Sunday 5 December 2010

Advent Calendar - Outdoor decorations

I wasn't going to post anything on today's Advent Calendar, because we didn't go in for outdoor decorations. And then I remembered something; when I was a student we put up some decorations that were designed to be SEEN from outside.

In my first year at university I lived on the third floor of a girls' hall of residence, and the rooms were in groups of four, with large square windows. Someone (and I genuinely can't remember which of us it was) thought it would be a good idea to spell out the words of a Christmas carol across the four windows

So we got some large sheets of shiny red paper, cut out the letters and stuck them in the windows.

Denise's window read:


Mine was:


Elaine hoped people wouldn't think her room was a toilet because her window said:


and finally, Lycia's window:
  

Students!



2 comments:

  1. Love it! Nothing like dorm humor. Not that I remember playing any tricks or anything way back when....

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