Our tree is getting old now. My wife was thinking about an umbrella tree. Anyone know if they work and look nice?
Here is this year's decorations with an extra special decoration on the skirt.
My wife knitted the skirt 3 years ago.
Christmas Tree photo and talk thread.
Our tree is getting old now. My wife was thinking about an umbrella tree. Anyone know if they work and look nice?
Here is this year's decorations with an extra special decoration on the skirt.
My wife knitted the skirt 3 years ago.
Last edited by What Exit?; 28 Nov 2009 at 07:42 PM.
I just noticed your topper, Jim. That's cute! How long have you been topping your tree like that?
I bought the tree in 1993 when my wife went to visit her parents in Florida and I had Mr. Moose on top even that year. He was bought as a joke a year or two before that.Originally posted by OtakuLoki
Aw, that's great. Dot looks so nice and cuddly in those pictures, too. Very cute!
I never put my tree up until after my birthday (December 8th, so get shopping!), but I'll surely get some pictures of it to share. Oh, and then I can tell you all the story of Tony!
I'm looking forward to the story and pics.
Bonus though it does not really fit, Dot Video: Playing in the Deep Sink with the leak: http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...P1050570-1.flv
If I had a Christmas tree, I'd want to find one of these under it. Aw.
I read this title as Does Your Christmas Tree Talk? And thought, Christ--Xmas is just bizarre now....
Cute kitty and topper.
We get live trees, so I can't help you. (and it's too soon to be doing this stuff--stop it!).
Hey, for those of us the use fake trees, Thanksgivings weekend is a fairly normal time to decorate. When you get the tree up though, share some pictures here.
Don't turn this into a cat porn thread guyze.We don't put up our tree til about the 13th so you will all have to wait until then to see a mangy Irish christmas tree.
We aren't putting ours up until this weekend, but when we do, I will post pics!
The tree's not up yet (hopefully will be by the end of the day), but thought I'd show you some photos of my fireplace mantle decorations. Here's the family room fireplace, with our collection of nutcrackers:
And here's the dining room fireplace (unfortunately with a big pile of the kids' coloring books next to it, but those will get cleared closer to Christmas):
You have an ARMY of nutcrackers. I smell an 1980s horror movie.
The house looks great. What time is it from, you don't see craftsmanship like that in postwar houses.
I love the woodwork around the fireplace.
The house is from 1894. However, pretty much none of what you see in these pictures is original (the window in the Hobbies thread is). The fireplaces had been plastered over a long time ago, and we have restored them. The gas fireplace in the family room is a new fireplace, and we did the tiling around it, put in the brick hearth and bought an old mantle from a lady in Wisconsin whose bed and breakfast we stayed in once...she collected them...had one in every room as decoration, and this was an extra! Isn't it beautiful? It's definitely old, from the arts & crafts/bungalow era. As you say, they don't make stuff like that anymore. We wanted to decorate the room in that style (even though the house dates from earlier), so it was perfect. The room also did not have that wainscoting...my husband put that in.
The mantle in the dining room we bought at a flea market. That fireplace isn't a working one (they were all gas originally, but the pipes are long disconnected. We had a line run to the one in the family room but we didn't want to bother doing it in the DR.) We did do the tiled hearth on this one, too. The chair rail and crown moulding we also did ourselves...the house was pretty much stripped of all that ornamentation if it ever had any.
OK, here's the tree:
We don't have much space in the living room, so the Christmas tree is just a little plastic one on a table. That doesn't stop us from decorating the hell out of it, though. There are three generations of family ornaments on it.
This year we decided to only do two colors of balls, so red and green won out. I thought it would be interesting to do everything on the tree in two colors, but there were too many old, favorite ornaments that absolutely had to go up.
When I was in kindergarten, I was heading up to meet with my mom after the last day of class before Christmas break. Fluttering in the dry Nevada wind was a paper gingerbread boy that someone in another class must have made. Sadly, neither I nor my mother knew who in the world Tony could be. To honor that poor little boy who never got to take his decoration home for his parents to gush over, we always put the Tony gingerbread boy in a prominent place on the tree.
We will never forget, Tony. Your effort was appreciated.
This corner was full of junk. Including boxes from when we moved in two years ago. It was completely unusable. Now it has a Christmas tree!
I'm still swimming in harmony. I'm still dreaming of flight. I'm still lost in the waves night after night...
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Zuul: that's one of the sweetest stories I've ever heard.
pep: great job with your organizing! The tree looks great, and so does its corner!
Sarah, your tree looks lovely. I like the skirt.
Zuul, that is a well loaded tree, I love the little Gingerbread man and the especially the story behind it.
Pep, the shot is a little fuzzy, I like the long Beatles posters you have up.
Thanks, Jim. I love that your wife knitted your skirt...very cool idea. I'd like to cross-stitch one someday, but it's too big a project to take on for another few years.
No one else has a pic of their tree yet?
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Bump as we are getting close now.
Dot has been undecorating the bottom of the tree for us and has been seen about 2/3rds of the way up.
I just decorated mine today. It looks kinda crap.I don't have my camera charger to take a photo, sorry folks.
Here's mine... no sniggering you lot!
To sleep, perchance to experience amygdalocortical activation and prefrontal deactivation.
Aw, ivan, it's so cute!
It's not about size - it's how you present it!Aw, ivan, it's so cute!
To sleep, perchance to experience amygdalocortical activation and prefrontal deactivation.
Our tree:
A defining thing about our tree is the number of sock monkeys that appear on it. There are 5 I think right now, people think it's hysterical that I'm creeped out by them, so naturally I get them as Christmas gifts.
Hell, if I didn't do things just because they made me feel a bit ridiculous, I wouldn't have much of a social life. - Santo Rugger.
So someone else has an irrational dislike of sock monkeys? That is good to know. I can't stand the varmints myself.
My tree has taken a beating this year. Dot has really trashed the lower branches.
Ivan I like the little tree. That works well.
Irrational? No way, creepy goddamned things. I don't even like to be in the same room as a real one. They have rape in their eyes.
Hell, if I didn't do things just because they made me feel a bit ridiculous, I wouldn't have much of a social life. - Santo Rugger.
It's looking a bit dishevelled since Christmas. Blurry pic too, woot!
Oh blurry tree, oh blurry tree, thy leaves are so unfocused.
Looks quite festive, AG!
Our house is quite festive in its decor anyway. Here's one of the fireplace.
Oh, that's fantastic. You've got some really interesting things up on that shelf, too. It looks as though your house holds many stories. I love well lived-in homes.
Though now I have the burning desire to go through every single thing on that shelf and ask about them.
Fire away. Ask about anything you see.
Okay, on the shelf, fifth over from the right corner. The thing that looks like a duck with a hole through it.
What's that?
It is a duck ornament, presumably a napkin holder of some sort.
So it IS a duck with a hole in it. I was worried I was completely off-base.
A bit further over from the napkin holder you've got two bottles. Booze or condiments?
One is Scottish "sheep dip", another is a commemorative bottle of booze from when Tyrone won the All Ireland Final in Gaelic Football in 2003. I think they both had whisk(e)y in them once.
Christmas Bump.
Tree is up for 2010 and pics will eventually follow. Dot is already in the tree and knocking things over.
Tree is all LED lights and on timers.
Did all of our decorating today, other than the tree. Nutcrackers are all staring at me as I type this! Tree will probably go up tomorrow, and will look pretty much just like it did last year.
I've been told not to put up the fake tree this year because "your stupid cat will just knock it over and start a fire".
There WILL be a tree of some kind in this house if it kills me.
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