I'll show you mine if you show me yours....

If I have a tree, it is always a real, rather than artificial one. Last year, we miscalculated and ended up with something rather taller than we had planned; it was quite hard to find a place to put it. This year we shall not be having a tree, partly because of additions in the main room of the house, such as a high chair, bouncer chair and play mat that take up quite a lot of room (and there is nowhere to store them), plus a rocking chair that I am trying to find time to strip and wax for absentdaughter. We are not planning any social occasions chez nous so it would probably be a bit silly to have a tree. In addition and most importantly, we have been hand-rearing an abandoned kitten and that is probably one step too far for a Christmas tree.

Number - its probably because the pictures are all taken on the slant. and anyway all are equally unique and beautiful.

All these lovely trees, but why can`t there be another listing to port like mine? I don`t like being exclusive!

glass I love your friends window display!

Here's mine although not quite on the same scale as all yours! ?

Ok jings I did laugh. That's the kind of thing my DD would enjoy pointing out too. Anyway I can't see it, but what's wrong with a little spider happy to make her home chez vous. Gorgeous fairy too, as indeed are all the other trees and fairies.

She's on the arm of the chair, acclimatising before the dizzy heights of the tree. She often has a touch of vertigo and falls off unless her tinsel is tied on properly.

Tell her rubbish it's just fairy dust gathering to fall.heres my 40 year old fairy and contrary to the song we love her.

Can't make a spider homeless at Christmas

My DD has just told me you can see a cobweb in the corner in the picture of my fairy.

I am mortified. I didn't see it.

Here's mine, decorated by my GDs. They do the othe grandma's tree too, but they like doing mine best "because you like it and she always changes it when we've gone home"! I have some beautiful Svarovski baubles, stars and snowflakes, which my mother brought from Austria over several years, and I always hang those at the top, just in case, otherwise it's all their own work.

When I was small, I remember us having real candles on the artificial tree, gives me the shudders now!
My MIL had the best idea about the tree, she`d put it away in January, still trimmed up, with a large plastic bag over it, then come the following Christmas, off came the bag and voila!

Lovely trees, all very festive, it's cheering me up no end.

I was thinking that my tree is looking a bit past its best and wondering if I should go back to a real one although it would have to be small.
The idea of real candles would give me the heebie jeebies too.

Petra Low energy light bulbs mess up a lot of the colour of other lights and colours.

This year I have gone with the vintage theme. I love the tree! The skirt is one I crocheted.

I don't know if this is going to work, lol. And why don't the red lights look red?

at at at??? I must make the screen size larger when I write post so I can read it more easily.

Ours!

My tree.

Nellie, that looks like a perfect challenge to a determined infant! Good luck with that!

glassortwo Thats why I have my tree in the fruit cage.

My friends wedding shop Christmas window.

number all the best trees have a certain lean... its tree character. I would take a photo of the one in our family room it has a lean but the little one repeatedly strips the lower branches and it look like we are just dressing it, the big tree in the living room isn't bothered with

Here is my tree at at at last.
It is complete with a rug rat guard made from bits of my fruit cage and some cardboard to prevent 8mnth old DGS from wrecking it.

Or at least to provide a barrier to slow him down in his attempts.

Like iron age earth works.

My fairy is starting to look a bit worse for wear. She must be about 46 now !