John Lewis Christmas department - is it me?

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Have they gone for the outright bonkers?

The decorations are themed by colour.

Green/peacock, pale pink, white, red and russet.

Each set of beautifully made glass baubles contain odd additions.

Green for example has avocados, asparagus, onions, wellington boots, greenhouses, Santa as a gardener and a floret of broccoli.

Red has a roast turkey and all the trimmings, a turkey staring straight at you with a full fan tail, a cook book, bacon and eggs in a frying pan, a chocolate Yule log and a pork pie, complete with red berry.

Russet has a caravan and a variety of toadstools.

Tinsel, decorative objects and tree skirts all coordinate.

Who's going to buy all this?

Who's buying a gigantic bauble filled with feathers (white)?

Who's buying a garland consisting of folksy pom-poms and bells?

This is one of my favourite decorations that I got last year! The year before I got a merman from the same place & got a sloth several years ago from Accessorize 👌🏼

crysanthemum I think the narwhal was Grisela Graham? Hang on, I'll have a look....

Op paper chase is worse.

Sorry crysanthemum it's Sass and Belle. I've had a quick Google but it doesn't seem to be in stock anywhere.

You’d hate my tree we don’t have a set colour theme, just loads of random tree ornaments like dinosaurs, m&ms, pandas etc. I hadn’t thought of checking John Lewis actually! I like to get a new one each year...

I love the garden themed ones, I think I’ll be adding a couple to my bauble collection!

I don't have set theme or matching baubles either but I can't get my head round some of these things...

Who doesn’t love a glittery lumberjack!

@BentNeckLady exaxtly 😂

Ha ha @Powerplant, just stick to aibu that’s probably more up your street. Complaining about Christmas in the Christmas topic.

Some of the ones I've seen have made me laugh but I guess maybe that's the point? Different tastes and different fun for people. I'll stick to my usual decorations but if it was up to my son we may have dinosaurs and snacks lol

This was definitely a marketing thread for JL 😆. It worked, I've bought a sloth and a velociraptor

I love it all! I want the full English in a pan they have!

avocado + Santa in a tent = even Santa is unable to afford a house in the North Pole due to his smashed avocado addiction

This made me laugh.

The only rule for our tree is no fat tinsel (beads, skinny tinsel and other stringy stuff is OK). Otherwise anything goes, the brighter and sparklier the better. We live in quite a naice area and lots of people round here have tasteful (cough, boring) trees with white baubles, wooden decorations and the like. We stick ours by the front window and proudly show off our affront to taste. Getting the decorations down from the loft, unwrapping them and remembering the fun times we had buying them makes me happy every year. There gaudy, amateur ones the kids made in nursery, some of my Grandma’s 1950s glass baubles, tree decorations that DH & I made the first year we lived together. A lifetime of precious things, basically.

I have a fairy in a glass jar from Paris (circa year 2001), a glass mushroom clipped on (Disneyland Florida circa 2012), a snowman made from a cream bottle and cotton wool (circa 1982), a pink paper bird (circa 1999), an astronaut, a blue whale, a jellyfish, 3 robots, birds in different colours and styles, various stars and pine cones, 3 different nativities (glass, clay, pewter - from Ireland, Brazil and Austria, 2000, 2004 and 2004), some plastic candy canes and glass tear-drops, a moose, a mouse wearing a wreath, various Santas and Shepherds and Angels. and a few plainer round baubles. And a CAnadian Log Cabin that requires some assembly from 2013 (that I still need to assemble ).

Some come out every year. Some only come out some years. But I love to look at the various things that I have made, or bought on special trips over the years.

I am thinking about a 2nd tree this year in our playroom - traditional red and gold in the sitting room and the more silvers, green, blue and white things (and the pops of colour) in the playroom.

I am a little bit in love with the Party Themed Christmas Tree with the Neon, Blue and Pink.

I do get the the trend for glass novelty decorations of whatever-the-hell 'random' objects - though I preferred the older ones that this trend sprouted out of: the traditional vintage glass decorations that were weird, bonkers and fascinatingly ugly, not because someone had sat down and tried to make the most random decoration they could think of, but because they genuinely thought they were making something Christmassy and nice. I remember seeing a vintage one years ago of a huge Christmas mouse with a drum, with the most unsettling expression of psychotic malice on its face (a happy accident of artisan craftsmanship). It was brilliant.

However, merman Santas and glittery boxes of nuggets are not for me. I don't have a single matching decoration on my tree, but they're all green-gold-red proper Christmas, like a rich Victorian auntie would have.

Re: Davie Bowie decorations...

David Bowie Decoration
www.okla.co.uk/collections/christmas/products/davidbowieornament - £15.99

The same one in Selfridges is £28!!!
www.selfridges.com/GB/en/cat/christmas-david-bowie-ornament-14cm_200-3002220-GO1065/

Still exortionate, but thats a rincing of over a tenner less

(I want but can't justify)

Damn damn damn! Why did I have to do my Xmas shopping early??? I usually get friends' kids book tokens - already bought last month - as they're well into books.
Looking at the John Lewis Xmas decorations - they'd kill for a Red T-Rex tree bauble - they all love dinosaurs!
Soooooo annoyed.
Can't afford to get them both as on a tight budget :-(

There's an Astronaut Tim!

Much as I'd like to day I have a carefully curated tree,bit looks more like Christmas threw up in my living house. Bright, coloured lights and tack central on the Christmas kitchen tree chez Belinda. Might need a JL comedy bauble. All the ones I remember as a kid at my grandparents were like those "retro" ones in the shops now. Love them.

Living room is more subtle, mind!!

Sunshinestanley - I thought I was the only one with a narwhal on the Christmas tree Also practically every animal that ever went into the ark. Grandchildren look forward to seeing what new animal I will add each year. I will soon need two trees. Devastated that our nearest John Lewis is over two and a half hours away (subject to traffic)

Chrysanthemum5 - I got some of our more maritime decorations from the National Maritime Museum at Falmouth but it was several years ago

John Lewis dinosaur decorations are £8.

They aren't on their website, but I had a trip to the Trafford Centre at the weekend where M and S where selling similar dinosaur decorations for £4.

BTW if anyone knows of where I can get neon coloured baubles at a cut price I'd be thrilled to know where.

I've been looking around with no luck yet. A real 80s dayglo vibe this year has really struck my imagination.

Or alternatively anything else in neon that I could put on a tree even if it's not a bauble.

Make neon pom-poms!