Show us your... Tree!

KickassAmazon76

I have heard that many people have decided to decorate early for Christmas. Normally the tree isn't put up until first or second weekend in Dec, but the kids were asking for it earlier.

Maybe we need to feel a little bit more magic this year. For me, there's something special about seeing multi colored lights, and memories of Christmas past. It gives my heart a squeeze.

I figured I'd create this thread for people to show their trees (or decorations).

Are you a traditionalist? More modern? Is your tree a mishmash of homemade ornaments, or one that's perfectly decorated?

Show us your trees!

KickassAmazon76

I'll start...
My tree is artificial, and decorated with ornaments from all the years past. (Some are older than I am, and are from my parents), lots are from my kids. Heck the tree is probably 30years old! *sneezes*

This is actually the back side... It's in the doorway separating my living room from my sunroom turned office.

Diatonic12

Rolling ROFL's

KickassAmazon76

And these are two of my fav ornaments... One is older than I am, and one is my self professed alter ego!

KickassAmazon76

Diatonic12 wrote: »

Rolling ROFL's

Haha, Miss D, did you claim Blake as your Christmas tree? Naughty, naughty!

Diatonic12

Here is my actual tree.

KosmosKitten

I maintain my rules: No tree or decorations until after Thanksgiving (half of my neighbors already have their decorations up, despite our housing community having rules that they passive aggressively sent out through an email last week.

However, to contribute to the thread until such time: Have a cat in a tree from the past.

Diatonic12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th2FYRobDxU

@KickassAmazon76 Way to light this place UP and blow the roof off.

KickassAmazon76

KosmosKitten wrote: »

I maintain my rules: No tree or decorations until after Thanksgiving (half of my neighbors already have their decorations up, despite our housing community having rules that they passive aggressively sent out through an email last week.

However, to contribute to the thread until such time: Have a cat in a tree from the past.

Well... Technically it IS after Thanksgiving... We can call you an honorary Canadian! Haha

Love the kitty in the tree! Mine loves sitting underneath it...but wants to chew on the LED lightbulbs. I'm so nervous he's going to zap himself!

KosmosKitten

KickassAmazon76 wrote: »

KosmosKitten wrote: »

I maintain my rules: No tree or decorations until after Thanksgiving (half of my neighbors already have their decorations up, despite our housing community having rules that they passive aggressively sent out through an email last week.

However, to contribute to the thread until such time: Have a cat in a tree from the past.

Well... Technically it IS after Thanksgiving... We can call you an honorary Canadian! Haha

Love the kitty in the tree! Mine loves sitting underneath it...but wants to chew on the LED lightbulbs. I'm so nervous he's going to zap himself!

Apologies, I do always forget our neighbors to the north have theirs in Oct.!

To be honest, our tree tradition is rooted in the fact that my father would usually have Thanksgiving off and take the following weekend off to spend with me. The Christmas tree farms were a good place to go then, as most people were concentrating more heavily on Black Friday sales and hanging out with extended family.

So.. we'd do Thanksgiving, watch the lighting of the Country Club Plaza in KC, MO (got to actually see it in person once and it snowed that day, so it was kinda magical) and then sometime during Thanksgiving weekend, we'd go pick out and cut down a tree for our living room.

We had an artificial tree, but dad always liked (and still does) real trees, despite the clean-up.

JessBbody

KickassAmazon76 wrote: »

I'll start...
My tree is artificial, and decorated with ornaments from all the years past. (Some are older than I am, and are from my parents), lots are from my kids. Heck the tree is probably 30years old! *sneezes*

This is actually the back side... It's in the doorway separating my living room from my sunroom turned office.

Your tree is so pretty and festive! I won't be putting up mine until 1st week of December. But this thread is great inspiration!

And I love your Wonder Woman ornament.

cwolfman13

We always get a real tree...unless we're traveling for Thanksgiving, we always get it the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Lots don't open up until that weekend anyway, so doing it early is a moot point...but I wouldn't even if I could. I love Christmas, but I'm honestly pretty Christmased out by the time it actually rolls around. If I started any earlier, I'd probably be done with it all by mid December.

Usually put the tree up and lights on the tree and outside on the back patio on Saturday and then we decorate the tree and the rest of the house Sunday. We do white lights...ornaments are a hodgepodge of those given to my wife and I over the years growing up and the one's my boys get every year. We have high ceilings, so usually a 10 footer.

cwolfman13

cwolfman13 wrote: »

We always get a real tree...unless we're traveling for Thanksgiving, we always get it the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Lots don't open up until that weekend anyway, so doing it early is a moot point...but I wouldn't even if I could. I love Christmas, but I'm honestly pretty Christmased out by the time it actually rolls around. If I started any earlier, I'd probably be done with it all by mid December.

Usually put the tree up and lights on the tree and outside on the back patio on Saturday and then we decorate the tree and the rest of the house Sunday. We do white lights...ornaments are a hodgepodge of those given to my wife and I over the years growing up and the one's my boys get every year. We have high ceilings, so usually a 10 footer.

Just to add to my original post...It's also been in the 70s for most of November and we were pushing 80 almost everyday last week which is unseasonably warm...kids asked me if we could de-winterize the pool...doesn't feel very Christmas like at all right now.

This week looks like we'll finally be going into more seasonal weather with temps in the 50s and some overcast skies.

tmantwo

Crappy way to post it but this was one of my “White House” trees. It’s easily 25 foot tall.

I sorta miss that log house.

KosmosKitten

Look at y'all with your put together trees.

Mine always looks like a Santaland and an Ozarkland threw up on it.

Cat0703a

Mine won’t be up for a few more weeks but it usually looks the same...little white lights and a mishmash of sentimental ornaments. And a little tree outside with pine cones, red bows, and white lights too:





And my favourite ornament is one from my grandparents when I was 7. She’s a porcelain bell:

KickassAmazon76

These are beautiful! I hope to see pics from those of you who are waiting a bit yet!

Thank you to all who have shared! ❤️

JessBbody

tams_89 wrote: »

I usually wait till Dec 1st but I put mine up on Saturday 😁

This is stunning! Looks like something in the window at Macy's in New York.

snowflake954

I love Christmas! My grandmother hand made some ornaments.

snowflake954

snowflake954

This is our neighbor's wreath.

KickassAmazon76

snowflake954 wrote: »

I remember putting tinsel in the tree when my sis and I were little. I loved throwing it at it and letting it float down. I think my parents would "fix" it secretly after, because my half was always in one area...

Thanks for sharing!

snowflake954

KickassAmazon76 wrote: »

snowflake954 wrote: »

I remember putting tinsel in the tree when my sis and I were little. I loved throwing it at it and letting it float down. I think my parents would "fix" it secretly after, because my half was always in one area...

Thanks for sharing!

That's what I do after my sons put tinsel on. They clump it in one place--they're men and don't have a light hand, but need to learn. I fix it after--they'll never know.

goal06082021

My tree will be going up Friday. The day after Thanksgiving has been Christmas Decorating Day in my family for as long as I could remember. My mom, my sister, and I would work together to assemble the artificial tree (one of those individual-boughs-snapped-into-a-central-trunk models), Mom would apply the lights, and then my sister and I would hang all the ornaments, reminiscing about where we got this one or when we got that one or who gave us this other one. It was almost a ritual, one I haven't been able to participate in for a few years since I live so far from my mom, and I certainly can't make the trip this year, so that's a little sad. I'm very much in the "maximally-colorful tree utterly loaded with sentimental ornaments" camp - those Better Homes and Gardens color-coordinated, tastefully arranged trees are pretty and all, but they don't mean anything, and that's not what Christmas is about, to me.

Now, I have cats, so my current Christmas tree is a little 18" tall tabletop thing. It's very cute! It sits in a little bucket with a red-and-black plaid bow tied around it, and we have a small assortment of little ornaments. To keep it out of the cats' reach, I wrap a bunch of books and boxes we have laying around to look like a stack of gifts, and put the tree on top of that. As far as decorations, to start, I bought a box of 24 little red and green balls with reindeer and Christmas trees painted on them, with the goal of gradually phasing them out for meaningful trinkets over the years. We're obviously limited on size right now, but for instance, last year my now-husband and I took a week's vacation to Seattle, and I snagged a little Space Needle ornament while we were there, as a reminder of our trip. We got married this year (after dating/cohabiting for almost 9), so I'm thinking I want a little ornament to commemorate that (it's basically the best thing that's happened this year), but an "Our First Christmas" doesn't seem fitting since we've celebrated Christmas together for the better part of a decade, LMAO. The major challenge in finding ornaments for our tiny tree is (1) I don't want them to break if and when the cats do manage to knock the dang thing down, but also (2) ornaments small enough for our tree are the approximate size and shape of cat toys, so I can't even blame the cats for thinking I hung all this cool stuff up for them.

GymGoddessGoals

I haven't put up a tree since 2009

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Yoshiboobs

I’m not done decorating. We’ve decided to just gradually add things as we find them. Just bought the tree and you can have it any color you want with lots of presets. The general theme is “woodland creatures “.

Seems that this year people are either team no Christmas or team set up Christmas super early. Mine went up Halloween day.😅

thereshegoesagain

I have 2 cats so had to get creative in how to safely hang my favorite ornaments. Here's what I came up with

tmantwo

^ Along with your solution I like your wall texture and switches too.

KosmosKitten

thereshegoesagain wrote: »

I have 2 cats so had to get creative in how to safely hang my favorite ornaments. Here's what I came up with

Ha, this is awesome, but would not work with my cats. They go after hanging decorations on the walls.

Did you make this yourself with found twigs? It's really clever!

Just_Mel_

It's hard to see, but my tree is black. The snowflakes are all cut by my sister, and I have more she made for me this year to add to the collection.