Is your Christmas Tree up?

[LBTC]

I like those little round mat things that you guys have your trees sitting on. I've never seen those before.....are they the norm? They add a nice touch

V...

It's called a tree skirt. Hides the stand and makes a nice backdrop for all the gifts!

~T~

[postiechic]

thanks
Looks like we can get em here afterall.....
so that's another thing on my list of to-do's
V...

[Brandi]

I like those little round mat things that you guys have your trees sitting on. I've never seen those before.....are they the norm? They add a nice touch

V...

I use christmas fabric that I got at a fabric store about two yards of it. It is nice and big. The little skirts are almost to little sometimes.And I think they cost to much as well.

[KnottedYet]

I use a hunk of Christmas fabric that I got wrapped around a present one year. (fabric instead of wrapping paper) I haven't finished it off or sewn it into a skirt shape, I just swirl it around the tree stand.

[Trek420]

aack, I haven't even taken the menorah out of the box.

I also put lights up. Where'd I put them, do they still work?

I do enjoy putting a Chanukah (or Hanukah whichever spelling you prefer) bush up but did not do that last year.

[bcipam]

Here's a close up of my tree skirt. It's beautiful. It's made of dark green and red velvet and has lots of hand embroidered ornaments on it. You can't tell in the photo but when the lights are on, the ornaments just sparkle, reflecting the hand made ornaments I have on my tree.

I bought the skirt about 10 years ago at Costco for gosh sakes. They tend to have the most awesome Christmas stuff - gift boxes, glass ornaments, home decorations - however they usually come out in the Summer so you have to keep your eyes open!

Everyones' trees look great! Even though I am divorced and have no family here I put up a tree. It puts me in the mood and I love ooking at it. It takes me 3 days to put it up but it's worth it. It's never really done as I keep moving things around.

Cali love your tree. Yes I wish I had taken photos of Pip's "kills" I was just so astonished and amused about the whole thing I forgot. He keeps eyeing the big birds on the tree and yes I suspect he does have a ladder stashed someplace! Some day when I'm not watching....




PS Here's a photo of my goofball caught up in Christmas last year!

[snapdragen]

Pip is a typical kid, plays with the boxes and wrappings instead of the actual toys.......

[Trek420]

bcipam, because I've been told that I took to the secular aspects of Christmas like a duck to water but I have a question for you and the group.

If you have a tree skirt, and there are bike shorts under the tree....is it a tree skort?

[Popoki_Nui]

PS Here's a photo of my goofball caught up in Christmas last year!

lol! Too cute.

[wannaduacentury]

Everyone's trees are sooo pretty. I hope mine is when I get it up. I haven't had my big one up in a couple of yrs b/c my in-laws lived w/ us and no room in the living rm to put it. It's going up sometime this week(I hope) and get my village houses on display. Happy decorating everyone.

[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

[eclectic]

I like those little round mat things that you guys have your trees sitting on. I've never seen those before.....are they the norm? They add a nice touch

V...

I use a green felt cape I made for DS one year when he was Robin Hood for Halloween.

[Duck on Wheels]

Yep, tree mat is a must. Catches all the needles as they fall off. We do a tree, menorah (two this year!), toast the turning of the sun at the exact hour every year, little gnome figures all over the place ... anything to brighten our lives during the darkest month. But the tree doesn't go up until Dec. 23, otherwise it'd be bare branches by Jan 6 when it comes down. So Dec 23 DH puts the tree in its base and the "kids" put on the lights and all the accumulated decorations they made at school up through the years and when the tree is up we go across the street to the neighbors' pre-Xmas party (mulled wine and moose buffet, and "the lady and the butler" sketch on tv). Same procedure as every year, James.

Gorgeous tree, bcipam! Ours are never so thickly branched, nor do we have any decorating themes. One year our tree was so twisted in the trunk that we had to tie it to the window hasps to keep it from tipping over. That was after it tipped over once and broke pretty much all our glass decorations. THEN we tied it up, when it was pretty much empty. But a tree does cheer up the room nevertheless.

[lph]

I grew up with lots and lots of cats (we took in strays for an organization and fed them til they could find a more permanent home), and we cut our own Christmas tree, which I always insisted be the tallest our (lofty) ceiling could accomodate. Result: cats here, there and everywhere, and a tree guywired to three walls...

We now have a hyperactive kitten about to meet her first Christmas tree. She already climbs the curtains by jump-catching all four paws, and does campus-training on the back of the kitchen chairs, overhanging to her.

I can hardly wait.

[bikerchic]

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Originally Posted by postiechic
I like those little round mat things that you guys have your trees sitting on. I've never seen those before.....are they the norm? They add a nice touch

V...

It's called a tree skirt. Hides the stand and makes a nice backdrop for all the gifts!

~T~
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I've had a red felt cheap one for a few years and always meant to jazz it up. Last year I even bought lots of "stuff" from the craft store to do it but neglected to do so. Sooooo yesterday and most of last night I spent cutting out little felt trees and snowmen to adorn my crumby red felt tree skirt, gawd is it awful looking! I did manage to sew on some gilded rick-rack around the bottom. I am so not creative, it's a shame. I am going to finish this for sure, well OK, not finish it, I decided it's such a pain it will be a work in progress, to be continued next year, and next and so on.....then I'll probably break down and buy an expensive one and get a real live big tree too!

In my minds eye I am such a great artist.......

I think I figured a way to take and post a pic with my cell phone I will try to get one posted soon. I love seeing everyone elses and now that I've told you what a crumby job I did on my "skirt" well I must show ya!