What will be your christmas aesthetic this year?

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I dont think i want to go full on 90s this year

I quite like this gold and brown look 🤔

Please, do not judge me for thinking about this in april xoxo

I do this, my son is 4 and like I bought a reindeer ornament last year as he was obsessed with reindeers and slept with his reindeer cuddly toy every night and made me read a reindeer book for months 😂.

My plan is to buy an ornament with him every year until he's to cool to bother 😂 i love making memories with him especially for christmas.

After years of charity shop and boot fair merry mismatches, I forked out on some jewel tone glass baubles from John Lewis last year, and some hand crafted wooden mushrooms, plus an aged gold Habitat star and gold leds. That investment is locked in for a few seasons to come! I fully support OP in posting about it in late April - it's the Christmas forum folks!

Same as always, green, red, gold and silver on the main tree. Very traditional baubles.

But I’m hoping I’ll be able to trust my youngest a bit more and have our nature tree out in the hall too. That’s all nature inspired but wintery like owls, foxes, icy foliage.

It’s not very good for the planet to buy cheap new decs every year 😢

We’ll be using the same ones we use every year, including some that the DCs made as children (they’re young adults now), and some that my mum made (she died quite a long time ago). I think Christmas is more about traditions than aesthetics. Depends how much time you spend on Instagram though I guess.

I can’t help but think it’s no wonder the world in drowning in rubbish and landfill when people buy new Christmas decorations for a theme every year. I genuinely don’t mean to be a killjoy but it really is worth thinking about. Consumerism really has reached epic levels.

We always have two trees, a nicely decorated one in our bay window and then a children’s tree in the kitchen.

Our nicely decorated one is red and white with eclectic baubles we collect. Our tradition is going to London every year to see the lights and get a new decoration or two from Liberty. We also added Mary Anning last year from the Natural History Museum!

The children’s tree is mostly felted animals wearing strange outfits with some Disney ones mixed in for good measure.

I have unusual decorations but a classic colour scheme of red, white and green.

Had the same Christmas decorations for the past 20 years..... might add a few new ones but always have the same decorations ❤️

I love the sound of your nature tree. Do you have a picture of it that you can share?

I’m aiming to have a good sort through all the decorations in September as we’ve were given boxes full last year. Sell what I don’t want and buy a decent fake tree with the money. I’m planning on keeping two or three colour themes

What do you do with last year’s decorations?

I do " throw my 30 year old decorations at the tree and hope they stick " aesthetic.

Same as the last couple of years. Separate all the children’s school made and other sentimental ones and put on first, then fill in the gaps with red, gold and green. Think I’ve settled on traditional and sentimental.

Same as every year - sticking two fingers up to Mies van der Rohe and his "less is more" nonsense. Baubles-wise, we've got lucky cats, Mexican floral skulls, a couple of Eiffel Towers, a hermit crab, sweeties, birds, a spotted ray, a jewelled wasp, nutcracker soldiers, toadstools, a hedgehog, a puffin, a gherkin, some others I can't remember, plus a load of randomly coloured round/oval ones. Anything goes.

Why the fuck you on the Christmas board then?

OP, I'm probably not going to buy new decorations but I've moved somewhere very woodlandy so I may make some nice rustic ones with things I forage.

I won't be buying any new bauble sets this year - I filled the tree with them last year. But like a PP, I will be knitting. I told my brother, this year, 'I'm going to knit the s**t out of Christmas!'
Last year I knitted everyone a personnalised chocolate orange cover. This year it's knitted chocolate tub (Roses, Celebrations, etc.) covers. I have already knttied a snowman chocolate or sweetie figure with basket and a snowman bottle cover (Both patterns from Etsy.). I have so many more patterns lined up that I'm itching to knit! I have to finish knitting my brothers birthday present first, and maybe a bit of decor for Auntum.

No need to swear, I just read the post, not what board it was on. Christ, calm down

I think i remember you @Openmouthinsertfood - I remember that you were knitting choc orange covers 🥰

How were they recieved, such a lovely idea - as is chocolate box covers

Oh that will be lovely - rustic christmas, I picture somewhere with a lovely fire and warm rugs on the floor 🥰

sticking two fingers up to Mies van der Rohe and his "less is more" nonsense

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Nothing wrong with filling up the tree and the living room

We only buy one or two new baubles a year. We've got 25+ years of decorations, so we can usually make it vaguely themed, without buying much new.

Last year it was all ribbons and bows in shades of red, white and gold, a year before it was peacock colours, before that, we had a rainbow/jewel tone theme... but as I say, we buy very little, but have accumulated much over the years.

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Eclectic Scandi-rustic collected over the last 27 years - love looking through the memories.

Well the ones that dd/dcat hasn't damaged, I give away 🙈

You've got plenty of time before next Christmas, child.

It isn't for another <<checks notes>> eight months.