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Tastefully decorated or a mishmash of love...which describes your tree?

61 replies

HenniPenni · 06/11/2006 22:27

DH wants tastefull colour co-ordinated tree and trimmings....we will have mishmash of all the lovely decs that the DDs have made over the last 6 years. What do you like?

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Skribble · 07/11/2006 00:36

My tree has allsorts, including decorations I made at primary school and of course stuff the kids make or have bought over the years. We did have a red, gold and green colour scheme but it is more red and white scandinavian now, enhanced with all the multicoloured handmade things.

Kids have little trees in their rooms to so mare space for decorations.

joelallie · 07/11/2006 08:21

I stick to red, gree, silver, gold, glass and wood. Traditional and tasteful I like to think. Then of course there are the toilet rolls covered in cotton wool with a face drawn on with felt-tip and cardboard wings. And the stars that shed glitter like snow etc etc. So I think tasteful and experimental.......

lazycow · 07/11/2006 17:24

Mishmash for me. I was always like this even pre children. All that elegant colour co-ordinated stuff just doesn't do it for me I'm afraid.

PanicPants · 07/11/2006 17:29

I cheat and have 2!

One is all silver and tasteful, which goes in the 'middle' room.

The other is every colour under the sun, with every sized bauble on it imaginable! Some are ones my mother had on her tree when she was a child, so it's very special.

mousiemousie · 07/11/2006 17:34

A green tree downstairs with red and white scandinavian style decorations

A pink tree in dd's room with pink, white and silver fluff sparkle decorations

My mum has the mish mash of memories tree!

joelallie · 07/11/2006 18:51

I have some refugees from my parents tree when I was little. Some chiffon angels that play golden instruments, a few beautiful Austrian glass baubles that somehow survived my bro and I. I was so when mum decided to get rid and buy new!!!! But sometimes I think that kids idealise their childhoods whereas parents also remember the hard slog and find it quite nice when it's all over.

ComeOVeneer · 07/11/2006 18:54

I am one for a very stylish co-ordinated tree. Now we have children who are old enough to participate I have decided to do 2 this year (if we have moved by christmas). The grown up one upsrtairs in the living room and a smaller child decorated one downstaris in the playroom.

pointydog · 07/11/2006 19:00

Tried tasteful when dd1 was v small. But Christmas is for kids, they decorate it now and so it is dog's dinner.

What I find is, if you chuck loads and loads of silver angel hair all over it, it actually looks very very pretty and almost faux-tasteful.

PrincessPeaHead · 07/11/2006 19:08

tasteful is naff

there is nothing tasteful about christmas - bring on the glitter and flashing lights I say! It should be fun!

I don't know who people are trying to impress with their perfect silver-and-lilac colour schemes, bleurghh

TheHighwayCod · 07/11/2006 19:09

miine is green and spikey

motherinferior · 07/11/2006 19:09

I think I can safely say that taste is not a major concept in the Inferiority Complex, and certainly not when it comes to the tree. Which is rampantly fake, and decorated with anything DP and the Inferiorettes fancy. I have no problem as long as it has an adequate supply of chocolate coins.

Twiglett · 07/11/2006 19:10

we strive for eclectic bizarre

Twiglett · 07/11/2006 19:10

what happened to the woman who was looking for a pre-decorated tree I wonder

noddyholder · 07/11/2006 19:11

I like a nice real tree with lots of red green and gold and the house is usually full of fairy lights.I think over co ordinated is so naff my mum has a selection of awful fake trees in colours to match her decor Hideous!!!

Twiglett · 07/11/2006 19:14

last year's tree please note the use of the 'christmas octopus' an important Christmas tradition denoting the end of decoration [snurk]

JoolsToo · 07/11/2006 19:15

you forgot to put the fairy on top

Twiglett · 07/11/2006 19:16

yeah I was just getting the ladder Gin

joelallie · 07/11/2006 19:16

I had some friends years ago that used to buy a whole new tree and decs EVERY YEAR from John Lewis. Totally co-ordinated and ever so tasteful. Also boring and lacking in imagination. I was so gobsmacked when I found out!! I hadn't known that ANYONE would do such a thing...

motherinferior · 07/11/2006 19:20

I seem to remember Twiglett's Christmas tree is far too exciting for decorations [snigger]

pointydog · 07/11/2006 19:20

Yer tree's squint twiglett. Right a bit.

Twiglett · 07/11/2006 19:22

it is rare that I don't know what you're on about MI, but I don't know what you're on about

motherinferior · 07/11/2006 19:22

Wasn't it your husband who got out his Throbbing Tool to adjust the Christmas tree a bit while you were sitting on it?

Twiglett · 07/11/2006 20:01

aha .. now I know what you're on about

7up · 07/11/2006 20:02

mishmash of love! the boys chuck stuff on it

SSSandy · 07/11/2006 20:04

We have a BIG tree. The top is reasonably tasteful. We got nice German decorations, sort of onion dome shaped glass balls with a sprig of tinsel inside and I don't do colour schemes, so it's white lights, the transparent, sparkly balls and some silver and gold and red ones. The skirt of the tree is dd territory and she puts up what she wants but they're not too grim -little painted wooden things from the Christmas markets and some angels and things. I put those small coloured lights around the bottom.

Sounds weird but usually looks good