Is your Christmas Tree up?

[Popoki_Nui]

What a gorgeous tree, bcipam!! I really dig Christmas, but I have nowhere near the patience and creativity you have to create such a wonderful tree. We put ours up last Sunday during the Big Snow. Just like Christmas in Alberta when I was little.....brought back so many memories.
So...my tree is a little lame, but my Christmas shopping is done ..!

[snapdragen]

Beautiful Pam - I love colorful trees. I'm with Lisa, the cat has a ladder stashed somewhere.

Popoki - your tree is beautiful too.

We haven't brought our decorations out yet, but I have a tiny 18" shiny silver tree in my cubicle at work. I'm thinking it will be my over the top tree - marabou garland and all.

[7rider]

Wow. Nice trees, folks.
DH and I (mostly me) will put up a tree later this month. Probably the 4.5' falsey this year, as we won't be around for the holiday itself. We'll be up in Connecticut with my family. Even tho' we've got no kids, I do enjoy decorating for the holidays....but lately the decorations have been getting less and less. I'm less enthusiastic about it than I once was.

[KnottedYet]

Our tree is a fakey, but we use Crabtree and Evelyn Christmas oil to make it smell like a good one.



Rather eclectic collection of ornaments: boats, fish, seashells, lots of handmade things, ornaments with meaning, some we can't remember where they came from, old ones, new ones. The new ones for this year are blown glass rubber duckies: one each purple, green, and blue.

[caligurl]

lol..... i opened this planning on "calling you out" to tell your story.... but you already did! (i still can't believe you didn't take a pic of kittie's "kills")

we put our tree up, too.....



after i took the pic i realized i have the onaments more concentrated at eye level.... so i need to do some rearranging.... what i like about this tree is the stand spins.... so instead of just seeing the front side... we get to see the whole tree!

(and pam.... my angel always looks like she's tipping over, too.... i think they are both hitting the booze while we're gone!)

[Bikingmomof3]

This is the widest tree we have ever had. It looks more like a wide bush.

[Brandi]

No tree is ever badely decorated! They are all so pretty. I have to go on the road for another 4 days but we got our tree today. We just came home from working in oregon (cold) yesterday. We will kep our tree in the cool garage in a bucket of water and put lights on it next weekend and such.. we went to our local lighted boat parade. It was fun but way to short I thought.

[LBTC]

Those are some beautiful trees! No matter how critical you may be of your own, I think they are each and every one perfect!

I was surprised today when DH suggested we put the tree up next weekend. Isn't that a whole 2 weeks before Christmas? That's a good week earlier than usual! He must be starting to get into it or something...

It's a falsey, but a good one. I'll post pics when it's done.

A new friend from work says she's going to help decorate our house. She recently split up with her man and moved back in with her folks and her way too many Christmas decorations are stored in their garage. We're just looking forward to a good firenog (I hope I can tolerate at least one!!), to enjoy as we put up all those memories....

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

note: firenog: eggnog, rum and....fireball!

[eclectic]

No tree is ever badely decorated! .

This reminded me of a story re DS when he was about 7th grade

I didn't put up the family room Christmas tree one year, just the living room one and he was very put out so decided to do it himself. It was an old artificial one where you had to put each branch in certain slots. He just stuck them in anywhere,anyhow, upside down, big on top, little on the bottom, no rhyme or reason. Then took the atrocious gold fluffy garland and lights and draped them everywhere, even beyond the tree. It was hilarious. I left it up even for my adult annual Christmas party, it was definately a conversation starter. Unfortunately I didn't have the presence of mind to take a picture.

I LOVE the story about your cat "hunting" all the birds

All the tree pictures are very beautiful - Makes me want to put mine up, oh. . . Oh. . . OH! .. . the feeling is passing - spinning class is in an hour