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What sort of Christmas tree and decorations do you like?

Do you stick to a colour scheme or just have a hotch-potch of old 'family' decorations that come out every year?

Are you a sophisticated minimalist or a 'more the merrier' decorator ? :))

More the merrier :))))

SRS, I have boxes of stuff lol, last year I couldn't put up my favourite paper Chinese lanterns because of making holes in a rented ceiling...but this year they're going up :))

I don't know about sophisticated...lol but I am a bit of a minimalist.
This year I will attempt to do my Christmas tree all with decorations of one colour, silver....

Evening Rose and SRS, trust you are both well.

Now and again over years thought I would like a themed tree however what would I do with the ornaments beginning from my daus first Christmas? Dau put a black tree up in hall 3 years ago with silver ornaments - I thought it looked uck but didn't say but thank goodness there in the family room was a tree with her first Christmas ornaments on it!!!!

A real tree Foggy? or artificial?

I've got an artificial one but if I see a small potted real one I will buy it, I've had them before and planted them out in the garden, several 'took' and were growing well but unfortunately i had to leave them in Wales ( and they were bulldozed by new owners ...philistines lol)

Our Christmas tree has many 'memories' decorations.
We have small items bought in Cyprus and wooden ones from Germany.
A ceramic hanging ornament is from Ireland and glass ones from Prague. From New Zealand we have shell decorations and these all go on with a selection of aged items, some home-made, which have become firm favourites.
I do like real trees, but we have a large realistic artificial one now.


Gwyn

I guess I'm a bit of a more the merrier . I use the same decorations every year ( more or less ) but usually buy three or four new bits to hang on the " tree " , which isn't actually a tree at all , as I suspend a few branches of my dogwood shrub from the ceiling and hang the baubles etc from those.

A real tree this year, Rose.
There is a plantation a couple of miles up the road that grows them.

Artifical tree, with a red and gold theme through out the sitting room and windows decorated with those sticky pictures,
fireplace decorated with two large father Christmas's each side and garland strung along the fireplace.

You can't beat the smell of a real tree Foggy, it's worth the needles in the carpet for that lol.

I think the oldest decoration I have still intact is a red plastic star, it pre-dates me anyway ;)

Not that old then Rose...lol

Real or nothing at all.
The smell of pine mmm!! Decor, some from my childhood, some from over the years and a few new. Not exactly themed but not all colours. Mainly gold, silver, red green.

It has to be a real tree for me and traditional with multicoloured lights.

A couple of years back I did a themed tree, blue was the fashion, it lasted 1 night. Next day it was all change. It just made me really annoyed.

My favourite tree ornaments are a little furry mouse dressed in Santa outfit and a teddy with an opened toybox.

lol Foggy, old enough to now look better in a dim light ;o)

My favourite lights were the ones we had from when I was tiny, round and cone shaped coloured glass...sadly the wiring was eventually repaired so many times they weren't safe....but I still have 'my' special bulb, the purple one, to remind me.

I do like a Christmas Tree to be colourful :) I love the Christmas tree lights when I was little too :) Sadly gone.

Always a real tree here.I would be on the naughty step if I got an artificial one lol.I desperately need a new fairy for the top,and I can't find one.I don't want a star I just want a nice fairy/angel without one of those hideous faces.I am definitely traditional!