Never the Same Tree Twice

Already thinking about how I would like to decorate for next year!  I love having more than one Christmas tree in my home.  I love the ambiance of the lights.  We put one tree up in our living room and one in the family room.  Now when I have extra time (if that ever happens) I like to put a tree up in my bedroom and two in the extra bedrooms.

I need to do a different style on my trees according to the mood I am in.  The living room tree changes according to my whims.  This year it has snow on its branches with mostly white and gold baubles very heavily hanging on it.  It also has approximately 500 white lights on it.  It is a pencil tree.   In some prior years, I again used white lights, but the decorations consisted of the colors of my room which were terra cotta, blue, and creme.  I also don’t put as many ornaments on it as I did this year.  

When my girls were little and living at home it was decided that each one would have about a four-foot Christmas tree in their room.  I like to decorate a tree to coincide with the colors they used in their rooms.  My oldest daughter had a pink, white, and green bedroom.  So, her tree was a combination of those colors.  The tree had white lights with pink, green, and white ornaments.  I would purchase small tabletop trees.  One year I had the tree cut in half, the long way, and hung it on her wall.  It saved floor space which was the idea behind this.  I might add the guy at the tree lot thought I was a little nuts as he never had that request before.  The other bedroom was done in yellow lights with red accents, then got changed to yellow and blue.  Again we had a smaller tree, probably about four feet, and decorated it in the colors to coincide with the room.  The lights on this tree were always yellow.  

One thing that was interesting about getting the trees for the girls was that these trees were far from perfect.  So, to make them acceptable, especially in my youngest girl’s eyes, we had to do fillers.  This entailed taking miscellaneous branches that were collected and stuffing them in the bare spots on the trees.  It worked, and no one would ever know that they were really ugly to start with.

The tree in my family has usually been decorated with amber lights, leaf roping, grapevines, navy blue and copper ornaments, and sometimes hydrangea blossoms.  I like putting a lot of nature on my tree even including bird nests.

This year my family room tree was a surprise to even me and a little wild to the eye.  I put multi-colored LED lights on it.  I put on a lot of lights.  When I lit it up it shocked me as it was bright.  Now, I am already thinking about next year. I think I will put multi-colored lights on it like this year, multi-colored ornaments, and would like sticky-outy (??) things sticking all over the place.  

We’ll see how that develops.  So, on to next year.

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