O Christmas Tree -

[crazyheart]

 

[Mendalla]

Yours? Or just one you found for us?

Mine goes up next weekend, I hope.

 

[crazyheart]

Some of my kids who were not watching Grey Cup decorated my tree. - 3 grandsons, 1 Granddaughter and one

great granddaughter, 2 daughters and 1 son in law. Thank you .

Now show me your tree.

 

[Jaebius]

Now show me your tree.

Don't have a tree. Will soon have a Christmas rock. Will try to get a picture up.

 

[ChemGal]

Oh, I guess it's close to December. Don't really have much stuff up yet. Chemguy has some time off right now, so maybe later this week?

 

[crazyheart]

@Mendalla my tree

 

[Greywolf336]

My boyfriend's birthday is today and his family's rule was that Christmas things could not go up until after. So, we will start decorating next weekend. I've started putting decorations up at work.

 

[Tabitha]

Today Advent started. My tree is up and decorated. Yay Hockey billets and me.

 

[Seeler]

I too start decorating at the beginning of Advent. We have a new tree this year - six feet and prelighted. The old 7 1/2 foot tree was too heavy for Seelerman and stringing the lights too much for me - it's up for sale.
The new one fits nicely in my livingroom. Itgave me an excuse to get rid of some of my old ornaments andd now almost every ornament on my tree has a special meaning - handcrafted, or gifts, or bringing back memories, or picture-balls with my grandchildren with Santa. It cheers me every time I walk into the room and see it.
Did you ever notice that every Christmas tree is beautiful in its own way - mono-coloured, with a theme (Seelergirl leans towards white, crystal and silver with angels predominating. Some families let the young children take over, with lots of ornaments near the bottom and almost none near the top beyond their reach. I see Crazyheart has some hearts on hers.
I'll try to post a picture of mine if I can figure out how.

 

[Waterfall]

I'm not putting up a tree this year, but if I did let the grandkids decorate it would look like this:

 

[crazyheart]

Hahahaha @Waterfall When I opened the thread ,the top half of your tree showed. I thought "OMG,

where did all my decorations go?"

 

[ChemGal]

I'm not putting up a tree this year, but if I did let the grandkids decorate it would look like this:

I think my sister's tree is going to look kinda like the opposite of this. Full lights, but almost all ornaments on the top!

 

[ChemGal]

 

[Lastpointe]

We put up our on the 24th. A european tradition in my husbands famiily. When our kids were little we did it earlier

But now, we drive to our cottage on the 23 or 24, cut down a tree on the 24. Put it up, decorate it, have champaign and cheese. Listen to music

We decorate this one all in red gold white and silver and put real candles on it. We light them while we are sitting around on the 24. We relight then christmas morning and then they stay off. Little white lights fill the job then

 

[Mrs.Anteater]

Picked my tree on Saturday, junior decorated it while girlfriend and I baked cookies. Cat leaves it alone, except for drinking out of the tree stand. No breakable ornaments on it as long as she is capable to wreck it.
( She just has started the habit of jumping upon the stove and from there on the top of the kitchen cabinets.)
I thought she might find the tree to prickely- but then again, she walks over the cacti....

 

[BetteTheRed]

Except for the fact that I keep only unbreakable ornaments on the bottom branches, because something shiny is fun to "bat at" if you're a cat, I've never had much trouble with cats and trees, and I've always had both.

 

[Jaebius]

Except for the fact that I keep only unbreakable ornaments on the bottom branches, because something shiny is fun to "bat at" if you're a cat, I've never had much trouble with cats and trees, and I've always had both.

My family (my mom, dad, and we kids) usually had both cat(s) and dog in the house. We never really had a problem with our cats and Christmas tree. On the other hand, we had trees knocked down by one of our dogs.

 

[Mendalla]

My family's original cat (born when I was 4) limited her assaults on the Christmas tree to batting at ornaments and drinking the water as far as I can recall. Her successor, adopted by my family after I moved out, did climb the tree (and the curtains, and anything else climbable) when she was a kitten.

 

[BetteTheRed]

Yeah, kittens are a bit unpredictable; I've tended to rescue cats at the 8 month to 1 year stage, when they're a little more stable...

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

I suppose this year I have an interfaith decor thing going on. The Buddha figure and the lotus and pussywillow-mirror display was already here, and I kept it up on the shelf and just added those snowflakes - and on the other side of the shelf, a few Christmas decorations but no tree - just a live poinsettia and that's it. The rest of my decorations are in storage and I don't want too many up.

(It keeps saying my files are too large to load. They're just simple photos I just took. I even cropped one but it still said it's too large)