Here's My Christmas Tree

Beautiful trees! Each one is so unique. I love those themes. Especially the antique tree. You must have a huge house to accomodate all of those trees. I'd have to start decorating in July to get them all decorated before Christmas. :-)

Janet

I love it! What a clever idea!

They're all just gorgeous. You are so lucky to have such well behaved cats. Mine don't show such restraint. Part of my morning routine includes picking up stray ornaments and putting them back on the tree. lol I love 'em though.

Love the trees ! Anne, Henry did such a great job ! You have a big boy now !

I have too another kind of Christmas tree, which I made of pine cones. This is last Christmas decoration.
Adina

And this is a sweet Christmas tree !LOL

I bought a tree at lunchtime today. Does that count?

Debra

If you'll show it to us ...
Adina

Daylily they are all wonderful the patience you have to decorate all of them has my head spinning! AND to take them all down and store wow you are to be admired!

Adina thank you Henry loves to decorate the tree and we always let him pick it out!

Your sweet tree looks tasty!!!!

Anne,you have no idea...already drooling !
Adina

trees, trees and more trees. what a wonderful thread this has been.

sweezel - how did you put two pictures on your post.??

Adina, it's in a box now. I should be able to post a photo "fully dressed" by Saturday. That's the plan any way......
Debra

Herbie, I used a photoshop like program to paste the pics into one file. The program is called Gimp and available online. I just opened each picture in Gimp, copied and then pasted each picture into a new blank file which was twice as wide as the original. Saved it and Viola, they were side by side in one file.

Well I've loved ALL the shots!
Especially love the old ornaments.
We are very cramped for space here so no tree.
Instead we have little scenes.
Here's the trees on the stair landing done by my S/O (She's the decorator)

Ric

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Picasa is even simpler than that. It is also free. It will help you make up a blog also.

Debra, way to go! We will patiently wait. i knew you could do it.
Have a good time decorating.
Bernie

henryr10... that scene is beautiful! Tell your S/O she does a fabulous job! Daylily... wow! All your trees are awesome! I have a question... I am assuming that all the ones in creative bases are artificial (as are mine...my christmas trees, I mean)... anyway... how are you securing them in such imaginative bases?

This is at least as much fun as driving around to see Christmas lights!

bsavage ~ i use bricks.

magoobu ~ each tree has it own rubbermaid box and all the decorations go in it, every box and tree are labeled. i put 30+ trees every christmas, it takes about 2 weeks to put them up.

here's a group of trees that dad built boxes that fit the base.

daylily - that's impressive! Are all 30 trees in your home? Each and every one is beautiful.

adina - this photo is for you. :)

Debra

ROTFLOL at Debra! great tree!!!!!

Daylily like I said before you are amazing and all that patience to do all that! You are officially the most Christmassy!!!!!

debra! love your tree!

as you can tell, i love christmas. i have the trees in the house, they are from 6 inches to 9 feet.

this is the 9 footer.

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Take care, Debra

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Wow, daylily... awesome! I agree - you are the most Christmas-y!

fleursdefouquet, thank you for the warning. You can't be too careful these days.

Brenda

Debra, thanks, my tree looks almost the same now, only it's a little smaller, but it takes me a couple of hours only to arrange the branches ! I took a picture for you too ! The dimensions are in cm.
Adina

very nice Adina funny it does look alot like Debra's that is amazing!!!

Anne, it looks a lot like Debra's because it's Italian , not Romanian ! They are doing good stuff, like everyone else in the world, while we are starting again...but we're coming faster !
Adina

yes but they also look so similar in the square style you get your trees in! ROTFLMBO!!!

Awesome trees above. I especially like the Christmas tree. It's fun!

Ours won't be up for a few days, but I'll take a picture when we do get it up.

Ann

Hey Adina, I like your tree! That's too funny!

The spirit finally moved me so I decided to take the afternoon off and get my tree put up. I started on it around 3pm and stopped about 10:30. I'm pooped! Darn it - after I started decorating it a portion of the lights went out. There is a section about 1/3 from top, all the way around, that isn't lit. Wasn't about to undo it, take it apart, and return it to the store. And my angel topper keeps tilting like she's about to do a triple somersault dive off the top of the tree! Here goes.....

And my foyer. The mantel is next - will have to wait until tomorrow night.

Love all the pics! So fun to see all the Christmas tree creativity! Every one is original!

This year ours is small but it's cheery. Every year we do a little different theme, and sometimes the tree's 'fake' and sometimes 'real' depending on our mood and how much effort the family is willing to put in to going into the attic and decorating.

Looking at everyone's decorations makes me want to take another trip to the attic and pull out some more garland and bows and do the stairs, another tree and other the fireplaces.

Wish we were having you all over for a holiday drink! And wish we were invited to your house, too!

Happy Christmas to all!

fleur - what a pretty tree! So frustrating when lights go out... but you'll get it working. I love the ribbon in the tree.

tabasco - also very pretty! Happy Christmas!

tabasco - how pretty! That could be a page from Southern Living magazine. Lovely room.
Debra

Debra, sorry for the lights ! I'm sure it'll be solved immediately ! The ornaments are great ! Is that a ribbon or a veil? It's beautiful and decorates so well the tree !
Adina

Adina,
Thanks! It's called floral.......ah, floral.......floral something. (see Ann - there's my "some-timers again) It is sold at craft stores and florists and comes on big rolls like paper towels - but about 3 ft long. It is actually a very fine mesh wire woven into a type of ribbon shape. The wire allows you to shape it. It sells out fast around here.
Debra

I love your tree Debra inside and outside of the BOX!!!!

Thank you, Anne! It only took an afternoon off from work and SEVEN HOURS of decorating......but it's DONE!

Good job!!!!

Here it is. Pretty standard.

Standard???? You meant to say! GORGEOUS!

Beautiful tree, Kelli.
I'm not sure what standard is.
Bernie

Standard is the thing you put the tree in so it won't fall over. Definitely not Kelli's tree.
Just having great time looking at all the wonderful trees and seeing the kidlets. I used to have a tree in the kitchen too. And the wonderful glass ornaments, like my Momma had, I have a couple that are left from that time in my life.