Christmas trees

How about everyone sharing their trees with all to enjoy & get new ideas. Here is ours to start.
Bernie

What a great idea, to share Christmas tree pictures! Your tree is beautiful, Bernie.

Here is our's for this year. I kinda had to cram it in the corner beside the fish tank but it is much better out of the way. I just love this time of year!

Hope you all have a Wonderful Holiday!!

Very pretty tree Bernie, is it a live tree?? Mine isn't :( I sure miss the smell of a fresh tree! Dh says you can buy it in a can and pretend it's a real tree LOL Just ain't the same though...just cheaper!!

You'll have to excuse DS foot in the pic! I need to edit that out! LOL

It's so fun to see the Christmas tree photos loading right next to our DG tree. Yours looks alot like it, Molly! Very pretty.

Here's ours from last year, once with room lights off and the other with them on. This year we're probably not going to do more than our little 2' tree. We're having work done on the basement in an on-call situation, so we want to keep things simple at home (less to clean when they're done, too!). I'll miss putting up our big tree, but not taking it all back down again!

Very Pretty Kimberly!! The first one is really bright! I wish mine would have lit up like that!

Thanks Whiterose! Kinda does look like it huh?!!

This is fun, will get a pic of mine when it is finished...
I enjoy looking at other's trees.

Sort of like driving around to look at the decorations, except warmer and no need to get the car out.

How true Aimee, plus this gives us all an inside scoop on everyones taste in decor! I love seeing the different ones too kinda makes ya feel like you are part of the family!
Keep them pictures coming ya'll!! This is fun!!

Those christmas trees are so pretty! Here's our fake christmas tree. We have to use the small one due no room for big one but for new house,, we are going to have a real big tree!

I was going to put some mini tabasco bottles and fake crawfishes on it but decided going with those red/ gold ornaments!

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That's nice, Tricia - Is that the kind with the wooden trunk? I like those a lot. :)

I like 'em, too. How do you keep the cats from destroying your packages -- and the tree, too?

it came with the tree I bought it last week lol.. Somebody thought it was real lol.. I wish!

whiterose.. cats already after the trees and trying to reach the ornaments that move! Even they do stratch the wood bark under tree! Other day ago.. we woke up and found a present that was torn up.. MY DS said Jasper did it! NO wondering he was bad at nights ! LOL

While I was getting blood work last week, I saw a tree in one of the narrow hallways, about a foot wide and almost straight up, about 5 feet tall. It was decorated with blood vials, syringes, tubing, iv line clips, rubber gloves, everything they use in that lab. It appeared someone had taken "limbs" of needles and poked them into a green-painted board. Oddly cute!

Oh, Tricia, sounds like your cats take after ours! Except we can't even have Christmas trees anymore because the cats chew the light cords, knock the ornaments off and break them, tip the trees over, and eat their needles (real or fake) -- am so afraid they'll electrocute themselves or eat glass or sharp needles. It's kind of depressing to have a foot-high fake tree that sits on top of a tall bookcase, LOL! So it's fun to look at all these trees. Yours is very pretty.

Here Christmas trees aren't up before the Christmas week...

O Evert!! I know I couldn't wait that long! We put ours up the Friday after Thanksgiving! It really gets me in the spirit too!! Do you mean that no one there puts theirs up before then? or just your family?? I'd go nuts if I had to wait that long!

Seems everytime I can't find "Crazy" he is under the tree cirled up on the Christmas tree skirt! He likes my ornaments that move too! I have to keep him run off, or he'd have them down in the floor playing with them!!

None I think. How long do your trees last then? Usually Finns take their trees away on 6th-13th January.

Whiterose.. maybe you can hanging christmas tree on the ceiling? LOL.. so advice.. you can put christmas tree up and if cat get near.. spray them with water! It should work! My cats doesnt bother the tree often.

Here's last year's,but it will be the same this year too...just more stuff on it if I can find any clear space.

We don't have a real live tree, so therefore we have the advantage of putting ours up early and taking it down during the first week of the New Year. But when we did have live trees in the past, we would still put it up at least by the first week of December and would have to keep it watered and it would last until the New Year also. I found that the type of heat you have really effects it also, the dryer the heat the quicker the tree dried out. Then we would have the problem of dropping needles and the mess of cleaning up all that....that is another reason we bought a artificial tree, no messy needle clean up!!

I think the needles are a part of Christmas, having them in your socks. And the scent of real spruce...

LOL never thought of it that way Evert...but VERY true!! LOL

All the trees look just stunning!!!!

We dont have ours up yet. Will put it up this evening.
Here in the Northwest, the trees of choice are: douglas firs and noble firs. I worked in a Christmas Tree lot over the weekend, and let me tell you, it was the weekend that everyone was out looking for a tree.
The funny thing is: everyone thinks they are leaving with the perfect tree....and I tell them that yes indeed it is the best tree on the lot.
What are tree prices in your area?
the douglas firs were going from 13 dollars for the charlie brown ones, to 45 dollars, the nobles were going from 45 to 120. And let me tell you people are indeed paying over a hundred bucks for a tree.....
Usually we spend 45-60 bucks, but this year I am getting my tree free for helping my friend out.

All you people who have fresh cut trees, be sure you remember to add water EVERY DAY, or else it will dry out and become a fire hazard. A couple of minutes of prevention......


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Tricia, thanks for that water bottle advice! I laughed out loud about the hanging Christmas tree, maybe we could start a fad, LOL. Melody, what a lovely tree, the kind I'd expect to see in a Victorian parlor. In the days when we USED to have trees, we would put them up a couple of weeks after Thanksgiving and take them down during the second week of January, which broke my heart -- they are so beautiful that I wanted to leave it up all year long, and DID when I had a little fake tree for the dresser. I think Lotusblossom has it now.

They are all so beautiful. I must share the one from 2001 also as we are not putting one up this year. I had picked out a lovely one and tagged it back in October; however, we celebrated Christmas at Thanksgiving since we are going out of the country and the kids will be in Florida, etc. I got the decorations out Saturday with intentions of cutting the tree between hunting excursions, but it didn't work out, so the ornaments got returned to their safekeeping till next year.
Now that I see all of your lovely trees, I am wishing I could find the time to still go get the one we picked out, but no time now.
Has anyone seen the upsidedown ones they are now selling about town?

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Thanks for the compliments! Got a confession...my tree isn't a real one...just a very good fake.I've got allergies,so I can't have the real thing in the house. This one is being used for the 10th season and not showing any signs of wear.I gave about 175.00 for it 10 years ago,so I feel I have had good value for my money.

Melody, I would never have guessed that your tree isn't real -- artificial trees have come so far in appearance (and how they wear) since they were first introduced. What a blessing that allergy sufferers can enjoy Christmas trees again! Haighr, have never heard of upside-down Christmas trees, but it sounds like they might come in handy for use with the cats, LOL.

We have a friend, who has a friend (whom we don't know) that hung their tree upside-down from the ceiling two years ago, just to be different! I have seen several in the mass of catalogs I get - artificial on a pedestal and they look like a big decorated V. There was even one on display at our local garden center. Not sure what, if any, significance they suggest.

well, my Christmas tree isn't as pretty as all of these, but pretty good for a 2 yr olds first attempt. So I'm going to show off our nativity collection (most of it). Our biggest isn't here, it's on the top of the entertainment center. We started several years ago, and it's something we both love.

Allergy sufferer here, and mother of many for a long time. So in 1959, I did hang it from the ceiling. The entire neighborhood thought I was nuts. I would be willing to bet they whispered about me to their pillow mates and cautioned their children about riding their bikes too near our house. But I gave a birthday party for my oldest child, who was born on December 2. I used a Christmas theme, made little Santa caps and bags of goodies for the kids and bags of pretzels and fudge (sticks and lumps of coal) for the mothers, who were invited for lunch. The table held a traditional cake for candles, as well as squares of cake frosted to look like tiny gifts. We played games that I made up to fit the theme, (my all time favorite party game, a treasure hunt, led guests to the tree afterward) and there was a wrapped novelty gift for each child, suspended in a small basket under the tree. I lowered the basket so the birthday boy could reach in and hand out the gifts, with a little help from me. The sight of all those little kindergartners and toddlers, gazing in awe at the hanging tree, redeemed my standing as a decent mother. But when I left the tree up for protection against my own toddlers, it became the talk of many dinner tables, and I think it never quite became accepted in the end.

amiee, what a briliant idea. I would never had thought it possible, really....how did you suspend it from the ceiling? I'm sure the children were just in awe..

Aimee, you have such a marvelous way of describing things. I laughed 'til I cried at the story of your ingenious tree idea, and its unfortunate aftermath as the brunt of gossip, LOL. I think it was a brilliant concept and I believe I'm going to hang a tree, too, for the sake my cats (see above)!

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Love all the beautiful trees. Doesn't some country's tradition have trees hanging from the ceiling? Seems like I heard something about that one time.
Our tree came in a box. They had a half price sale at K-Mart,(store is gone!). So this tree cost only about $50.00.
Breaks down and goes back in it's original box. When you assemble it the next year it looks entirely different. Beats picking needles out of carpet. DW decorated the tree.
Heres last years tree.
Happy Holidays!
Bernie

It really is a pretty tree. Looks like somebody's happy about his baseball bat! Thank you for starting this thread, I can almost smell pine needles and spiced cider.

All these trees are soooo pretty!! Thanks to Bernie for starting this thread and Thanks to the rest of you for sharing your pictures with us. Makes it all warm and cozy on here now!

I'm not going to have a tree this year....but if I did I'd want one just like YOURS, and YOURS and YOURS!!!!! Each one is a work of art. Thanks for the nice thread. Jo

Jo, I bet you can create a cute little tree out of a gourd!
Love all you gourd things.
Bernie

What wonderful trees. I haven't had a tree since I got my first cat Spike. He grew up to be a big guy and I figured he would demolish it. Now I think the inquisitive Ginger would be wearing everything on a tree. Thanks for sharing your trees.