Christmas tree?

[Daniel]

It would be nice but we have a lot of those porcelain trees with different colored plastic inserts in the shape of birds, etc., already. We have a Peanuts Charlie Brown tree somewhere and a complete Peanuts manger set. We have Christmas light for outside and we have a few vintage decorations made of tin (?) for the front rock garden.

So, no. We won't buy an actual tree. We wouldn't have many decorations to put on it, we don't have room for it, it would be a lot of work for me and I'm already swamped.

I wish!

[ShiroKuro]

I bought a wreath with battery operated lights with the intention of putting it on the front door but it says for indoor use only… hmmm. Our porch overhang isn’t that deep, rain would probably get it a bit. Maybe I should get an actual outdoor one?

[ShiroKuro]

Ok here are our trees this year:

Living room tree:

Living tree with lights out:

Pencil tree in the piano room:

View from the bench (see the living room tree in the distance)

Another view from the bench

Our snow people:

[Steve Miller]

Sweet!

[Mik]

We will put up the small tree this year as we will be out west again. ButvJanet decorates the house inside and we do lights and a large twinkling snowman outside.

[ShiroKuro]

Random comment: I took these photos with my iPhone. When you go to edit a photo, there’s an “auto” option that tweaks the brightness and contrast, maybe it does some other things. Anyway, I use that option a lot and I used it with some if not all of the photos shared here (I can’t remember).

But look at photo number four. I’m sure I used the auto edit for that one, and look at how the Yamaha logo really pops. There was no light source behind me, although the lettering is brass and I polished all the brass when I first bought the piano (so about 5 years ago).

I’m sure there are editing options where you can bring out or brighten one spot in a photo but I’ve never tried to figure out how to use them. Still, as a piano lover, this is a not unwelcomed result

[dolmansaxlil]

We put up our tree last night.

[ShiroKuro]

Lovely!!

[Jodi]

Very pretty, both of you! We go out sometime in December and cut one up in the forest south of town ($5 permit). I play our favorite Christmas CD’s and get all nostalgic and sappy about the old ornaments while I decorate - ones from my mom, and the old ones my kids made.

[ShiroKuro]

@Jodi thats a lovely way to do it!!

[wtg]

@dolmansaxlil That is a gorgeous tree, and I love the tree skirt! Did you make it?

@Jodi I do a Christmas movie rather than a music CD while decorating the tree. Either White Christmas or The Bishop's Wife. I put up the vintage glass ornaments that my Mom bought over the years. Each one is a memory.

[Daniel]

SK, beautiful as always!

Dol, when I said you could borrow my Christmas tree I didn't mean you could keep it! Lol.

[dolmansaxlil]

@wtg I did! Tula Pink made a line of quilting fabric called Holiday Homies and I thought it was hilarious so made a tree skirt from it. My whole tree is childhood ornaments, pop culture, and ornaments we buy when we travel, so with the silly mish mash this fabric seemed to be a perfect fit!

[Steve Miller]

We have to do three trees, one at home and one at each rental. We will start after Thanksgiving.

I don’t enjoy any of it much.

Humbug!

[AndyD]

Lovely trees.
We have two, I put them up with lights and much nearer Christmas our daughters (or MrsA )add the baubles, presents underneath. Pretty dull so far:

As kids we had 1960 Pifco nursery rhyme bell-style lights on the table top Christmas tree. Using 5 sets from ebay I made 3 working sets, two for my sisters.
Here's my set in our hallway

Memories.

[ShiroKuro]

@Steve-Miller so it’s not a “labor of love,” it’s just a “labor”

@wtg said in Christmas tree?:

I put up the vintage glass ornaments that my Mom bought over the years. Each one is a memory.

That sounds wonderful!

@AndyD very nice!

[RealPlayer]

Every year I wonder if this will be the year we forgo getting a tree. I could have stopped 10 years ago, but my wife is all in. Sigh.

[ShiroKuro]

@RealPlayer so does she make you help? Mr SK's job is to actually put the tree (now trees) up, and then after that, he mostly stays out of my way

[RealPlayer]

@ShiroKuro Well, I go along and help load the tree into and out of the car. I don’t do the decorating though. We have daughters family over on Christmas for dinner and opening presents. Trees are expensive here, easily $75 to $100, esp. if you want Frasier fir. Manhattan is even more expensive.

[AndyD]

We get our trees out of the garage
Plastic can be very realistic these days, with convenient swing down perfect branches.
One of ours is vintage Christmas 1990, talk about getting your moneys worth.