I like an eclectic tree. I have some from my grandmother, some my children made in school, cloth, wood, plastic, glass. There is a story to go with each and every one of them.

Flocked tree with 1000 white lights that's all.

i have an angel tree in the living room with white angels and Waterford ornaments. The tree in the family room my great grandson helps me decorate therefore most of the ornaments are on the lower half of the tree. we love it.

This year's tree unfortunately is shedding needles so badly that it is not coming in the house. However, outside, it will provide shelter for small birds and be decorated with suet and seed ornaments.

We have a number of Christmas trees displayed to celebrate the season. The hardest to decorate is the nine foot tree covered with figural ornaments of Santa dressed in red. We also have a multicolored tree of only Santa's "head." We do a snow people tree and a gold tree with only peacock ornaments on it. But, my very favorite tree is a small pewter wire tree displayed in my bedroom. The small miniature ornaments are by Patricia Breen. Each of the Santas is dressed in black as they are in morning for my mother. My mother loved Christmas and this tree is a reminder of her love of the season.

I have a collection of horse ornaments to go along with my favorite obsession. I like glass balls and opulent ornaments to go along with them. My entire extended family loves to decorate for Christmas, including figurines and other stuff besides a tree. This is the season to share regardless of religious observance.

I like everything except paper. Also, there must be tons of old fashioned tinsel; the kind you hang one or two strands at a time. Also, the tree must be full of lights. It often takes me a week or so to trim the tree but it is worth it to me. Happy Holidays.

We make our own tree every year….here is this year's tree inspired by this season's winner of Project Runway.

I have 2 trees...the ornaments on one tree are all Santas that I have collected over the years. I will give them to my son (named Nicholas) when he gets his own place. On the other tree the ornaments are all Angels (my pet name for my daughter). I just gave that tree and ornaments to my daughter who just bought her first house.

Here is my Santa tree.

Classic all the way!

I decorate 2 trees every year; one with white lights and a snow theme that sits in the sun room, the other tree is our family tree which I decorate with colored lights and a wide assortment of ornaments including family made and personal ornaments which I buy new for everyone every year.

I have all kinds of ornaments that have acquired in travels and just because I saw them and liked them especially well. I also use frame ornaments for pictures of loved ones who have passed, so they are with us as we enjoy the season. Regrettably, I have had to add five family members over the last two Christmases. But, it is comforting to see their faces smiling at me from the tree.

Most are from the Depression era or earlier...the highest one is my mother's first ornament (1911) and is a plastic face baby bundled in cotton.

My tree decorations are silver, gold, white, or clear glass, and as much sparkle as I can find or glue on. My sister and I have exchanged ornaments every Christmas for years and I usually buy myself a duplicate of the ornaments I give her, so now I have many very pretty glass balls. Then I fill out the tree with lots of small silver and gold glass balls that glue glitter on, But what really makes the tree is my glass icicles, which I've been collecting for many years. I have around 250 of them now. They take a while to hang, but the effect is beautiful.

I also have a collection of glass icicles and a large clear acrylic angel; everyone thinks it's crystal. Also, garland made of green glass beads. When light shines through glass icicles, green glass bead garlands and clear acrylic angel on tree-top; it's Heavenly.

I would love to have a tree filled with assorted handmade and/or classic glass, metal, and wooden nativities. And lots of white lights.

A variety...it tells a story...a life time of stories.

All of the above

I love the sparkle of glass ornaments but I also love all my children's creations. My tree has a mix of 40 years of memories. The only souvenirs I bring home are Christmas ornaments so each of those has it's own story.....I guess my tree would be called eclectic!

I have a variety. I usually get a few new ones each year.

I love a variety so that the tree has no set theme or color scheme - but rather each ornament is unique. I do this as a way of hopefully letting everyone find something they like on it. Having large dogs I have unbreakable ones around the bottom while others are nestled deep inside. It is also on a rotating base to allow all the ornaments to show.

We love Christmas! We put up several trees. I have a Kitchen Tree with actual kitchen cookware, antique children s cooking utensils, and modern kitchen ornaments. We also have our family tree, we've given ornaments to our kids each year and each other. And, when we travel we try to find an ornament from there as well. Also, a small one with miniature German ornaments we bought while there.

I have a combination of the classic glass ornaments and more rustic wood and natural type ornaments, scattered with some of my children's handmade ornaments. Our tree is more sentimental with a story that goes along with almost every ornament.

I use mostly assorted fabric ornaments. In a household with pets I find they are safer if any happen to fall on the floor so there are no shards to hurt the paws. I combine these with plastic ornaments that also don't break on falling. I've received and collected throughout the years a variety of ornaments and try to stay with golden orange, red and white and olive green. I started with partridge in a pear tree and incorporated figures of Santas and cats, even a few photo ornaments, and glittery ones, a fun tree!

I have two trees. One is more rustic with colored lights and wood, fabric, and metal ornaments. The second has my fun ornaments of cartoon characters or Hallmark ornaments.

So many beautiful Christmas trees here! I love them all. I just finished my main tree; it has different types of ornaments collected over many years. Hand blown glass, Mercury glass, even some paper. The whole tree is first strung in strands of crystal a friend gave me years ago from some old chandeliers. I have a second tree that has all homemade ornaments from my mother, grandmother, mother in law etc. they are all gone now so it is very sentimental to us.

I love a tree that's decorated with a combination of ornaments that tell a story. Perhaps the family originally bought glass ornaments (that all matched/coordinated) and over the years added ones that were gifts, picked up on trips, made by children, etc. That's the kind of tree that gets more than a passing glance from me!!

I don't have children but I do have ornaments that some of my students and friends have given me over the years. Beyond that, I like my tree to reflect nature and, most of all, the reason for Christmas in the first place.

We have many very old ornaments that have been in the family for many years.

I think a mix of ornaments chosen for a style or to tell a family story makes a tree interesting. You can have a "designer" look and still have your own tastes and interests come through.

Luces, luces y Más LUCES !! ... Para mi es Lo Más Importante, Que mi casa, el árbol de Navidad, El Pesebre y cualquier otro adorno, tenga lucesitas !!

I love one of a kind ornaments. I enjoy picking one up each year!

Jesus was born in August. Read your bible history. Axial tilt is the reason for the season!

I like all of the above but each type on a different tree.

Everything!! Mostly glass

Whites and silvers give a clean elegant feeling to the home.

We go with whatever the kids like. Last year was paper snowflakes. This year is straws and frisbees!

Large bow on top (usually some shade of red) with wide (about 4") streamers either twisted or tucked in between the branches as they flow down the tree. Usually 4 to 6 streamers total that come down about 3/4 the length of the tree. Fill in with two colors of shiny balls (usually red and silver or red and gold). Having the ribbon in a print with one or two of the other colors works nicely.

Red and gold flowers and bows. And clear lights.

please guys old post, way too early for christmas!

There are many styles of decorated trees I like so I usually have 5 theme Christmas Trees. A simple Charlie Brown Style, a live one outdoors with only white lights and red bows, a tree with Horse Carousels which move up and down with flashing lights and music playing, a ceramic tree and the a live 12 foot Balsam Fir pine imported from Nova Scotia (branches are further apart for larger ornaments and tinsel plus some 100-200 year old fragile glass ornaments from Europe and the USA.)

This one has 600 lights, 300 ornaments and 78,000 strands of tinsel each placed individually upon the limbs starting from the trunk outward, topped with a handmade angel.

Upon being on tour one year in the Soulard French Quarter in a 3 story home in Saint Louis, MO, we had a tree on each floor and one upon the second floor deck and served chestnuts just roasted on an open fire for each person upon leaving.

One gentleman told me, "I will never forgive you for this!" He then walked away from me. I was uncertain how to respond, so I merely smiled and continued to speak about the trees and 1800's home.

Apparently his wife and daughter fell in love with the tinsel tree and told her husband: "From now on it is a tinsel tree." (Apparently he had them convinced their garland was nicer.) She even wrote down the steps in order to make it happen.

After touring all three floors they came out as a family and he turned to me and said, "Never, ever will I forgive you." -- Actually it is an easy tree to decorate. In addition to the items it only takes 24 to 72 hours to complete; but the result is so magical. The lights reflecting off the tinsel and to the ornaments off the tinsel to create a glittering magical room for celebrating. (Oddly enough I met the wife while doing some post Christmas Shopping. She spotted me and was eager to tell me about their tinsel tree. Personally I began to expect a story about her husband being furious and ruining the season. Instead he went a step further, he would not let them see the tree until it was finished and made them wait until Christmas Eve to see the final result upon their block party that evening.

He played it up and unlocked the sliding doors and let his daughter open the doors for a huge number of guests. Apparently the story got around and the block party came along with their invited guests and families. All outer room lights were turned off with the guests standing in the dark eagerly awaiting the grand viewing (Apparently there was a practice in the past that each family on a block had a party from Christmas Eve through New Years Day for their grand viewing. Those were days of pacing life and a little more formal with traditions practiced annually) The daughter opened the sliding doors for the viewing. He had apparently spent hours doing this creation of good cheer, sometimes during the night when his wife tried sneaking in to get a glimpse of the progress only to find she was locked out and told she had to wait. --- She told me that if he was going to do it, it was going to be the best possible; and, it was.

They took a family photo the next day to have cards made to use for New Year's Greetings. His tinsel was strung one by one filling the branches from tree trunk to the end of each limb. Many newer ornaments and their own family treasure of glass ornaments, some the size of a small plum hanging upon the upper branches. --- I still wonder if I have been forgiven. The postcard was kinda like receiving a statement with the only sentence written upon it saying, "Well, I accomplished the deed. Thanks for giving my wife the directions for I would never have achieved the magic and enjoyed seeing my family's eyes and faces filled with joy." "Now I am having to pass along the directions; and, some of my neighbors feel like I did during your tour." --- I believe that meant I was being forgiven. Oh, how I love that time of the year. How could I not? I was a Christmas gift myself: being born Christmas Eve morning. It really is the simple things in life that make it so joyful; except maybe a tree trimming with 78,000 strands of tinsel.

I have received at least one keepsake ornament every year of my life. Each represents something I liked that year or another milestone. My tree is full of memories. Nothing matches. There is no color theme, really. But it is a precious and beautiful walk down memory lane every year I decorate. Perfect Christmas trees belong in department stores.

Meaningful ornaments is my choice - whether personal or spiritual. With your photos above, I love the sheep, because I am a Christian and just looking at even one of them, it reminds me of the Lamb of God and of the Good Shepherd.

My favorite Christmas tree is decorated with white angels and Waterford ornaments.

We have 2 trees. 1 a kitchen tree sits on our island. mrs. claus with a broom, wearing glasses is on the top, while all types o small kitchen ornaments circle the tree. The garlands are small apples. Small toys and boxes are placed on the skirt around the tree. our big tree has all kinds of ornaments, white lights, and garlands. My special love is nutcrackers. they are displayed all around the house.

We try to buy a new ornament from every new place we travel. The result is an unorganized mixture of ornaments with no apparent theme. However, each piece means something to us and I think that's the reason for the season!

I have bought a variety of small picture frames of varying types and have inserted photos of family members including copies of some photos from the late 1800's even. We use those as Christmas ornaments. Pretty easy to tie them onto tree branches using decorative silver and gold string.

I like shiny ornaments.

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