Re: Christmas in July is coming !

Carriestp · ‎11-04-2010

SharkE · ‎08-19-2010

@colliegirls wrote:
Better yet!! Shark week is coming on Discovery Channel!!!

YAY! I love sharks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROFLMAO

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

I love sharks, too! I sure do miss swimming with them.

I hope there is some new stuff this year for Shark Week. CIJ, no thank you. But SW I can get into for sure.

colliegirls · ‎05-13-2012

@Ms X wrote:
I really hate Christmas in July. I wonder whether those who like it live in the south and so are used to a warm Christmas rather than the frozen, white Christmas we have up north. When the fabulous, all-too-short summer is here, the last thing I want to think about is Christmas! I love southerners, but their Christmas is very different from ours. I remember a show on HGTV years ago about Christmas decorating outdoors. They showed IIRC Californians having a parade of boats festooned in Christmas lights that was really beautiful. It was amazing to see that everyone was dressed basically in summer clothes. Christmas is way different in the Land of the Endless Summer, so maybe it's not so objectionable in July.

Not all of the south is Florida with hot Christmases. We live in the south, from the North, and no, I do not like Christmas in July when it is in the 90s here now. I like holidays in the month in which they are celebrated!! There is so much overkill about Christmas.

colliegirls · ‎05-13-2012

@chickenbutt wrote:
I love sharks, too! I sure do miss swimming with them.

I hope there is some new stuff this year for Shark Week. CIJ, no thank you. But SW I can get into for sure.

Shark Week
Discovery, Sunday, 8 ET/PT

It’s back: that semi-scientific, sea-based film festival that fans of seal- and penguin-chomping love and sharks despise, assuming sharks have any idea Discovery's obsessed with them. First up:Tiger Beach (8 ET/PT), Return of Monster Mako (9 ET/PT) and Isle of Jaws (10 ET/PT). If, however, you’re looking for the yin and yang of Shark Week, an event that has mostly succeeded in making people overestimate the risk of shark attacks and underestimate the risk we pose to sharks’ survival, you’ll find it in two upcoming films: Sharks Among Us (Monday, 10 ET/PT), which attempts to calm shark-attack anxiety and convince us man and animal can coexist; and Wrath of a Great White Serial Killer (Tuesday, 9 ET/PT) — the goal of which is pretty self-evident.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@pattypeep wrote:
I love CIJ !! Does anyone know when Valerie's first show is? PS: I don't engage in Facebook.

She is having the TSV on July 1st.

Also, you don't have to belong to Facebook to see the public pages of vendors like Valerie, or the hosts here at Q.

Valerie always posts a sneak peek a day or two before her shows, so it pays to check in on her FB page.

@pattypeep

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@Ms X wrote:
I really hate Christmas in July. I wonder whether those who like it live in the south and so are used to a warm Christmas rather than the frozen, white Christmas we have up north. When the fabulous, all-too-short summer is here, the last thing I want to think about is Christmas! I love southerners, but their Christmas is very different from ours. I remember a show on HGTV years ago about Christmas decorating outdoors. They showed IIRC Californians having a parade of boats festooned in Christmas lights that was really beautiful. It was amazing to see that everyone was dressed basically in summer clothes. Christmas is way different in the Land of the Endless Summer, so maybe it's not so objectionable in July.

Always living in Ohio, we are used to at least a cold Christmas, even when it isn't so white (often it will snow nicely the week after Christmas!!).

We used to visit our grandparents in southern Florida for Christmas several different years when we were kids, and it certainly is a different experience for those of us from the north.

I think people love CIJ because it is just fun, a break from the heat, a reason to shop (well, who really needs a reason?!), and they just like anything Christmas at any time of the year.

It used to be just a day or a weekend event, and has broadened to appearing throughout the whole month, and I can see where that is getting to be a bit too much for many people.

But the fact of the matter has been the last couple of years, that most of the 'good' Christmas decor comes out during CIJ, and the offerings after that are kind of anticlimactic. So even people who don't stay up for 48 hours, make cookies, and binge watch Q still want to check it out to see what is new (or those quick sell outs from last year returning).

Full disclousure....I have Christmas music playing on my computer as I type this.

Ms X · ‎09-13-2012

That's very interesting, @Mominohio. I'm quite a bit north of you, but you also have cold weather. I can't stand the idea of Christmas in the heat. Given what you said about the quality of decorations in July vs. later, I just might have to check out the offerings on qvc.com, though.

candys mine · ‎08-20-2012

I don't mind Christmas in July at all. I like to make my decorating plans ahead of time and this is when I get my Ideas. Plus If I am Going to buy something I'd rather pay the CIJ price than more for the same thing later. I'd much rather watch CIJ programming than Shoes or Handbags!