Show me your Christmas trees!

[butterfly 17]

Here is the fireplace mantle.

 

[butterfly 17]

A close up of my village, ha, ha.

 

[ang3199]

Tree with flash. It has pink, green, and blue bulbs but you can''t really tell.

 

[ang3199]

Here it is with no flash so you can see the pretty lights!

 

[pennquaker09]

So, I have to admit, that I get lazy and after about the 2nd hour, I just started throwing stuff on on free branch I could find. I think I started at 2 and when I finished it was almost 7.

 

[pennquaker09]

Okay, so I'm having issues getting them the right size for PS. This is the first time I've uploaded photos using Vista.

 

[somethingshiny]

Penn~

I do a tree very similar to that! I LOVE it!!

 

[pennquaker09]

I hope this is better.

 

[pennquaker09]

And a close up.

 

[Mara]

here''s our upstairs family room tree, we put it up this wkd. 6.5" noble fir with all my more unique ornaments on it. and portia looking super bored in front of it. hehee.

 

[Mara]

some ornaments on our family room tree before putting them on. i have a lot of balls, who knew. my taste gravitates towards red, gold, silver and purple on our upstairs fam room tree. but i also have some fun whimsical ornaments that i get at the nutcracker every year (one ornament each year) and also i love PB ornaments and pier 1/cost plus.

 

[Mara]

and another of our downstairs tree, i got this one at a good angle! greg was outside that day putting up our outside lights as well, you can see them strewn around!

 

[Mara]

and one of our upstairs flat areas where i have some festive decor.

 

[bebe]

Hudson, I feel your pain of losing precious ornaments. I lost some a few years ago.
I buy many, way too many though. Last year I bought 6 boxes (4 in ea. box) of Waterford
colored round balls. Hanging them on my tree, I promptly dropped 5! I bought them at an outlet store, so I''ll probably never see them again!

This is my table in my formal living. It''s a charger/bowl on an iron stand, gold wreath around the bowl and I threw the ornaments in the bowl. I just got fed up with trying to
figure out what to do, but I ended up liking it.

 

[poshpepper]

Oh I just love all of the Christmas trees!!!! I want to get mine up so badly... hopefully this weekend!

Thanks to everyone who has shared!

 

[Matata]

Date: 12/5/2007 10:38:50 AM
Author: Mara
i have a lot of balls, who knew.

LOLLLLLLLLLL, LOL, LOL, ROFLMAO. I cannot, I repeat, I CANNOT believe, you opened this door and did not expect me (or several other quirky & irreverent members, you all know who you are) to step thru it. Whaddya mean who knew? We all know you have more balls than most of us

omg, I have tears running down my face. the secret is out about Mara''s balls (I bet they''re platinum).

 

[OUpearlgirl]

My two tree''s didn''t photograph well

Keep in mind I''m a poor college student, so I can''t afford to have the most beautiful tree! Here is our big one...

 

[OUpearlgirl]

This is my tiny tree.. The lights just burnt out! (i hate pre-lit Christmas trees!!)

 

[OUpearlgirl]

And finally, my mom just e-mailed me a picture of our stockings at home! I can''t wait to see our house after finals are done!! The green stocking is for my dad and the red ones are for my mom and 3 sisters. She bought green ones (about 10 years ago when she bought these) for our husbands someday!!

 

[butterfly 17]

Date: 12/5/2007 11:36:42 PM
Author: OUpeargirl
And finally, my mom just e-mailed me a picture of our stockings at home! I can''t wait to see our house after finals are done!! The green stocking is for my dad and the red ones are for my mom and 3 sisters. She bought green ones (about 10 years ago when she bought these) for our husbands someday!!

I absolutely love your mantle. The blue on the walls is so pretty. It''s just looks like home to me.

 

[butterfly 17]

Date: 12/6/2007 12:35:19 AM
Author: SanDiegoLady

BUTTERFLY! HOW did you mount your television? OMG I SOOOO desperately want to mount ours above our fireplace. Do you have solid beams/studs behind it? Its driving me nuts! lol

*btw... I love your tree topper, its just lovely.

Your going to laugh, but it came with the house. A little bonus from the sellers. WE still can''t figure out what to do with the wires and I don''t want to make any holes in the wall to hide them.

When we repainted the room (it''s supposed to be BM cappucino, but it looks pinker to me) we tried so hard to remove it from the mounting and we had no idea how.

It drove us crazy for three days and finally we gave up and just painted around the brackets.

If we sell the house, we are leaving the TV!!lol

 

[steph72276]

Here is ours!

 

[Skippy123]

Ahhh Steph, Andrew looks so cute next to the tree! Love the tree and your cute little guy in his holiday pj's! hehee

 

[steph72276]

Thanks, Skip! He picked those out yesterday at the mall....I tried to talk him out of them b/c they are long sleeves and it is in the 80s here, but he had to have them

 

[OUpearlgirl]

Date: 12/6/2007 12:43:02 AM
Author: SanDiegoLady

Date: 12/5/2007 11:36:42 PM

Author: OUpeargirl

And finally, my mom just e-mailed me a picture of our stockings at home! I can''t wait to see our house after finals are done!! The green stocking is for my dad and the red ones are for my mom and 3 sisters. She bought green ones (about 10 years ago when she bought these) for our husbands someday!!

OUpeargirl OMS! I LOOOOVE THAT! Its so lovely and traditional, where is this house? I mean, not the specific address. Those built ins are simply to die for. Stunning. I love it.

Aw thank you so much! It''s smack dab in the middle of Dallas and Fort Worth. I truly love my parent''s house. I''m so sad they are selling it, but a 5 bedroom house is too big now that all of the kids have moved out!

 

[Mara]

steph...i love your pretty tree and your cutie son, that is an awesome picture!! i love his little striped pants.

 

[somethingshiny]

Yay for all the new pics! I love the mantle displays.

Butterfly~ That is such a unique and pretty topper!
Steph~ Great pic with your little guy!
OUpeargirl~ Love the pearly tree!
Mara~ Nice balls!
Bebe~ Love the table display!

I love this thread!!!!

 

[steph72276]

Thanks Mara and SomethingShiny for the compliments on Andrew....I was trying to take the tree by itself and he jumped in the picture! He love to have his pic taken!

 

[FireGoddess]

Finally got our tree decorated! We''ve had it since the weekend after Thanksgiving but the decorating had to go in incremental waves in order to familiarize our new terror (cat) with the tree, and so that our friend''s 2 year old daughter could decorate. Only the non-breakable ornaments this year, so all the pretty blown glass is still boxed away.

 

[sumbride]

Date: 12/6/2007 10:20:01 AM
Author: butterfly 17

Date: 12/6/2007 12:35:19 AM
Author: SanDiegoLady


BUTTERFLY! HOW did you mount your television? OMG I SOOOO desperately want to mount ours above our fireplace. Do you have solid beams/studs behind it? Its driving me nuts! lol

*btw... I love your tree topper, its just lovely.

Your going to laugh, but it came with the house. A little bonus from the sellers. WE still can''t figure out what to do with the wires and I don''t want to make any holes in the wall to hide them.

When we repainted the room (it''s supposed to be BM cappucino, but it looks pinker to me) we tried so hard to remove it from the mounting and we had no idea how.

It drove us crazy for three days and finally we gave up and just painted around the brackets.

If we sell the house, we are leaving the TV!!lol

Butterfly - Most of the mounting brackets work the same way, so here''s how ours worked... your mileage may vary. There are clips that are screwed into the back of the tv and they hook onto a bar on the mounting bracket. You can secure them by closing them over the bar. Ours even have a place to put a little padlock on it, but we haven''t done that yet. So to remove the tv, you wiggle the clips open, and then lift the tv UP and off the bar. It''s deceptively simple. I wouldn''t remove the bracket itself, but that''s how our bracket works.