What's on your Christmas tree?

[MummyDoIt]

Before children, my tree was a stylish, colour-coordinated affair with red and gold decorations. Now it has santas, penguins, robins, snowmen and teddies thrown into the mix. It has two hand-print decorations from when the DCs were babies, assorted baubles decorated by them and a set of ELC make-it-yourself decorations with our photos in the middle. Each year it looks tackier and gaudier and each year I love it more! I can't wait to see what they bring home at the end of term to add to it.

Our tree is a colletion of pesonalised ornamets. We have bought one for each child (3 of them now) for each year with their name and year (usually from www.personalpresents.co.uk). They have their own box of them and each year put them on the tree. The idea is that when they leave home, they take their box of 18 or so decorations with them. Each of their boxes also has some of their own handmade decorations in it - this year they have made a lot of hamabead ones.

Well we have the personal decoration-each-year stuff to take away too..... in a box. Put away.

Because this year we have a crawling / cruising eight month old and the two don't mix that well!

We have a B&Q decorated pop up tree this year, a ready decorated affair where the baubles etc are permanently attached. So no tinsel chewin for us!

DH (a techie type) swapped over the lights as apparenlty the ones in the box weren't as asafe as our old low voltage set but other than that- it actually looks quite good.

Mummydoit - ours was like that, last year DD (then 12 and a half) said it looked awful and was taking charge this year.

So this year, it's tasteful - silver and red, and simple white lights that don't twinkle.

All the hand made stuff from when they were tiny is back in the loft

but the tree does look nice

twinkly lights (usually go on the window - but I switched them round this year - and thankgoodnes I did the window "display" all went wrong and I've taken it all down ), and a vareity of tinsel and baubles.

I put the lights (and angel) on and then let DS1 (8) and DS2 (5) have free reign over it this year.

I actually think they've done quite a good job - I was expecting a much more haphzard affaird

oh - meant to say "I think they've done a good job (pics on profile)

Before dh and I had children we had a lovely tree with a pale blue/lilac and silver colour scheme....I'm lucky if I can spot one of those original baubles amongst the hand made, salt dough, glitter covered, toilet roll holder, reindeer sock decs that now adorn our beautiful tree!
This year I also made little tree stockings (which I'm so proud of because I sewed them myself!)
We also let them dd and ds (3 and 1) pick decs so this year, it was a wooden pink and blue snowflake for each - not too bad.
And yes we have tinsel and multicouloured lights and a star at top.

Anyone know how to make an angel for the tree top (out of basic crafty stuff?)
[fmile]

i have multicoloured twinkling lights, silver and gold bead chains, and silver snowflakes and bells, and pink and white small baubles- it looks lovely and not a strand of tinsel in sight (apart from the door frames and top of the fireplace wall)

mine has all white decorations, and white lights

I have clear lights, with a few gold and red baubles and about 15 candycanes scattered around it. Looks great.

DC are too young to cover it in salt dough and fuzzy felt stockings yet.

A green cover sorry! It's in the loft!

I can't tell you. In case you call SS.

Okaaaay, I may have stapled a small child to the top of the tree on the 43rd time they pulled off a carefully chosen hand carved reindeer from sustainable wood and chucked it across the room.

so my tree is mainly made up of small children and broken, but ethical reindeer.

Ours has a complete mish-mash of stuff on it, and that's the way I like it Every year I buy a couple of new decorations, and the kids choose a new one each, then every decoration that we have ever owned, and every garland of tinsel goes on it. I could give you the history of every single item ("Ah- that was the year I met DH! That was my first year in my own flat etc etc)

I hold no truck with designer trees- no soul! Christmas is about tacky paper Santas made from loo roll tubes, and dodgy old baubles. I helped my dad put up his tree this year (well, bullied him into it, really!)- he has decorations that my mum bought the year I was born, and others I remember from through the years- like old friends they are ..

We have a 7 foot tree that when in its stand, now touches the ceiling. it has a gold, glittery star on the top, and 200 white lights.

DH and I decorated it as the DCs - at 16 and 13 - are way too cool to get involved. We have a collection of different Father Christmases, lots of angels and stars, and then a load of decorations from places that we have been on holiday - Barbados, the US, Canada, Australia.

And then the spaces in between are filled with small bells or red or gold glass balls. Some of the larger ones are clear glass with glitter.

It is beautiful!

Ours isn't up yet, but my decorations are tastefully coordinated . But we have started a tradition where the DCs get to buy one decoration a year each (and will probably make more, although those may not survive from year to year) so that there will be a gradual slide towards randomness. Especially as this year DS wanted to buy decorations "for" me and DH too...

Based on SIL's tree, which DS decorated this year, DS's approach is to hang all the decorations on a single branch if that's physically possible. So we may have to have Words about that.

This year we brought a lovely new Christmas Tree and some new classy baubles ... well the baubles are in their boxes and its the kids stuff on the tree.

This year we brought a lovely new Christmas Tree and some new classy baubles ... well the baubles are in their boxes and its the kids stuff on the tree.

This year we brought a lovely new Christmas Tree and some new classy baubles ... well the baubles are in their boxes and its the kids stuff on the tree.

i hate stylish co-ordinated affairs - its not the spirit of xmas at all.

ihave bows, beads, that glittery string stuff, different assortment of baubles an angel anothre on top of tree, a fairy and crackers

It's green. It is real. It is small about 4ft [ish] and stumpy.

It has silver, white and black tinsel [thick] [the tinsel - not me]. It has a star on top and silver baubles/bobbles [sp]

We have lights across the top of the window. We have candles on the window ledge [common but nice], we have fairy lights across top of window.

We have lots of candles for night time [no children under 5].

We have little wooden things saying Merry Christmas, and Ho Ho Ho and we have cards on a card holder.

we have yet to put up the big things to hang across the ceiling.

My tree is far too massive for the size of the room, but hey ho. It is tastefully decorated in red, gold, white and green, probably for the last time ever.

lawe - do you want to swap - mine is stupidly small for the size of the room - was tempted to buy a bigger one this year............but then knowing my luck it would have ended up being too big for whereever I move to

We have 3ft tree on a table out of the way of fingers (9,12 and 21 months) covered in stuff the mindees have made/chosen over the years. very lovely it looks as well.

DS has inherited all the things he has made, and ddil has put them on her tree.

Now next year, when I will have retired, I am having a a BIG, Tasteful Beautifully decorated tree

we have coloured lights (like in the snowman film), red, green and gold decorations (baubles, candy canes, paper, and wooden stuff),beads and crackers, it is lovely in a mish mash, kid friendly way sort of way.

We have decorations ds and dn have made, some I made, and some from our travels so lots of memeories on it.