Is your Christmas Tree up?

[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.

[bcipam]

Gorgeous tree, bcipam! Ours are never so thickly branched...

I hope you all realize that tree is fake - an expensive fake. Since I live alone it was just so difficult to go out by myself and hunt down a tree, get it into the holder and then take care of it. Fake tree takes me a day to put up but it's worth it especially if you hve "overdecoritis" like I do. I can manipulate the branches to fit certain ornaments and during the seasont he tree does not droop or change shape. I use Bath and Body Works pine scented plug ins to make up for lack of scent.

[KnottedYet]

Oooh, I might have to look into those plug-ins! I use the Crabtree and Evelyn oil, but the scent disappears fairly quickly. A plug-in could solve that problem!

[Geonz]

I want to see the unmentionable improvisation from the nether regions myself!! (It's still more than I've got. I will take a picture of my "tree" at some oint :-))

[KnottedYet]

I'm debating whether to handmake cards that look like your bike-n-tree, Geonz; or whether to just buy a box of 42 bland cards at Costco for $15.

Is that your Xtra cycle?

[suzieqtwa]

I just put up our tree...its a fake one ,but we light scented candles ,or glad plugins to make it smell good.

How do you get your pictures to show up. It keeps saying failed fille upload. Are they too big?