How would you describe your tree style or what makes your tree different than your neighbor?


My tree has a red theme with red and gold wide ribbon streaming down the tree with handmade bamboo snowflakes. We have a tree skirt that is like Santa's suit jacket. I have been wondering if I should change my red ribbon to something different next year but wanted to hear about different or themed trees.

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-Kristi

We don't have anything religious on our tree. Our tree is 9 feet tall with a big red and gold ribbon on the top streaming down with lots of homemade ornaments from the kids and lots of fun colored balls. We have true white LED lights on it

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I don't know if my tree IS that different from my neighbors. We seem to like the same type of decorations. Our tree is HUGE (13 feet and very wide) and is decorated Victorian - style. I've added things from here and there over the years but most of the ornaments have been in my family for several generations.

I don't have a tree, but I helped a friend decorate hers. Hers has white lights, glow-in-the-dark angels, and all the weirdest ornaments she can find or people give her. This year she found a Radko-style monkey in a hula skirt playing a drum. From a distance, it looks like a typical Christmas tree. Up close, you can't stop laughing.

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Mine isn't different but my sons' friends family has an upside down tree. I just don't think I'd like that but to each his own.

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opal ~ is your tree real or artificial? We get a real tree, but the biggest I can ever find is 11 feet. I'd love a 13 or 14 ' tree.

Every year except this year, my tree is full of my grandmother's antique ornaments. The old glass balls, bells, christmas trees and all. And she had alot of kitschty plastic stuff like qewpie dolls, pandas, angels. Every year when we decorate the tree, I like to think of all the other hands that have touched these decorations, especially my grandparents and my mom who are long gone.

This year, however, is our new kitty Serafina's first Christmas. And she is like a bull in a china shop, so we have foregone all breakable Christmas decorations this year. I could not bear to lose any of my old ornaments.

My tree is the same old artificial tree DH and I bought over 20 years. Many people have asked us if it is real.

Happy Holidays to all....

We cut our tree this year in the Tahoe National Forest.
It was 25' and is now displayed at 16.8' in the familyroom.
It is absolutely beautiful with homemade ornaments from the kids.

We do 2 real trees in pots so I can plant them in the yard. One for each of our boys. We usually get ones that are about 3' tall. We have 2 acres with very few trees. We use the mini ornaments from Hallmark that I've collected over the years. Last year we bought 2 maple trees and decorated them like Charlie Brown trees.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone.
Judy

The only thing different about my tree is that I quite frequently have one of the cats sitting in it or climbing it. We have 4 kittens this year, but they are not the real problem, the real problem in the 6 year old cat that every year likes to sit right in the center of the tree. We use the pet deterent spray, but that only lasts a few hours, also use a water spray bottle, but again you have to be right there. We only have unbreakable ornaments and all white lights, tree is about 7 feet tall.

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My tree (9') is especially beautiful this year if I may say so! It's 99% religious with the exception of ornaments with my kids pics in them. I also have glittery pics from Michaels. I put white icicle lights on it and 3 strings of an odd combination I got a few years ago-white, blue, green, red and a purple/pink color. It's so shiny and pretty. I just love it. I also got a 3' white tree-I've NEVER had a colored tree before-that I decorated with 2 sets of red, blue and green ornaments that have religious sayings on that I got at The Family Christian Store. I put on a pretty blue glass garland and a few pics and white lights. It's very pretty too.

We use strings of wooden cranberry beads, tons of white lights all the way through to the trunk, pale gold and cranberry balls, bows in a cream/gold/cranberry plaid that are sheer so the lights show through, and my favorite part is the baby's breath. We put sprigs all over the tree so it looks like snow and it really softens the look of the branches and makes it pretty even when the lights are off.

Maureen