Your "theme" Christmas tree?

[Army Wife'79]

Does anyone else do a specific theme on their trees? For one of my trees I have a white artificial tree with all purple/lavendar ornaments and it even has all purple lights (bought at a Halloween clearance). Purple has always been my favorite color.

Tell us about your tree.

[agzg]

My dad does a snowman themed tree sometimes - he'll put up the "family" ornaments that we've had forever, but the rest of the ornaments were snowmen, and he put ribbon on it that had snowmen on it.

When I was in college, my roommates and I had a Pineapple tree. It was a running joke about pineapples - all our oven mitts, salt and pepper shakers, tableclothes, etc were pineapples. So when Christmas came along we had an artificial tree with a homemade (seriously - it was made out of construction paper) pineapple tree topper and pineapple ornaments. I'm pretty sure we left it up until March or April.

[summer_gphib]

We have a real Fraser Fir, with a lot of sentimental ornaments. We also have red and green oraments mingled with all of the old meaningful ones. My favorite oraments are a glass peacock ornament that came from Epcot. It has a real peacock feather. Our old neighborhood had over 100 wild peacocks, so it's a way of bringing them with us to our new home. My hubby also has these wooden birds he made with his late grandfather, when he was a boy. They'd be a lot cuter if he hadn't "painted" them brown and black with a magic marker. But they have a lot of meaning.

We did get a new tree topper for the new house. It's my favorite thing ever. *lol*
Here's the a picture. (image taken from ebay... ours actually came from Disney Studios.)

[sigmadiva]

This year and last it finally occurred to me to have a needlepoint ornament tree. So, I have this small tree with some of my finished needlepoint ornaments on it. For some reason it just hit me that I need a nice tree topper, so I think for my tree next year I'm going to stitch an angel for my tree topper.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by summer_gphib

We have a real Fraser Fir, with a lot of sentimental ornaments. We also have red and green oraments mingled with all of the old meaningful ones.

That's us, too. My parents started the tradition with us of buying an ornament whenever we went on vacation somewhere. When I was grown up, I had a "starter set" of the ornaments I had gotten on trips. My wife and I started the same tradition on our honeymoon.

I'd say that at least 75% of our ornaments are either from trips or there's some other sentimental/historical connection. (The rest are ornaments the kids made or the like -- we have no glass balls or anything similar, and we definitely don't try to stick to any kind of color scheme. We like variety.) It makes decorating the tree turn into a time to remember fun places we've been and things we've done over the years.

[ComradesTrue]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

That's us, too. My parents started the tradition with us of buying an ornament whenever we went on vacation somewhere. When I was grown up, I had a "starter set" of the ornaments I had gotten on trips. My wife and I started the same tradition on our honeymoon.

Same here. We have a real Frazier Fur with only silver and red ornaments, white lights and silver and red ribbon. Even our sentimental ornaments(travel, wedding, kids' first Christmas, major life event souvenirs, etc) are in that scheme.

My kids are still too young (24 months and 1 month) this year, but I have told my husband that once they start making crafts we are getting a second tree for those. I am sure that I will cherish their pipe cleaner, cotton ball, and clothes-pin art, but I will cherish it more on its own tree. Away from mine.

[AGDee]

At this point, my kids have accumulated so many ornaments of their own that I barely have any plain round bulbs on the tree. When they move out and take their ornaments with them, I will, essentially, have an Alpha Gam tree. I have lots of squirrel ornaments, several gold plated cut out ornaments engraved with years (Alpha Gam ornaments), one ornament with the coat of arms on it, etc. Since my bulbs are all red/gold and green, it will be quite easy to just have an Alpha Gam tree!

[ISUKappa]

At some point I'm sure I'll have a strictly Santa tree - our big tree is almost all Santas anyway. My mom has a cow tree, a snowman tree and an angel tree along with the big tree.

[sceniczip]

My mom does a tree in our loft area that is all teddy bears. There's even a teddy bear angel on top. It looks really pretty when it's done and she always does the white lights, no colors, and it looks really elegant.

[ZTAMich]

Last year was our first Christmas with a tree. So for now we just have 1 tree and it is a mixture of random ornaments from Target, some from our childhoods and some that we've picked up in the last year. We received a bride and groom ornament with 2007 on it as part of a wedding gift and it got me thinking it would be neat to get a date ornament of some sort every year. That may make a fun 2nd tree someday. Secretly thought I would love to have a tree all to myself to decorate super girly & pink!! My husband and our hypothetical children could have free reign of another tree if I had one all to myself.

[Benzgirl]

I have one that is only gold ornaments. I also have a fine gold mesh wire-ribbon flowing through it. The tree is only about 4' tall, so it sits on a table in the bay window in the front. My tall pencil tree is a plethora of everything else (lots of hallmark ornaments).

My mother always did one tree of just angle ornaments.

[LucyKKG]

We put strings of Norwegian flags on our tree. It's a Norwegian thing...obviously...

(Oh, we still put lights and ornaments, too.)

[AlwaysSAI]

I was raised in a household where every year, the tree was a different theme. One year, it was Disney. Another year it was Snowmen. Then, angels, Santa...the list goes on.

This is the first year I have decorated a tree of my own and I guess, technically I have a theme. It's red & white (for SAI) and pigs (because I love them). There are also some random music notes (also for SAI) and a few random angels.

I like to call it--SAI Pigs--Feel the Oink-hood.

[LegallyBrunette]

Growing up, our tree never had a theme. It was always just a mish mash of homemade ornaments and colored lights and tons of the shiny garland and tinsel, on a real evergreen. In high school, I always really wanted a classy looking theme tree, but the family wasn't on board...

Fast forward to last Christmas when the last of my sibs moved out, and mom suddenly decides she wants a theme tree. So now she has an artificial tree with white lights and all red & silver ornaments. It's pretty and I would have LOVED it ten years ago, but now when I go home for the holidays I really miss our rag tag old school trees!

[honeychile]

Sort of a tangent of MysticCat's tree, my roomie's kids are the only grandchildren on both sides. Rather than compete on the toys, I've bought each of them a special ornament each year. Roomie is very worried about what she'll do when they grow up and move out!

At my house, I have a completely feminine tree, something I could do when I was divorced. It's green, but the ornaments & beads are all pink, white, gold, or clear. I put sprays of flowers to fill the "holes". I then sprinkle "snow" over it, to soften the green.

At my mother's, this year's tree is a weird combination: our annual White House ornament collection and Bichon Frises! So, it's also somewhat gold and white!

Growing up, we had a white tree, and every year, it had a different theme - red, green, blue, and purple stand out. We also had a small real tree, with the sentimental ornaments on it. Yes, lots of needlework or other handmade ornaments!


ETA: forgot about the flowers!