Hit me with your Christmas tree ‘themes’

[LadyCatStark]

We moved into a new build house this summer and are going to get all new Christmas decorations 😃. Our old house was more traditional and we had a red and white scandi theme but our new house is very white and grey and a more modern, bright theme would suit it. Would anyone be happy to share a picture of their tree from last year please?

No real theme in the living room here. Lots of sentimental ornaments from holidays or important occasions plus lots of red and a good few silver baubles. Red clashes with our living room, but it's Christmas, it has to be red.

Kitchen tree has loads of cheap baubles in bright colours that match the colours in the room.

I have my main tree and that is a free for all as I've collected baubles over the years. But I'm going to have a second tree and it's going to be gingerbread themed. I've got so many gingerbread themed decorations that they deserve there own tree. I'm also going to make some pom pom garlands to go with it.

Our theme is History of the Conyos in Felt.

With some stuff thrown in from holidays (cowbell from Andorra, robin from UK, one or two of Grannie's glass ornaments) and such things as a Playmobil policewoman DS insists on every year, festive bacon, peacock from Colombia.

No Disney, no tinsel, no plain round baubles, no colour theme. Definitely nothing to remind us of how shit 2020 has been (jokey bogroll, FC wearing a mask etc)

These sound gorgeous!

Our theme is mishmash memories - it’s an eclectic collection of holiday memories, children’s crafts, heritage ornaments, something to represent the dc’s and the remains of my last attempt, pre-children, to be coordinated. I love it but it’s definitely not stylish.

I’m tempted though to add another tree or three just to indulge my desire for a theme. I’ve wanted to make white salt dough ornaments, using cornflour, for ages but there’s hardly any room left so it seemed pointless.

I’m particularly loving the autumn, birds and Nordic wonderland themes. They sound amazing.

@Floralnomad I find my Swarovski stars just disappear into the tree. Do yours stand out? Is there a secret?

I've been thinking about Swarovski stars too - we have 4 or 5 and I've never hung them on the tree. This year I might get a silver or white tabletop tree or twig tree just for them, with white lights and some small crackled pale green and blue glass bauble I already have.

@thelegohooverer , we have about 30 of them and have never had them on a tree until last year and we bought them a Mr Crimbo prelit twig tree just to display them . It looked very effective .

@CloudyVanilla and @thesoundofthepolice I think this is exactly the sort of thing I’m looking for 🥰

@Longdistance I’m sure your tree looks lovely but I have a huuuuuuge phobia of birds 🙈

@LadyCatStark Matalan for decorations they have some beautiful things in this sort if colour scheme. I'm going for some extra bits this year

Mine is a traditional green tree and I have gold decorations. The dc have their own with animal and felt and handmade stuff.

For your new home blush colours might work really well. If you are on the Mrs Hinch Facebook threads there are nice ideas.

@LadyCatStark I'd definitely recommend Next or B&M as they have a few bauble packs to base it off :)

The John Lewis Renaissance collection also has a good selection of the more pastel colours, and the Range has a theme called Scandi Lodge on their website that is full of cute wooden stuff. God I need to stop decoration shopping now

@thesoundofthepolice thank you for posting this photo. I've gone for these colours this year and was getting a bit worried they are not Christmassy enough but after seeing your tree I'm glad I picked them, it looks lovely.

I used to replace my decorations every few years but then I raised how terrible that is for the environment. So now I go for quality over quantity.

My tree is prelit AND it rotates. It is a thing of beauty and as it rotates I get to buy lots of glorious baubles. I buy traditional glass vintage baubles and also new novelty baubles. I pay anything from £3 to £20 each and every single one has something special or unique about it. This years finds up to now are Santa riding a sea turtle, a parrot pirate and a chameleon. I've also got vintage robots, dinosaurs, slutty alligators and all manner of cats and dogs. And the normal more typical Santa and glass balls. The rotating tree means that we spend a Lot of time playing " find the -" and every week I mix them up a bit and change them and. We all have our own favourites and as the kids are moving out they take their baubles to start their own collection. Paper chase have some wonderful novelty baubles in and I have 9 on my wish list. Am attaching pictures of slutty gator, pirate parrot and Santa on a sea turtle

@Jakobabear thank you. I just use things I like rather than try too hard to stick to themes/trends.
Anything on a Christmas tree becomes Christmassy in my opinion

My theme is "all the stuff we've bought over the years"

Tbh the base is gold....but yeah,it looks more like Christmas threw up on it and I wouldn't have it any other way.

@Floralnomad and @ShaunaTheSheep that sounds lovely. They really get lost on my tree. I might look at getting something to display them on.

Coloured lights and totally random ornaments, stuff we've bought on holiday, kids have made, kids have chosen. I love it. Certainly wouldn't win any style awards though.

I’m going with an ocean theme this year as I’ve moved to the seaside. Got some love bits from Vondels, they do the most fun and quirky decorations and I’ve got some natural shell decorations from this place - www.etsy.com/uk/listing/880819376/sustainable-cockle-shell-tree