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QOTD
Do you do a theme on your Christmas tree? If so, do you change it every year?
Honeymooning
Re: QOTD
We'll just not tell H about this little fact, m'kay?
We do red and gold ornaments/trim. This is only the second year that we'll have a tree, and we probably won't change because we don't really have a lot of storage for different themes.
ETA: I'm lucky my Gordie Howe/Red Wings ornament goes so well.
This exactly, minus the Darth Vader ornament.
Everything on our tree is random and a lot of the ornaments have special meaning. We buy a new one each year and we buy one everywhere we travel. I love love our tree like that and wouldn't have it any other way. It's so fun pulling the ornaments out each year and having memories attached to them.
I absolutely love Christmas ornaments.
Cecilia arrived 12 October 2012
Nope, although that is subject to change this year since we are doing TWO trees.
My grandmother gave me (all of her grandkids) a Hallmark ornament each year until we turned 18. I have collected a ton of Christmas decorations and they almost all have sentimental value. I wouldn't trade my eclectic tree for the world.
That said, I love theme trees and since we have two trees (I made Jim buy one the first year we were dating) I may do the second one up that way. The two years that it was up in his old place, it was just white lights and ribbon garland, so I may be able to change that up without too much expense this year. I'll have to see what is in the store that catches my eye.
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We don't have our own tree yet.
My parents' tree didn't have a theme. They just had a few sets of ornaments that they reused every year. When we get our own tree I'm sure it'll be pretty random but I will try to make it look somewhat coordinated.
Baby #2: Surprise BFP 9.19.12, EDD 5.24.13, natural m/c 10.19.13 at 9w
We have two semi themes. We each have the ornaments from each year of our lives. Both our families bought an ornament for each child every year. Now we have a tree of ornaments from 1977 on.
The other thing we have done is bought a snowflake ornament for each year we have been together:
onlynire - I LOVE that ornament
Our tree doesn't really have a theme but we but have tons of childhood ornaments that we use to decorate. My Mom used to work at Hallmark so I have lots of really nice ornaments.
Our main tree is semi-themed. It's mostly red and gold. This wasn't deliberate, we just didn't have many ornaments and I was able to buy a few really large containers of ornaments on sale one year after Christmas. They were mainly red and gold.
Our second tree is similar to sreihing's. It's in the man cave, but is mostly orange and blue. It has our Illini, Bears and Cubs ornaments. And, sreihing, it totally makes sense to me.
Our tree is random. We do try and get an ornament from all the places we have traveled together. It's kind of cool because it brings back the memories of our trips. We're upgrading our tree this year and getting a bigger one so we'll see how it goes. I'll have to buy more stuff to decorate it.
You can purchase them here:
http://vermontsnowflakes.com/ornaments.shtml
I apologize in advance if the link isn't clicky; I just moved to the mac-side and am still figuring things out.
My tree is pretty bright and bold. I did a mardi gras theme tree a few years back and kept all the ornaments I colored.
A friend told me once it looked like the OPI nail polish line threw up on my tree. I took it as a compliment since that's exactly how I colored my ornaments.
you made me feel so much better - i felt a little silly typing it out. it really is impressive once you see it, but sounds a bit "rabid fan" on the screen. must be a Big Ten thing
My dad just sent me a mini Red Sox Christmas tree. It came with all Red Sox ornaments and a string of Sox pennants to wrap around it. I was so excited when it came in the mail!