Oh...WOW...Kirk...I love that tree! The whole setting has a lovely old fashioned look. It's wonderful!!

We've always gone for the more old fashioned decorations...
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but this year I wasn't up to unwrapping all the ornatments and hanging them...so I went to the dollar store and bought a bunch of snowflakes and to Michaels for delicate gold leaves to put on the tree. I only unpacked my big gold bow and the dove, deer and birdnest with golden eggs for good luck. (Lord knows I could use some of that! LOL) And I won't have much at all to wrap and pack up again!

DH bought the train that goes around the tree. It's awesome! It whistles, the conductor talks, the headlight shines and everything!! $16 at Lowe's! Such a deal...as DH always says!
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~Sandy~

I don't have a big tree, just some small ones thru-out the house. Here's a couple of them.
This is my "wall tree" (flat backed for hanging)
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and my purple ornament tree
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Happy HoliDAZE,
Karen

Oh Christmas Tree ~~~~~ Oh , Christmas Tree...........
how lovely are A L L thy Branches !!!!!
If Gomer Pile... was here he would say.....
GOLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYY !!!!
Them there trees are just B E A U T I F U L !!!!!!!
Each one looks just like their.... maker...
Just like the owner looks like their DOGs....
welll ....... You three,.... Kirk , Sandy, and Karen....
YOUR the master of the tree.... and your trees look like YOU!
YA ' LL have shown us your personality !!!!!
and I thank you for that....
I can just truly say.... I love each one....
It's sooooooooo amazing to me.... how you can take a tree...
different people decorate it... and have so mmannnny looks!

I think we should start a little Christmas tree look book!
Well...
I guess we just did...
Thanks Kids......
Sorry I stilll have no pictures....
BUT>>>>>>
I haaave been taking lots.... and some are of the real snowflakes....
so in the summer when ya'll are real hot .... I'll have SNOW Pictures !!! and a Picture of my TREE!!!!
Thanks for POSTING!
Thanks for being COOL Garden Web Friends !!!!
GOD BLESS YOU EACH ONE AND ALL YA'LLS FAMILIES !
M E R R Y + C H R I S T MAS !!!!
Susiesunshine

wow! Love all the trees:)Kirk,my husband always looks for the Waltons Christmas every year,his favorite:)Your tree is beautiful!Karen I have never seen a flat tree, I sure could use one of those!!It's beautiful and so is the purple one! I have been drooling over the feather trees at Michael's,would love one! Sandy,you and I think alike,lol! Your tree is simply beautiful! Here's ours, I got tired of hanging ornaments after a couple days, and gave up :) Mine is magnolias,pine cones, glass birds, birds nests, a large garland of grapevine that winds around the whole tree top to bottom, pearl,crystal and gold beaded garlands, grapevine hearts, mostly gold and clear ornaments,with a few maroon ones. There's still a whole storage box left, but it looks ok to me. Also bought this icy looking wreath and cut it apart and slipped those in the branches,and filled in with a lot of babys breath. An old lace curtain for the skirt:) I haven't wrapped a single gift yet! But I got the tree up!

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Here's mine - I just love my skinny tree, got it at The Christmas Tree Shops a couple of years ago for only $20 and decorated it with a Snowman theme. It's so easy now, I don't even take the ornies off anymore. I just pick it up and store it away covered up.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Sal

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I love to collect old or homemade christmas ornaments, particularly the vintage glass christmas balls. At least a third of the ornaments on my tree are homemade (some made by me, others I found at thrift stores) incluging hand painted ceramics, mini grapevine wreaths, crochet wreaths and angels, stainglass, and bead candycanes and bells. Another third are vintage ornaments like the glass christmas balls. There are a bunch more of them on the tree this year since I found two nearly full boxes of beautiful balls at Salvation Army recently and they cost less then a dollar each box! I even managed to find a vintage christmas tree stand! The rest of the ornaments include things like glass icicles, plastic apples, cat ornaments, swedish straw and wood ornaments, and anything that happened to catch my eye in the stores!
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I also one of those large ceramic christmas trees that is lit from the inside on my dining room table. There is a row of vintage christmas balls hanging above it.
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Kudzukween, When you said you haven't wrapped a single gift yet...but your tree is up...it made me laugh. I'm right there with you!! I figured as long as we had a decorated tree...we could have Christmas! LOL And...your tree is as busy as mine usually is! Love it!

Sal, you brought back some memories when you said you leave the decorations on your tree, cover it and put it away for the next year. My parents used to do the same thing with theirs. They had a walk-up attic and just carried it up the stairs! (What I wouldn't give for a staircase to my attic!) Love your snowman collection too!

Karen, I want your purple tree...even though it wouldn't go with a darned thing in my house!! LOL

Karalyn, your tree is lovely! Very old fashioned looking. You have gone to a lot of trouble to find and make so many neat things for it. I also love the ornatments hanging above your ceramic tree. Very nice!

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas"!

~Sandy~

Oh Karalynn:
I Adore your vintage stuff ! Great find at the TS!
I grew up with all those ornaments and I just adore them... and the hand made stuff is GREAT! I have stuff my DD made in school and I treasure each and every one of them .... I intend to pass them on to her DD my GD !!! Cool Idea !
Your Ceramic kitchen tree with lites and the cool shelf with your lovely vintage stuff... and the hanging ornaments are all just quite charming !!! So Nice of you to share! I appreciate seeing them!
M E R R Y + C H R I S T MAS!!!
susiesunshine

Here is a daytime picture. DH and I go to the farmer's market every year and pick out a tree, usually takes what seems like forever to find that one tree that begs to come home with us, this year we found this one in about 10 minutes! I think it was a pretty good choice...
I wish I could figure out how to put the pictures into the message, haven't mastered that yet, sorry!

Here is a link that might be useful: Christmas tree

Kudzukween: that is a beautiful nature lovers dream of a tree!
Sal: the skinny tree is adorable ! I love the snowmen
I think it is sooooo wonderful that each individual can decorate their tree to the theme that suits them best !!!
It is something I can look at the pictures forever and never get tired of... I want to look and admire them year round.!!!!
Thanks a bunch for the great pictures !!!
Have your selves
a M E R RY + C H R I S T MAS !!!!
God Bless !
Susiesunshine

I love sentimental ornaments and still have many.As each of my children married I packed up their personal ornaments for their own trees. After the third child left I realized I hade gaping holes. Not wanting to go commercial I decided to fill those holes with MY favorite things.I have been collecting Anne and Andies for a while so now I have a Raggedy tree!
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Love Raggedy Ann & Andy!! Sweet! Not as sweet as the little helpers though!!

Here are my small trees. They're everywhere!

Family room:
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Ohhhh...that's blurry!

Porch:
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Foyer:
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Ha...almost killed myself taking that one. It's a small hall! LOL

Breakfast room:
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Can't have too many Christmas trees! At least the little ones are easy to decorate!

~Sandy~

they are all veryyy nice
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Oh Sandy, I did the same thing!! Our daughter is in college now, so nobody felt like dragging the ornaments upstairs! The snowflakes and red balls are from $ Tree. I feel so lazy every time I look at it, because I miss seeing all the ornaments that we've collected over the years. I think I'm the only one that misses them! So enjoy my Lame Tree!
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OMG...thanks for the laugh, Countrygrl!! Do what I do...squint when you look at. You won't be able to see that your favorite ornaments are missing!

~Sandy~

Countrygrl, I am loving the grapevine wrapped around your Christmas tree - that is soooooo country/prim looking. It's perfect.

Sal

So many pretty trees and different decor ideas. What fun to see. I'm glad this thread was started here.
Sandy, I was surprised at how many purple ornies I found last year at sales. And I love having the silver tree to put them on. Thanks to my DD thinking of that.
You saying my "purple tree"....well boy did I see one! If my family wouldn't have heart failure, I'd get it just for me. (cept it's a BIG tree, LOL) And how would I decorate it anyway? Silver ornaments?
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hugs, Karen

Holy cow, Karen...where did you find that? I've never seen a purple Christmas tree...at least not with purple needles and all!

I remember seeing a full sized silver tree hanging up-side-down in front of someone's picture window a few years back. It was pretty cool actually!

My daughters do some totally awesome Christmas trees! I wish I had the time to go take pictures of them to post.

Have you seen the rainbow colored poinsettias? Wow! Nothing is sacred anymore!!

I like more traditional things. Guess it's cuz I'm old!

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Here is our Tree, I also like the home made ornaments. Made a lot of them and also recieved alot for gifts, My little elf on ladder recieved from a friend and made a ladder for it to climb on , over chair is Santa bag that I made to haul gifts to familys houses . Have Five granddaughters so we have lot of gifts under tree!
Happy Holidays
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Sandy, there's a Christmas tree site online that I saw this tree. In fact they had them in many colors. Seems this year PINK trees are very popular according to an article I just read in our paper. And so are black ones!!!! LOL.

grandmabarb, what a fun tree. Handmade ornies are so special. You are loaded with presents for those little ones it seems! Same here, have 8 grandchildren.

hugs, Karen

no tree pics yet...my tree will be naked until tonight, but I am really enjoying everyone else's! They are all so unique...just like you! re: the "new" colors of Christmas...the first year my DH and I flew to FL to spend Christmas w/ his family, I saw a whole tree lot filled with pink (!) and blue and even green flocked trees and said "WHAT!!!!!?" This was back in the early 70's, and being from New England, I just could not embrace a pink Christmas tree. Now that I'm a tad older, ;o) and a bit more tolerant, I say go for it to the folks who want something totally different...but for myself, I will hunt the tree lots for the perfect Frasier Fir to fill w/ memories. Just wish we could grow live ones here, as it still hurts to know this tree was cut down, and I'll have to discard it after the holidays. Will start earlier next year to find a live stand in for the Frasier that I can plant on our property. Keep the pics coming...it's better than the Dec issue of Country Home!! *Elaine*

Oh geez, Karen, I have a daughter who would jump on the black tree!! All of the walls in her house are a medium gray, and she has black carpet and black furniture. Her decorating is very nice, but I would find it depressing. It's just too dark!! A black tree would fit right in. She evidently hasn't seen them...thankfully!!

Grandmabarb, I love the old-fashioned look of your tree. The elf on the ladder is really neat!

~Sandy~

I'm so glad Kirk started this post! I love everyone's trees! They're all so different, and they tell alot about what each person likes, and their decorating style. You all inspire me to bring all those ornaments upstairs next year! It's funny, when I saw Kirk's post, I told my DH "They want to see everyone's Christmas tree! I have to decorate it now!". But then I saw Sandy's post, and I thought, what the heck, what you see is what you get!

Oh, I just love everyone's trees....they are all so unique and different from each other. I wish I had room for more than one tree because I would love to do several different themed trees. I have so many ornaments that are bird themed, that I really want to do a bird tree. I also collect gardening related ornaments and have a bunch of old ones my grandmother made many many moons ago and of course ones I've made or were made for me.

Right now we are using a 4' tall pre-lit tree, mainly for space reasons, but I wish I had a full size tree again because I couldn't even fit all my ornaments on it this year....I probably could have if I tried, but I didn't try...LOL. If I ever get that sun room I've been wanting I am going to have a bunch of trees in there. We are also building a greenhouse next year and that might be a good place to decorate for the holidays.

Here's mine from this year....I wish I could put ribbon and tinsel on it, but my cat would go nuts....

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I love all the awesomely wonderful trees! I don't plan to have a tree. we haven't had a tree (except last year I did have an 18" one, since Bill was sick) in years and years! When we did craft shows, we were in the mall from 8am until 11pm and were never home to enjoy one. There are no grandchildren, and no one here but me and DD and SIL. They don't have a tree either.
When we were first married we had 8' trees every year. The first ones were decorated with white, silver and green balls and of course we had 'lead' icicles (not those slippery ones like they have now). Then in 1969, purplemoon, I found me first purple balls and after that the green ones were left in the attic. I found some purple lights too (altho they were almost pink) and used white and purple lights.
It almost makes me want to go to the attic!
'Almost', I say! LOL
I might put the small one out again, if I can find it!

Nona, I'd love to go in your attic!! LOL.

Adina, I think having several trees is such fun. If you count my 3 little 2' ft ones, I have 7 in all this year. No big tree really, 5 ft is the tallest and that's the wall tree. I think themes are fun tho never did them before this year. A bird tree would be so cool with all your decorations, and little birdhouses and such. Maybe next year....? Or perhaps you could get a big wreath and do it with your birds? Lots of ways to use them besides trees if needed, garland around mirrors or mantles or whatever. I hope to get some nice bird ornaments after Xmas sales if I can. Saw some really pretty ones out this year.

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HI everyone! Everyone's trees are all so nice. It's so neat that we all have the love for the tree---and yet so wonderful that there isn't a one the same as the next one! Here's my tree. The Ankeny's 2007 Christmas Tree This one I got after Crhistmas last year via the internet. The former tree spent about a long 15 years in our family. It was looking really like a Charlie Brown Tree (needles fell off every year-and it was a fakie too!) So, I begged and was able to find this beauty! It came flocked with pinecones and berries already on it! I have about 10 big boxes full of decorations- but I only used about 1-2 this year. I'm thinking that the less things we have the better. Closet/storage management is hard work and I don't get paid for it! :-)
Oh yeah, this was taken on my NEW digital camera!!!
WE're heading out tomrorrow for Oregon. Ya'll have a great Christmas. I'll be checking in too since I have access to a 'puter at my in laws place.
Love, you guys!
Jules
PS: Ok, so I thought I knew HOW to post the actual picture to THE post, but the link is to a little picture! Well, I'll have to figure that one all out....

Heh heh...I was just going to say...you should have bought a bigger tree!

Have a safe trip and a wonderful Christmas!

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~Sandy~

This is a delightful posting! Thanks for sharing...I love ALL of the trees! I also like lots of trees and I am a sucker for buying them after Christmas. I have small ones 2-3 feet in 2 bedrooms, a bath ... and our biggest (fake one the last couple years) in LR and this one is in the dining room...it's my "snowman" tree...I leave it up for the winter (and sometimes that's a long time!) Also have a skinny neat one on the porch by the "ice skating pond."
What fun!!! Got to find JOY in the winter weather! Jeanne S. I can't seem to string along more than 1 pic...so I will add one more post.
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Here's the LR one...old Mr. & Mrs. Claus gets lot of attention from the "crawling grandchildren" ...it gets all the ornaments from over many years (well, a good portion anyway!) happy holidays! Jeanne S.

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I can't believe I forgot to post here ! I have a tree that I have bragged about and posted on so many forums -- it's the most special tree I've ever had. Why ? Because it's from one of our own - especially for me. I never used to be sentimental - but I think this will start it ~~~( I
Can't believe I'm getting so sappy ! LOL ) ...

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(((((((((( Sandy ))))))))))

Toomuchglass, out of all the wonderful trees on this thread, I think yours is truly the most beautiful one of all. Its decorated by an angel here, and done with love.
It may be tiny, but its got the whole spirit of Christmas wrapped up in those little branches.

hugs, Karen

Hey Kids.... T H A N K S !!! for all the lovely Pictures !!!
I just adore the many different Themes and Ideas !!!! each one is SOOOOOOO Special and not a single one alike....each one helping to be an extension of our lives and our feelings of FAMILY MEMORIES AND LOVING CHRISTMAS SPIRIT !!!!!!!!
Let's Never ~~ Ever Let them take away our CHRISTMAS/ or our CHRISTMAS TREES !!!!!
Stand Firm !!!! Unite TOGETHER!!!!!
You'll Never EVER get the CHRISTMAS OUT OF ME !!!!!
and I'll shout it from the roof tops.....
" M E R R Y + C H R I S T MAS YA'LL and
to all of YA'LL GOOD NITE !!!!!!'"
Susie
ho ho ho !

my christmas trees.one in the living room and one in the kitchen.http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f95/backyardmom/
i hope this works.

Well my tree is not as pretty as the other ones but I like it this year added some ribbon and tassels I made from instructions from a poster on the holiday forum... you should see the talent over there!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

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Here is a link that might be useful: photos i hope

GrandmaBarb, Just loved the pretty little birdhouse and the fantastic garden pointer. How clever you are!! Barb sent me a sign that she had made from an old piece of weathered board on which she had painted the prettiest yellow flowers on the left of the board. On the right of the board she had glued little tiny pointed pinecones in the shape of an arrow with blue jewels along the sides showing the way to the garden. On both the birdhouse and garden sign she had painted Ellens Joy. I am so happy that you were my Secret Santa as you nailed my personality to a tee. Thanks for the time you spent on my gift during this busy time of year. I love it. Ellen

OOOPS... wrong post! Will post on the Secret Santa Post :)
Sorry Ellen