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What goes on your tree?

48 replies

lipstickwoman · 24/11/2022 15:08

Other than baubles and lights?

Beads? Tinsel? Anything or nothing?

I'm old enough to have done both in the past but now not sure

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justasking111 · 24/11/2022 22:51

Ours is a mish mash of colour and love created over the decades. Lights, décor, tinsel.

DIL main tree designer, colour schemed in the sitting room. In the playroom DS and his kids go wild with their tree, it's very colourful.

Margo34 · 24/11/2022 22:52

Lots of lights! And hanging things (none of them explicitly Christmas tree decorations) that my DH and I bought in each country we have visited on holiday/travelling to. Over the years the tree has become fuller and fuller with our hanging treasures and I love reminiscing about when and where we bought each decoration every December!! It makes me smile and brings back happy travel memories 😍

TheFormidableMrsC · 24/11/2022 22:57

My tree is a work of art, the "tree of chaos" we like to call it. I pick up whatever random things I can find throughout the year. It's also quite rude 🙂

MrsElf · 25/11/2022 00:54

Everything. I now have so many birds nests it is getting hard to squeeze them all in. Two trees up at the moment are mostly;

baubles, easter chicks, mini mushrooms on wire
with no beads or tinsel as tree is quite a sparkly white one

baubles, tinsel & candy canes

They are still set up as birthday trees, so this weekend they will get redecorated. Lots of ancient and homemade bits, but having several trees and SO many decorations means they usually each end up using a different colour scheme if I think about it. We have tinsel and beads and lammetta, sometimes all together. I avoided tinsel for a few years, but the last 5 years have done more and more, although mostly round the trunk before the lights go on as pp. Extra foliage and branches, sometimes sprayed with glitter or plasticote or flocking. Feathers and an old feather boa. Paper chains. I like to hang up the smallest gifts, including the dogs’ rawhide candy canes and toys. Necklaces and bracelets work well, and I’ve got some lace earrings that I hang up. The green toy soldier set got wired on one year, I was quite pleased with that, also small air fix models have looked good. (They were all to scale, and I do love to have little scenes, which is tricky when your fluffy rabbit is half the size of kevin... honestly, I feel this is a scandalously overlooked detail in most Christmas collections.) Toy cars with bottle brush trees tied on. Crackers, party poppers and sweets. I really really want a bit of taxidermy in there, maybe a weasel...

The outside trees are just lights and baubles. The big houseplants are lights, tiny baubles, and that really thin wire-y tinsel. This year I’ve got some sequin garlands with lights in. A few schliech animals, fake snow, mini mushrooms and clip on birds go in and around them. So far haven’t found a gonk/gnome thing I like, but there’s bound to be one out there!

MrsElf · 25/11/2022 00:59

Oooo ooo oooo
How could I forget?! The tiny baby socks! (With quality streets inside, naturally.)

inappropriateraspberry · 25/11/2022 04:27

Never tinsel - hate the stuff! Ugly, bad for the environment.
2 main trees - Baubles, clear glass (and plastic) ornaments that catch the light, a few odd, random ornaments like the glass sprinkle doughnut! Sometimes strings of gold or silver beads.

Small tree - wooden nativity ornaments

Kids trees - whatever they want!
Plus garlands in hallway etc with more beads and baubles.

mathanxiety · 25/11/2022 04:40

It's a mish mash...
Strings of gold beads
Coloured lights
Straw star on top
Lots of Scandinavian straw angels and various other angels
Little tomten figures
Lots of baubles in several colours
Lots of ornaments the DCs made in school when they were small
A few Belleek bell ornaments
Some small disco ball ornaments that go deep into the tree and reflect the lights

christmasbaublesandtinseltits · 25/11/2022 05:20

Absolutely everything. It's the tackiest Christmas tree this side of the North Pole!

GrumpyPanda · 25/11/2022 06:00

We've always done live candles rather than artificial lights so that kind of determines what goes around. Transparent glass baubles, straw stars, honey coloured candles set in clip-on holders. Assorted individual odds and ends. A large metal Star of Bethlehem to go on the very top. A small flock of ice birds from the Erzgebirge mountains in Saxony. And somewhat incongruously, several handmade fishes - glitter and beads on velvet, each with its own dominant colour - that I picked up working in Tbilisi Georgia years ago.

lollipoprainbow · 25/11/2022 06:26

Everything !! There isn't a bare branch in sight. So many decorations collected over the years, love all the kitsch ones like rainbows, robots, popcorn, burgers, etc. we have a tiny teddy at the top instead of an angel but we also have a pic of my late sister who loved Christmas at the top also. All topped off with loads of warm white lights.

lovelilies · 25/11/2022 06:31

Everything here too

Slimjimtobe · 25/11/2022 06:46

Real tree with white lights and white baubles (lace, sparkly, Pearl, white gisela graham fairy
some gold tree decorations - kids favourite animals and some we’ve bought on holiday)
min kids room a silly mutlicolour tree with all their handmade and funny baubles

BewareTheBeardedDragon · 25/11/2022 08:03

Tinsel - I need the sparkle it adds and can't be doing with constant unwrapping of stray lametta strands from around the hoover brush.

Cornelious · 25/11/2022 08:04

Every years different with a different colour theme. This year we've got simple and elegant- lots of white lights, then a mix of red/ silver/ bronze/ gold baubles and then a big tree topper.

BewareTheBeardedDragon · 25/11/2022 08:05

Btw - I'm assuming by 'baubles' you mean all hanging decorations? If not - we have huge amounts of ones collected and made over years . I generally favour gold/silver/red/green when buying any new ones so there is a vague sense of coordination but not matchy matchy. I personally hate a perfectly coordinated tree.

Hobbesmanc · 25/11/2022 08:31

I love unpacking the decs every year. It's like seeing old friends. I've decorations that were my mums and grandmas. It's definitely a mush mash

I like to buy a couple of new ones every year and main,y stick to more traditional ones in reds and golds and greens. But it's not a themed tree lol

We do have a second tree in the conservatory which is a fairly recent tradition. That's a little more restrained.

RinklyRomaine · 25/11/2022 09:49

Small tree in the lounge gets bells, baubles and tartan ribbons in red and green. The big tree in the kitchen has all sorts of mess on it. Iridescent snowflakes and beads, gold, bronze, white, green glass or wooden baubles, a selection of Russian eggs I bought 15 yrs ago in Moscow, lots of icicle decs, bits of ribbon bows, white lights, but no tinsel, I hate it. DD has a white tree covered in twee pink shite in her room. The rest of the house is a mush of gingerbread men, santas, stags and greenery dragged in from the garden. Not til December though.

Stompythedinosaur · 25/11/2022 15:49

We have pompom garlands in red and white currently.

timtam23 · 26/11/2022 01:06

Mine is crowded and a bit chaotic but I love it and look forward to it so much. Tinsel, but it has to be silver. Then loads of very eclectic baubles, lots of them knitted or felt ones made by me, some lovely china and glass ones, some my mum bought for the DCs which have their names on, others with special memories which I bought while travelling in various countries abroad. Anything the DCs have ever made as decorations including the clothespeg angel made by DS1 when he was in reception, this has pride of place on the top branch. A vintage Fisher Price Santa train around the bottom of the tree. Coloured lights as near to the old-style Christmas lights as possible. And loads of chocolate baubles. Last year I had to get my very old small tree down from the loft as the number of baubles on the big tree was getting ridiculous (both trees are artificial). We took.on quite a lot of decorations from DH's mum after she died, I couldn't bear to throw away the decorations DH's siblings had made as children so we now have them too! DH tolerates the whole thing but doesn't really understand why I get so much pleasure from the trees

RiverSkater · 26/11/2022 12:04

Baubles, lights, skinny tinsel. Lights mixture of retro and modern looking LED.

Every year we each buy a new bauble for the tree and they are all different, some were my parents. We even made a trip to Liberty once after seeing their Christmas shop on tv but it was disappointing !! I've found better in TKMax or the local garden centre.

We even have my parents old 60s fairy. Lots of handmade baubles too.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 26/11/2022 15:01

I throw everything and more at ours. I buy at least a couple of baubles every year - this year I've got William Shakespeare, some crazy birds and an owl to add to the mayhem. Tinsel. Beads. Everything. But no coloured lights because they are the Decorations of Beelzebub.

TommyShelby · 26/11/2022 16:16

Far too much to explain what goes on the tree - easier to show you!

Its not curated and coordinated… it’s just chucked on and hope for the best, but I love it!

What goes on your tree?
Userno36367363 · 26/11/2022 16:31

Lights, baubles, bows and a few other things in our colour theme. No tinsel as I can never get it to sit right and look or right, no beads. I have a large bow at the top of the tree underneath our angel tree topper. I also have light up presents under my tree as gifts don't come out til last minute here - kids have sen and it's not worth the risk 😅

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