Yay! We put our Christmas tree up yesterday, so here's a very bad picture of it. I don't know why it's so bad...it's from my phone, but it uploaded to the computer in a huge size. I feel I should be able to upload it as smaller size, better quality.
ANYWAY - yay, we have a 7-foot-tall fake tree on the table, with tinsel and two kinds of lights and beads and baubles and a bell and a star. And chocolate things, which are essential.
Do you get a tree for Christmas/ Yule/ whatever you celebrate? When do you put it up? Do you cover it in tat or do you make a classy, themed tree? Do you put presents under it? Is it real or fake? Do you have any family rituals?
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I've a 6 foot fake tree up here, it is lacking in choc things though, this will be rectified ASAP.
The lights are multi-colored though.I already have about 5 presents under it but I am far from done christmas shopping.I didn't put a tree skirt under it though, I still haven't bought(or made) one for that yet.Someday...
P.S. I love your tree, it looks very sparkly!
We just put our tree up yesterday and got it all decorated. As for ornaments, I have sort of a theme...sort of. Burgundy and soft gold and frosted glass with glitter balls and teardrops. Then we have a variety of little specialty ornaments we gathered from our travels and ones I've handmade over the years. Anytime we visit a new place, we try to pick up some sort of Christmas ornament for the tree. It's fun pulling out each one and reminiscing about each trip. We also have a set of clip-on birds made of beautiful hand-blown glass that was given as a wedding gift from my best friend.
One of my favorite things though, is that we store some lace angels I made several years back in this box that my best friend sent. She grows catnip and one year, she sent our cats a little baggie of her dried stash. Well, anyone who has seen catnip in its dried state knows that it could be easily mistaken for some other "herb" that is illegal in the US. So Jen labeled the box, "Catnip - not drugs" all over the box then inside wrote, "Contents: CATNIP". We giggle every year when we pull those angels out of there.
Oh, and our presents ALWAYS go under the tree. We even bought the tree a little short just so I could build a little platform to put it on, complete with a custom tree skirt I sewed, just to make sure there was room underneath to put prezzies. That, and it leaves room for the cats to play without destroying ornaments and lights. We're always very careful to put non-breakable ornaments down low!