What do your Christmas Trees look like?

[ThomCat]

Underpants just put up two trees, and I guess a lot of people put up their trees right after Thanksgiving.

I won't have one.

I am not sure I'll get to see any, except the public ones in lobbys.

So I'd love to see what your Christmas trees look like. Can you post some pictures? Lights? Tinsel? Strings of beads or popcorn? What kind of decorations do you have?

[underpants]

1. It's green

lights too

[ThomCat]

3. That's it?

No other decorations? :wow:

[underpants]

54. Not yet

our girl is at my folks' place so mom and her will decorate it when she gets home tomorrow

My wife basically goes with a "wooden" look for the ornaments with some basic red and green bulbs.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. We won't have one either...A) 2 crazy cats, and B)

No space. I miss having a tree. x(

[ThomCat]

5. Your cats are young enough to climb

and play with all the ornaments. That would be an invitation for all kinds of mischief.

I have one cat who is too old and fat to climb, and the other one would happily just sit and hide under a tree.

I used to love having a tree back when I had roommates who wanted one. :)

[AlCzervik]

we have a small fake one, fits right on a table.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. me too.

real small and real fake. :hi:

[AlCzervik]

12. yup, pre lit even, plug it in and voila! instant Christmas.

:toast:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

23. easy peasy...

:toast:

[ThomCat]

8. I hope it's beautiful.

:)

I always loved the smell of pine, and I liked designing a different look for the tree every year. But now that I couldn't do any of that even if I wanted to, I can see the attractiveness of having a small ready-made tree that is done right out of the box.

[AlCzervik]

10. we used to get real ones once we had our own place but a few years ago we went

away the week before Christmas so i bought the small fake one and since then that's what i've put up, i do love real ones but they have gotten really expensive and they're a mess.

[DS1]

4. empty shelf

[ThomCat]

6. Do you decorate the shelf?

:P

Or is that the ultimate in minimalist christmas decorations?

[DS1]

14. no point

I'm the only one who will see it

[ThomCat]

17. Ah..

I didn't realize you lived alone. That makes a lot of sense. That's the same reason I don't decorate. There is no point decorating when nobody else will see it.

:(

[malta blue]

9. I will put up a tree in a couple of weeks....

I have been trying to save up for an aluminum tree with a color wheel, but this year it will not happen.

My tree will have all sorts of ornaments that I have collected on my travels, and some handmade ones that my grandmother made. I will have to leave the lower 3rd naked because of Zeus. Otherwise, I will probably end up at the vet or something like that.

:hug:

[ThomCat]

13. When you put it up

I'd love to see a picture or two. :)

[malta blue]

22. You will Thom

:hug:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

11. Last time she visited, my mom brought me one of ours

I put it up in the living room and it makes the whole place much nicer. I'll be getting tinsel for the novelty of it, because we've never had any due to the cats and their mouthiness. :P

[ThomCat]

15. Knowing how much your mom loves Christmas

I would be very surprised if you don't have some wonderful decorations to use in your apartment. :)

Please post some pictures when you can. It will share some holiday cheer. :7

[LadyoftheRabbits]

26. Here's a camera phone one

:D

[trof]

16. Skinny artificial. About 8' high.

Because Miz t. said "We shouldn't cut down any more trees. I want a tall skinny artificial one. I know it's probably made out of oil or something nasty, but it's a one time purchase."
Her wish is my command.
And it kinda makes sense.
We bought it 5 years ago.

All white LED mini-lights.
Minimal electricity.
This year it's all silver decorations.
Very pretty.
She's a real artiste.
;-)

[ThomCat]

18. That sounds beautiful.

:)

I used to always get huge friggin Noble Pines back when I used to have a tree. They had thick waxy needles and lasted for months.

The stores have fantastic looking artificial trees out now, and it does save on cut trees.

[trof]

28. We used to cut our own in NH and here in Alabama.

In NH our daughter was a kid and it was a traditional family outing.
Usually in the snow.
She and Miz t. and I and the dog in the pick up.
Search through the acres of the Christmas Tree Farm for just the perfect one.
I'd cut it down with a big bow saw and we'd carry it back to the truck.
I think they were about ten dollars.

Once we got it home and set up we'd build a big fire in the fireplace and have mulled wine, or glug, or hot buttered rum.
Our daughter had cocoa.
;-)

[buckettgirl]

19. Mine is a sorry sight

I have a 4ft tall fiber optic tree.
it is leaning alot to the left. I can't get it to stand up straight. I have it sitting up on an end table in front of my picture window in the living room.
I put a red garland with gold stars on it. I have little miniature gold balls and little snowmen and santa ornaments. The top has a gold 5 pointed star with little beads and stars on it.
I have a large quilted christmas tree skirt- in green, red, gold, and white fabrics- which drapes nicely on the end table.

I told my husband that we need to buy a new tree next year. This was our "first" christmas tree - our house was always too small, so we used a small ceramic tree made by my great aunt for several years - it sat on our dining table. I would like to buy a 7ft tree, but they are so expensive.

[ThomCat]

35. If you celebrate Chrismas then a good tree

is a good investment. :)

It sounds like your tree was beautiful when it was new.

[Bluzmann57]

20. Like this

Still nothing.

[ThomCat]

36. Yeah, mine looks like that too.

:P

I hope that's because you don't intend to have a tree.

If you want a tree and don't have one then that's kind of sad. :(

[Ptah]

21. These decorations are among my favorites:

Here's a table top tree my daughter did:

[ThomCat]

37. Are those pine cone decorations on the tabletop tree?

That's beautiful! :)

I like trees that have personal ornaments on them that show family history. It makes the trees look personal.

[Generic Brad]

24. Aw, crap!

I knew I forgot something. But it's understandable to forget, seeing as how we are not exchanging gifts this year.

[ThomCat]

38. A lot of people are not exchanging gifts this year.

So many people are out of work, or barely making it, that gifts are a luxury too may people can't afford. But it's nice to have the decorations and the spirit. :)

If you can have a tree I hope you have a beautiful one.

[Haole Girl]

25. You asked, here are some pics:

The big tree:



The little tree:



Ornaments:

[ThomCat]

39. Yay! Very cool!

You do a wonderful job decorating trees. :)

Thank you!

[femmocrat]

27. We don't put it up until the weekend before Christmas.

I couldn't stand having a tree sitting there for a whole month. I have lots of Hallmark ornaments that I have collected over the years. Then I can't wait to pack it all away!

WB, ThomCat. Nice to see you again. :hi:

[ThomCat]

40. Hi Femmocrat!

I was the opposite. I wanted it up for all of December and January, but I know a lot of people who only kept their tree up for a week, total.

:shrug:

When you put it up please post a picture. :)

Hallmark makes a huge number of beautiful ornaments. I like some of the geeky star wars ones. :P

[flvegan]

29. Don't have/put up one.

I'm a serious bah humbug about Christmas.

[ThomCat]

42. I am bah humbug about religion, but not about celbrating

with people. :)

I love christmas trees. I wish we could have christmas wiuth all the lights but without the commercials.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

30. Fake, about 4 ft tall with stand

sits on table set up in a LR window.
We keep the lights and garland on while stored in garage, covered with part of an old sheet. I put on some fruit/veggie ornaments that I got years ago at Esposito's in Tally.
Decorate the mantle with the bears and some other stuff, put up the outside wreaths (no lights).
Takes about 45 min on T-day.

Edit sloppy spelling

[ThomCat]

44. I love wreaths, especially if they are creative and well done.

:)

Putting fruits and veggies on a tree seems a bit weird but I imagine that looks really cool.

[mnhtnbb]

31. 4 ft. tabletop with pre-wired white lights. We used to buy a live 5-6 ft tree

and decorate it with ornaments collected over the years--even some that belonged to my parents from
the late 40's. We salvaged exactly 3 family ornaments from the fire that burned down our house a year ago.

I've bought all tropical type ornaments--butterflies, orchids, shells, hummingbirds--for our little
fake tree. It's actually quite pretty.

[ThomCat]

45. Wow. I'm very sorry about that fire.

:(

That kind of a loss had to be tough.

The new ornaments sounds beautiful though. :)

[redqueen]

32. It's fake and it has ornaments and a few bead garlands

hot-glued onto the branches.

My SIL is artsy craftsy... I'm borrowing one of their extra trees again this year because I'm miserly.

We don't have it up yet, we're putting it up tomorrow. I could post last year's picture...

[ThomCat]

46. That's cool if she makes artsy craftsy trees.

:)

I love bead garlands. They are way under-used.

[redqueen]

47. It's a great idea.

No decorating necessary... just assemble and voila! Instant Christmas tree! :D

I do add my own ornaments though. :)

When I was a kid I'd steal the bead garlands to 'make jewelry' :P

[AwakeAtLast]

33. I will PM you a pic when I get it up

I've never sent a pic by PM, though so I hope you can do that.

It's 6ft. pre-lit w/ white lights, decorated with mostly red, green, and gold colors. Most of my ornaments are musical notes and instruments (I'm a Music Teacher).

If Mr. WMU gets our lights up this year, I'll try to get a pic of those, too.

[ThomCat]

48. That sounds like a wonderfully classic themed three.

Very cool! I'll look forward to seeing it. :)

I hope Mr. WMU is careful putting up those lights.

[yellowdogintexas]

34. Mine never goes up this early. I have three; if I don't have help I use one of the

small ones and if I have help I use the 8 foot tall one.

I don't have any tree pictures that I can upload right now, but when we do the big tree, we put alternating multicolored and all white strings of lights on the tree. Then we hang all the many ornaments we have collected over 26 years of marriage, plus some I already had when we got married.

Our tree is like a scrapbook. We buy ornaments when we travel, so we have some strange things: cactus made of green barbed wire, miniature pueblo, bats, The Alamo, Old Faithful, Mammoth Cave, The Minute Men, fish, etc; some really neat ones from various historic homes etc. Then there are the many kittycat ornaments, and train ornaments and the photo of our daughter every year since she was born in a picture frame ornament. There are jingle bells, regular bells, crystal, Nutcracker Suite characters, a unicorn, angels, hearts. We even have a bread dough sculpture of a caver rapelling down into a pit.

No tinsel, the cats eat it and barf. We have odds and ends of centerpieces, figurines candles etc and I have a much loved collection of Lladro Christmas bells which I arrange on a table

If I am feeling industrious enough, I hang wreaths on my french doors and hang a lighted garland around them.

We put red lights outside the house, and last year we got some red and white candycanes as well. I hang a wreath on my front porch.

I have pictures of our trees, they are just not in the computer, and the scanner and the computer are not speaking to one another these days, however here are a few of some crafts from prior years:







(this is Demon, the mother of our 3 large cats, having captured my door wreath. This is my favorite photo of her )

[ThomCat]

49. Wow! It sounds like you've got a lot of work to do

just to decide what to do each year. But I'll bet it looks great when you're done. :)

That has to be a bit of work though, and probably take a lot of storage space.

[yellowdogintexas]

64. we do have a nice attic, floored and insulated. My husband build some nice

deep storage units. and there is a large room under the eaves as well.

If he comes in from the field in time we will put up the big tree. If he does not I will get out the smaller table top tree and put out more of the accessories.

It does look nice when we are done, if I do say so myself.

I do leave it up longer than most people, it is a lot of work to take down and put away too!

[tigereye]

41. real tree, usually a Douglas fir, since I love the smell of real pine

I have a lot of ornaments, mostly from Pier One when they sold ornaments and other stores that sold ornaments from around the world - Mexico, Africa, Europe, etc. I've also collected a bunch of garland, some with angels, some with musical instruments - that my husband always puts on. No tinsel since for some reason he dislikes it (maybe from when we had cats...) My son can decorate the whole tree now since he's taller than me. We also use those strings of small colored lights - although I always think I should spring for some of those bubble lights...


I'll try to post a pic if I can figure out the Mac pic. uploading, but we don't usually put the tree up until about Dec. 15th. I love candles, so I have a lot of pine boughs, and bayberry candles - love their natural scent.


:)

[ThomCat]

50. I searched everywhere to find a beautiful African American Angel

for my tree when my friend Tracey was living with me. I was amazed how hard it was to find an angel that wasn't nordic blond. But I found one, and that angel went on my tree every year that I had one.

:)

I hope your son does a good job with the tree. It sounds like you have a lot of beautiful stuff for him to use.

[tigereye]

57. yeah, I enjoyed choosing them all - every year I would go and buy a few

usually on sale.


It's really fun to sit and drink a glass of wine and have them decorate... :rofl:



My uncle was a missionary priest who used to send beautiful X-mas cards of the Black Madonna or an Asian one - they were lovely.

[mopinko]

43. trying to talk kids out of one this year.

last year i almost had to beat them to get them to decorate the thing. with the youngest kid being 15, i just think they are over that.
i will probably loose the battle, tho. we are fixing up 2 rooms on the first floor, so they are tantalizingly empty. suspect having a big empty space for it, instead of the usual shuffling of furniture, will make it irresistible.

[ThomCat]

52. Will they put it up and decorate it?

If they do it without a fight then there is no problem. If you have to fight with them then it just doesn't go up. Either way, you win. :)

[mopinko]

58. i'll say forget it, then dad will say

but. but. sometimes i think he is the bigger kid.
i would rather put the effort into the outdoor lights. we live on a busy street, and lots of folks do some nice lights. might even tackle my big blue spruce this year. we had 2, and i used to climb around putting big lights on them. then we had a big spring snow storm that took one down, and knocked the top off the other. that one looked pretty bad, as they were close together, so one side was naked. so, i didn't do them for several years. but it has filled out, and now has a nice top. so, i might just get out there and risk my life for holiday cheer again.

[KitchenWitch]

51. We will put ours up next weekend.

I will post photos of it then.

:hi:

[ThomCat]

53. Awesome! Thank you!

:hi:

[SOteric]

55. I usually

don't put up a tree anymore. My cat destroys them and there's always a big one at Dad's house that kitty can't trash.

But here's some pretty trees for you to look at:















:hi:

[ThomCat]

59. That one with the fire looks a bit intense.

:P

Thank you! :)

[DarkTirade]

56. The only tree I have right now is 3 feet tall, plastic, and still in its box.

:P

[ThomCat]

60. Slacker!

:P

:hi:

[DarkTirade]

61. The first year I had it, it was awesomely geeky though. :)

The Animator and I decorated it with as many geeky things as we could find. Keychain lightsaberss, Harry Potter glasses, and a speeder bike toy that 'explodes' at the touch of a button scattered across it like it had crashed into the tree, and the poor pilot clinging to the top isntead of an angel. :)

[ThomCat]

62. That crashing bike sounds cool as hell.

:)

I still want a real lightsaber, damn it! x(

[DarkTirade]

63. I can make ya a prop one, but not a real one. Sowwy.

:)