mine are all over 50 years old, from when I was a tiny. And then I add the bits made by the offspring when smaller.

My decorations don't go up until the forth sunday in advent.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

I took pictures because Greg wanted me to e-mail them to him in Singapore.


Does this mean he's already gone? When does he get back?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Isn't that really close to Christmas? You can't have your tree long. This is my own tradition if you can call it that when I've only done it for 3-4 years: put the tree up on 6 December (St Nicholas's day--and mine!) and take it down on 6 January, after 12 days of Christmas. I was a day late this year as I was doing laundry for Greg and helping him find things and pack.

He left yesterday and comes back on the 20th, I hope.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Isn't that really close to Christmas?
It's the Sunday before Christmas, and then they stay up until twelfth night same as yours. Some years (this one for instance) gives us a full week, or it can be as short as putting them up on Christmas eve. What's the point of tradition if you don't keep it going?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

So that's what people do in the UK?

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Increasingly they seem to fill the front garden with lights from the beginning of December and switch off on Boxing day (Dec 26) but I don't see why I should change my habits.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

US culture is taking over the world.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Oh, in South Florida people put strings of lights up on their houses as soon as they go on sale and they leave them up until a hurricane blows them off, even if it takes years. Mind you, on Dec. 26th they turn them off.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

LOL! The only lights we have are on the trees you can see in people's windows.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

We tend to run lights along the outside of the houses... wonder if I've got a pic up... oh, yes.

Here's last year's on our house. I was ambitious.

http://homepage.mac.com/shelobmarian/crafts/christmas_decor2.html

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Pretty!

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Cute tree! I usually put mine up on or before my birthday, but I didn't feel like it today... it involves moving a dining room table and a bookcase, dragging out and assembling a 7-ft tall tree... watching 6 cats *disassemble* a 7 -ft tall tree... I think maybe tomorrow will do. :^)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I usually do it on the 6th because it's St Nick's day and easy to remember but I did it a day late this year.

And happy birthday to you and Avon! I'm at work and haven't had a look at my flist yet today.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I'm so behind this year I expect I'll be ready for Christmas about Feb. 14th. :^)

Thanks for b-day greetings. :^)

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

You are organised. Wish I was.

Best I can do in the way of fannish decoration is to say that my mobile phone has the Liberator for its wallpaper.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yay! Go, you!

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! Where did you get the ship ornament?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I got the Liberator from a guy in the UK I was buying zines from, but that original is a bit fragile (a prong is about to break) and in retirement. I got another one with my special edition S3 DVDs. I think I'll call her Libby. :-)

The B5 ships came with the figures I bought on eBay: G'Kar, Londo, Vir, Delenn. and Sheridan.

The Red Dwarf and Starbug I bought from amazon via the lovely kalypso_v because they wouldn't post out of the UK.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

Awesome. And I have NO idea where the "s" in my original post went - I DID want to know about all of them. :)