Show us your Christmas trees

[BookyGilly]

Long time lurker. Even longer Christmas lover. Here's my tree from last year. Please share photos and spread the joy of the season. I will never apologise for being a Christmas addict.

@IAm16StoneHalloween2024 Lametta is separate little silvers of tinsel, very vintage. We have it every year. This is our main living room tree. Warm white lights, and mostly vintage baubles. The fairy at the top was my grandmothers. DS calls it the creepy little doll 😂

Wow 😍I’m obsessed with this. Did you made it? Well done you!!

@Pottedshrimpy I just watched a video on how it’s put on. So when you take it off, you just have to throw it away? Or it keeps for another year? I’ve not seen it on anyone’s tree ever (child of the 70s and 80s so I’m not sure how it’s passed me by).

It looks so pretty on your tree, really vintage looking.

I pull it off the tree and store it in a box for the year after. I buy a top up every couple of years. It’s lovely so sparkly and subtle. My aunt had it on her tree when I was little and I thought it was the height of sophistication 😂

@IAm16StoneHalloween2024
Oops sorry I thought I’d posted the other pics .
Anyway here they are , hopefully .

Loving everyone’s trees . Just a few more weeks until I put mine up. I love Christmas.

Has lametta moved on?

I remember my nan having these very fine gold strips. But it seems now you can get gold, silver, rainbow metallic and pearly iridescent.

Which ones give the best effect?

I use silver @Lepetitmaman. Gold is softer, but my multicolour lights are a bit harsher coloured than the beautiful soft incandescent ones!

What beautiful trees, ooo I can't wait for December to get ours up. Here's ours 😊

Lamette is very fine silver strands and you put them a strand or two on the end of the branches-it kind of makes the whole tree sparkly. They come attached at one end and you pull them off to use.

There was the temptation as a child for my dsis and I to covertly throw hand fulls on the branches but I am a grown up now and do it more carefully.

@LePetitMaman I use lots of strands-maybe 10-12 ish and some very long ones. Literally 1000s. I have a big extension thing at the back with lots of places to plug in and start all of them at the back to hide the cords. Then the tree skirt hides the plugs on the floor.

I do wind around each individual branch and also around the trunk in places. I go the whole way in to the trunk with the lights wrapped around the branches-especially in the front middle. Use the longer strands of lights as I go down as much easier and the top so faffy the shorter ones easier.

I start at the top and get up on a ladder and go round-fiddly at the top as I do part then have to move ladder to other side to carry on. I go around-sort of think of it as layers as I go-always around though-not up and down.

When you take them off you reverse the process and start at the bottom.

Look forward to seeing your masterpiece!!

@MrsMitford3 What do you think? Silver? Gold? Coloured? I’m tempted to go for silver as I prefer silver jewellery to gold, but this might not be the best approach?!

My tree will have no theme if that makes a difference.

My tree also has no theme-a wonderful collection of ornaments starting from my childhood on up to now. The "angel" on top made by my now 28yo DS when he was in nursery.

I use silver lametta. It reflects the lights so beautifully.

@MrsMitford3 silver it is then!

@MrsMitford3 can I ask how long it takes you? It definitely looks worth it, your tree is beautiful.

I never realised people have more than one Christmas tree in their house - is this a recent thing? I don't think I know any of my friends who celebrate Christmas who have more than one, although some decorate their DCs rooms with lights etc. I don't think I remember it from childhood friends either. It always seemed to be one tree downstairs, and no decorations upstairs.

Obsessed with that big tree, absolutely gorgeous

Yes my now adult children always had their own small tree, they placed their school decorations and selected ones on their tree and could touch it as much as they wanted or reorganise it.

Love this thread. Absolutely love my tree can't wait to get it up again

My trees

Some beautiful trees 🎄

Absolutely loving seeing everyone's beautiful trees!
Can't wait to get mine up now! Here's a pic from last year, it's a miss-match and lots of vintage decs I've collected over the years. Probably giving 80s/quality street vibes,

This feels like a very cosy thread. I don't know why but the thought of multiple trees in a house, especially for DC, is lovely! Do people here put lights/decorate outside, or is there a dedicated thread for that There are always lots of multi coloured flashing lights on our road, I wonder if this year will be less due to cost, if they run them from the mains?

@gemdrop84 That's a beautiful tree. 🎄

@UpOnTheHousetop Fab tree. Like mine, it's not done by a committee or reflecting a theme. It's totally joyous, being happy when family baubles are put on it and remembering lovely memories. It's a mishmash of toilet roll Santa's and Harrod's baubles. But every bauble is cherished. 🎄

Last years tree…I’m going away this year so not putting any decorations up. I know I’ll miss it, I love my tree!

Wow so many lovely trees. Enjoyed looking at them all. I can’t wait to put us up in December.