Describe your Christmas tree. and how its decorated this year.

[Skidmore]

Got one of those white ones, a silver one, real one, artificial--decorated in all blue, etc.?

Mine is an artificial one that looks pretty realistic. Don't do real ones since I think they should stay rooted in the ground where the seed feel from which they sprung. I decorated my tree with those little mushroom birds that florists use--ducks, geese, doves, cardinals, owls, pheasants, dragonflies, and ladybugs. It has icicles and different snowflakes and pinecones in acrylic or fabrics. Glass balls and bubble lights that look like candles. Little angels peeping out here and there for my granddaughters and trains for my grandson. Topped with a couple of cardinals on a sprig of holly.

[LuLu550]

1. This year is my first for a fake one

it is still in the box.

[SPKrazy]

2. It's Still In Separate Boxes

Several years ago my wife and I were bringing it down from the attic

the ladder broke and the tree came down on top of us, and she on top of me, and somehow neither were hurt, I think i broke her fall. Ouch.

So, it now comes down in separate boxes and well, they are lined up in the hall as they have been for the last week.

:silly:

[LuLu550]

3. So I guess I'm

ahead of you when it comes to putting up the tree, right?

Good thing you guys weren't hurt, because that is a good story!

[SPKrazy]

5. We're Still In The Box Too

just depends where your box for the tree is

:hi:

[LuLu550]

7. downstairs in the cellar

just at the foot of the steps.

Then about 20 feet from where it needs to be set up.

What about you????:eyes:

[SPKrazy]

9. Lined Up In The Hall

can't get down the hall without meeting them

still about 20 feet from where it will go

so it's a tie!

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

15. I'm Winning Now LuLu

I've been summoned to string the lights

[bertha katzenengel]

4. No tree. Must have birds - that is very cool.

[Skidmore]

10. Here is a sampling of these types of bird and critters.

http://www.floraltrims.com/

I buy them at the local hobby store. They are super cheap, the kids love them, and they have the added bonus of not being breakable.

[LuLu550]

6. Your's sounds pretty.

Can you post a pic?

[Maddy McCall]

8. I'm putting mine up tomorrow.

Here's what it looked like in 2004--that's MMjr's yahaha in the foreground:

[xchrom]

11. beatiful tree!

and that bike is cool too!

[TheCentepedeShoes]

12. Green, fake, about 3.5 feet tall

not including the stand. Has colored lights, red and gold tinsel garland, and about 10 fruit-like ornaments (apples, pears, peaches, etc). Sits in a LR window on one of those "decorator tables" covered with a green decorator-table cloth. With lacy stuff to hide the base and decorated metal boxes and a small vase around it. When Xmas is over, I put the ornaments and stuff back in the box and leave the lights on the tree. Put it on a shelf in the garage till next year.
Decorate the mantel with garland, a wreath, two small trees with gold bows and my collection of Xmas bears.
Doggie whines 'cause he wants to play with the bears.
A wreath on the door (more fruit) and a large green wreath with red bow facing the street and that's it.

Yours sounds really nice. We had those candle-shaped bubble lights when I was a kid. Thought they were neat.

[thefool_wa]

13. Our christmas tree is beautifully

Absent.

We plan to spend the holiday at my folks place and all the kids presents are there. We have a small appartment that barely holds the 4 of us and there is no way we could isolate a decorated tree from our 2 year old curiousity monster.

That and last yeat I broke the stand (artificial tree, I hate real ones) so we couldn't decorate it anyways.

Rest assured, we put up lights, and garland and bows and Christmas wall hangings for decorations, just no tree this year.

[Left Is Write]

14. I can do better than tell you...I can show you...

This is the main tree in the living room (the extra chairs are there because we were having a party):




This is a smaller one in the office:




We have a third Christmas tree in the family room also. I'll have to post a pic of that later.

For good measure, here's our fireplace:

[momophile]

16. three feet tall, real, on top of a box on a table so

that momobaby doesn't reach it, nothing but lights on it because we are moving at the end of the month and I have a million things to do and can't take the time to hang up and take down decorations.

[Fenris]

17. 7 ft artificial

Mostly decorated with flamingyouth's terrific Radko ornaments.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. Still in the box. It might stay there this year

because I have a new cat.