Christmas decs, classy or brassy?

[Iwasthefourthwiseman]

So are your Christmas decorations elegant and tastefully co-ordinated, minimal and natural or bright, brash and tacky?

Mine are most certainly not matching, are bright, cheap and cheerful. In fact today I bought some of those tacky foil garlands to hang up as they remind me of my tacky childhood decorations.

It's tack-city at my place ! I do not have a tasteful bone in my body, unfortunately.

I just love Christmas decorations!!

Yes, matchy magazine style decorations make me feel a little bit uncomfortable. I like collections that have been built up over the years.

in the playroom it's tack central, anything that's bright and twinkly goes. In the living room it's a bit more tasteful though we do have coloured lights on our tree but no tinsel and just a few tea lights and a couple of evergreen garlands.

My friend's face was a picture the other day when her ds came out of school with his hand-made decorations. I'd be suprised if they made it onto the tree !

BTW, the shiny star on the top of my tree was hand-made by myself a couple of years ago out of cardboard and covered in tin foil - this is the standard of quality I am aiming for!

Our tree has a mix of very tasteful heirloom decorations accumulated from many generations, far flung travels etc, with stuff the DC have made at pre school and kindergarten, some recent purchases chosen by them, so owls for DS and fairies for DD, some medals that hang and therefore must be put on the tree, plus a rather fetching collaction of DD's (4) hairclips.

It doesn't match, its mishmash, haphazard and we all love it.

The other Christmas decorations in the house, however, are a paean to good taste.

we have an old plastic elf from the 70s can that be classed as an heirloon?

Yep - eclectic here too. We have some beautiful glass baubles, and lots of glitter and pipecleaner creations.

And lots of tinsel. I love tinsel. I'd love real foliage garlands wound round my banisters, but tinsel is much, much cheaper!

sea - oh yes. I have a ceramic Snoopy emblazoned with Christmas 1977 on. vair precious.

Mine are sort of 'tasteful Victorian medley' (poncetastic alert) and very different from one another - no matchy matchy here. Though I did once do a red and white 'Scandanavian' tree on holiday. I made lots of red and white lavender hearts and stars for it, which we now hang in a window together.

Haven't actually got them up yet though - we put the tree up on sunday, I lit it on monday and since then it's sat there. Can't summon up energy to decorate, and am prioritising draining my puffy, 39 week pregnant feet and ankles of an evening!

Oh I can sympathise. 12 week old Velcro baby here so decs only went up today.

Tack-a-rama and IMO that's how is should be!
I can't do elegant with 2 pups intent on eating a fake tree and decs before the Day itself!

Lol, mine are definitely "heirlooms". My Christmas tree lights are about 50 years old, fairy is over 40 (but don't worry we still love her ) and most of my baubles are about 20 years old....

However, they are reasonably tasteful (mostly gold/silver/red/green/blue). Just very old.....