whats on your tree?

[{sarah}]

Our tree is the most mis-matched ecclectic looking tree you've ever seen ROFL. Most of the stuff we have doesn't match at all. We have tinsel - don't do lights as they are a fire hazard and decorations that I've brought and ones the kids have made at school. This year we will be adding to the odd-ness by including the little cross stitched stockings I have done. I see the trees they have in Myer and how it is all co-ordinated and it all matches a theme, and I would love a tree that looked like that, but I love how our tree looks. eventually I would like all the ornaments to be handmade so that i dont have to buy cheap imported from China crap.

I bet ours can rival yours Trillian! We have things Zander has made at preschool, some very expensive glass balls (not on this year because of the J terror), plastic balls, sequined fabric stars, plastic Dora & Sesame St characters & a whole bunch of other stuff. We also have tinsel (purple & red this year!) and lights which are already attached to the tree.

My mum's tree is awesome, it used to be eclectic like ours but now she has got just birds with massive feather tails & these sparkly feather things. It looks AWESOME!

[beckoes]

Only my second xmas in Aus so dont have much stuff, Red and silver this year. Got some nice glass balls etc, coloured lights, a few special little bits. not keen on tinsell either, but have a bit. And a beautiful glass angel for the top! Its going up in a few days...so excited!

[Glamourcide]

DH is dragging ours out of the shed tomorrow I can't wait!
I wish we could go nutso with fairy lights, but with DD1 and her fiddle fingers I'm afraid it could be dangerous, so I just go crazy with tinsel instead. Purple, blue and silver seem to by my colours, I've done it that way three years in a row. We put up purple, blue and silver baubles as well as tinsel last year but between DD1 and the new puppy, they all got torn off and destroyed so I don't know if I'll worry about it this year.
We'll need a new star for the top of the tree, too - there has to be a huge, sparkly star. Ours got mangled last year when DD1 decided it was time for the tree to come down lol...
Can't wait until the kids are old enough to enjoy it without destroying it!

[Daydream Believer]

I cant find my box of decorations at the moment so all ours has is purple tinsel & 2 decorations that DD got last year.

None of our decorations match either, every year I buy a new one for the family & have just started buying one for DD. For a few year we were doing nibbles at our place Christmas eve & I asked everyone to bring a decoration for the tree. So all of these have a little labl on them with who bought them & the year on it

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Some may take this as proof of a damaged mind, but here's my tree.

Put up on the Saturday before December (so it up now!)

100 fairy lights and gold baubles atm. The baubles range in size so the big baubles are on the bottom and the small at the top. Even DS commented on the size issue this year. Baubles are all plastic so DS can lie under the tree and bat them (he's really a cat in disguise).

Then, from 1st-24th December, we have an Advent Bible reading. After this we say a prayer and DS can hang a small star on the tree wherever he wants. Every Sunday after Church we hang a big star on (and these are in order!) so there are four big stars to go on somewhere too. Golden Angel goes on the top after the Christmas Eve/Christingle service: should be Midnight Mass but we're not doing that atm!

There are a few soft toys that come out for December, but the tree is our only Christmas decoration. I like to celebrate Christmas all year long, like Ebenezer Scrooge (at the end of the book) or akin to "far away across the sea/in sunny Italy/there's a quaint little town/not a clock has been wound/for over a century./ They don't know the date or year/and don't really seem to care/and this is the reason/the Christmas season/is celebrated all year." So I don't go in for big Christmas stuff, but I do like to see a few lights and a bit of green at this bleak time of the year. There's a reason most people have a festival involving putting loads of lights on in December and it's a Northern Hemisphere reason!