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Next week for sure. Mine is all white lights, straw garland (it looks like straw, got it 20 years ago and can't ever find it again) and mostly victorian ornaments, dolls and some special angels, old fashioned santas, etc. I'll post this years pic after it's up. My old tree is in the earlier forum.

It will be a happy christmas for us this year.

sorry Pen and Connie, hope you get a wonderful holiday surprise.

Both of mine are up. One is covered with white sand dollars hanging from silver ribbons and silver ornaments. I use white lights. The other is is with white lights and every kind of ornament in the world--some my son made when he was little, some from travels, some from children I taught in school.

It takes me all day long to put the trees up.

I do enjoy looking at them late at night when everyone has gone to bed and all the other lights are turn off and I am usually listening to Christmas Island. (Wish JB would do another Christmas CD)

ContinentalDrifterIII wrote:My wife, lil salty, and I get an ornament on all of our vacations and favorite places. My favorite is from Key West, its the Southern Most Point landmark. I also picked up a cool one from Margaritaville Orlando earlier this year. Its a couple dolphins on a sleigh that says Margaritaville. Its fun because when we are decorating our tree we have so many memories and good times to think of which makes our tree even more special!

That's what we do too, and we put the year of the vacation on the bottom of the ornament. Always lots of great memories when we're decorating the tree.

Which by the way, will be today. We now always put it up on November 25th ... the anniversary of the day my mother-in-law passed away, because SHE WAS ALL ABOUT CHRISTMAS!

I am gonna find out this week if my family are visiting at all before christmas - only reason I will put one up is if the kids are coming - they think there is something wrong if people dont have a tree up

balcony girls wrote:

lilsalty wrote:

freaky4tiki wrote:we've got lots of ornaments the kids have made and then some that have been given to me by my mother that are about 70 years old. then we have some that Mr Freaky and I have collected. not a themed tree at all! we usually decorate the tree on a Friday night and drink a bottle of champagne-- then put the cork on the tree

Great idea! We always pop some bubbly...but I like the idea of converting the cork into a "corkament."

. .that IS a great idea . . .! !

. .only in my case. . .it'll be a capament . . just write the year on the back of a Corona cap . .. ! !

. .OR . . .just keep them all, put them in a little bag . . and mark it with the year . . ! ! . . ." Yep . . 2007 was a 6 capament year . . . ! ! "

. .love it . . ! !

you could take a hammer and a nail and put a little hole in the cap then string 'em up. knot on each side of the cap so you won't have them all crammed in one spot. that actually sounds pretty cute! stick some fake lime slices on there too!

Baaaa Humbug,
Christmas is a great big pain.
NO, the tree is not up and no theme when it is.
NO, the lights are not up but i am hiding in my office cause i am suppose to be getting them out now.
Last year we escaped on the 27th to Mexico for 10 days but not this year. It may be a long one.
Did i say ba humbug?




lol

Did it today...
Most of the ornaments are from vacations... Antigua, KW, and New Orleans etc... a few are related to the kids, and we have white lights.

Miss the days of real tree, but fake is so much easier...

lilsalty wrote:

freaky4tiki wrote:we've got lots of ornaments the kids have made and then some that have been given to me by my mother that are about 70 years old. then we have some that Mr Freaky and I have collected. not a themed tree at all! we usually decorate the tree on a Friday night and drink a bottle of champagne-- then put the cork on the tree

Great idea! We always pop some bubbly...but I like the idea of converting the cork into a "corkament."

This years corkament will come from one of my favorites - a Laurent-Perrier Brut Rose! I love that idea!

Our live tree won't go up until Christmas eve! We take our time putting up decorations, a little at a time during Advent! By Christmas eve everything is in place and after Mass we decorate the tree. It makes the week between Christmas and New Years special, and I hate to see trees on the sidewalk the day after Christmas because they are already tired of the holiday! My little way of decommercializing Christmas!

well, all the boxes are out of the attic. Now to review the lights and see if i can stall some more!!

Nope! Not yet. We will get the tree in December.

We make an event of it. Tom takes the afternoon off work and we go to a tree farm on a lake. One time while we were there an Eagle flew over.

It is a pretty place and we wander around in the snow (hopefully) until we find the one that will fit in the living room and Tom cuts it and we carry it back (or they have a hay wagon that will take it back to the parking lot for you) We usually don't wait for the wagon

I usually buy a big wreath for the garage door too. It is a fun day for us and I look forward to it every year! Oh and hot chocolate after!

Not up yet.
It'll be my wife's call as to whether we get one or not this year.
Either way will be fine with me.

Our's went up Wednesday afternoon. We both always have a half day off from work, so its kind of a tradition. We're usually not at our house much on Thanksgiving day, so the tree is waiting on us the day after Thanksgiving when we get home from shopping and chill out.

The tree is not up yet... we do a real tree so we are waiting till next weekend.. but..

there are 10,000+ lights outside and the rest of the insude decorations are about 99% done. The hook is still in the ceiling from the tree last year (don't know if you remember but the tree fell twice last year) so the tree will be tied up before anything goes on it this year

Our tree doesn't have a theme.. just a mish mash of ornamenst we love. We did start a tradition a few year ago of getting a photo ornamment with the year and putting a cute picture of us in it (I think this years will be a wedding photo)

Yep! Put the tree up on Saturday, and decorated outside on Sunday.

The tree is shining bright with 6 new strings of 100 colored C6 LED lights! First time for new ones in 16 years... I was down to 3 strings of the old ones, which didn't quite cut it.

The theme is potpourri... there are themed sections, or a mom section anyway! Lots of kids ornaments, home-made and bought, ornaments that were mine from kindergarten and first grade.

There are lots of fun parts... singing along with the Christmas music on the cd player, finding the star and seeing whose year it is to get to put it atop the tree (on a post-it on the package), the fight to find and hang the "magic" Hallmark postal bear (long story), the memories each ornament kindles, and the ooh's and ahh's over some of the less remembered cool ones, the giggles at the older photo ornaments, and having enthusiastic little helpers when it was my job for years. It seems like it will be a chore until we drag out the first box... and it turns immediately into a heartwarming adventure!

But the best part is sitting in the quiet, at night, when it's the only light in the house, and looking at every little inch, every inperfection, every shiny thing, and absorbing the Christmas spirit that glows from it. All is calm, all is bright...

STL PARROTHEAD wrote:draggin it up out of the basement today.........I think...

well, it's up from the basement.................that's all

We put ours up the day after Thanksgiving.

Peggy was at work....Elena and I surprised her by putting it up.
She got home, I went to work. Peggy & Elena surprised me by decorating it!

Put up my trees and decorations before Thanksgiving so that the grandbaby could see all of it. She just stood in front of our big tree and stared for a LONG time....I think she was enchanted !
I have an all-white tree in one front bedroom and a girly-pink tree (for grandbaby girl) in the bedroom she sleeps in.

My Buffett tree that I usually put in the living room is going to Memphis. My daughter-in-law's architectural firm has a cubicle-decorating contest (the prize is $300 !!!) every year and she wanted to use my tree. It has all kinds of Buffett-related ornaments and leis and blue and green lights, etc. She is going to wear a grass skirt and coconut bra over her shirt (she's 5 months preggers, it'll be cute !!) and have a froofroo umbrelled drink for the judge ! I sure will miss that tree but it'll go to good use !

It was raining all weekend and our Christmas stuff is in an outside shed, soooo I'll be clearing out a place today and bringing in the boxes tomorrow (after the ground has dried out a bit).

As many of you have said, our ornaments are collected from all over as well as things the kids have made. I love all the memories that can be held on a Christmas tree.
But this year I think we'll drink some champaigne while decorating...that's a super idea.

Is this true?? Here's what our neighbor said about getting freshly cut trees this year: since it's been so mild in the northeast, real trees will not last as long this year, even if they're watered regularly. Is this scientifically accurate? We were thinking about getting ours the 1st, but we don't want it to be dead by Christmas...otherwise, we're thinking of putting it up the 8th! I like to enjoy the tree lights for as long as possible!!