Christmas tree style - help

Golden , Noone might soon though !

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"OLDGREY" we obviously "Do the tree of choice " .

-- Up yours kirsty-- you cannot do tree"s like what we can !
Christmas chuckle

Ana
Now why didn't I think of that response?

You mean...you stole them, OGM?

Me too Galen and Nonu with the addition of glass dangly things* tied on with narrow blue ribbon.
*eat your heart out Kirsty Allsop, they are the crystals from old chandeliers.....
..... and before you say anything Jingle NO! the chandeliers were NOT mine!!!!!

I use lametta AND tinsel AND decorations my children made donkeys years ago and noone has complained yet

Galen , SNAP !
Very tasteful !

I've got blue and silver!

When with exdh we had red and gold, Mr P and I now have silver, I don't think it looks cold, but I may be wrong!

(Not bloody changing it this year, that's for certain!)

I have still got some lametta. Had it for years. I put a few strands on each year, and take them off again over the next few days. I used to like it!

When I was in Germany I bought some gold "angel hair" to drape artistically along the tree branches. I really liked it until a friend (who was with me at the time) referred to it as angel bum fluff. Can't quite see it in the same light any more

We always had Lametta when I was a child - very popular in Germany.
I try to have a colour theme - either all gold baubles or red and gold. Tried all silver one year but it looked much too cold. I also like adding a decoration or two each year - my favourites (again from Germany) are little glass bells tied in pairs with gold cord which just sit on the ends of the branches.
Haven't bought the tree yet - have had 2 nightmares already that it was Christmas morning and I had forgotten both the tree and the turkey

Most of my tree decorations are old ones collected over the years. I like them that way. I go for the nostalgic look, not purple and silver trendy.

We have just put the tree up. DH put the lights on and some of the decorations on whilst I was out at choir. It's an artificial tree this year and we have tried to toddler proof it as far as we can from the predations of a 15 mth old small boy.
How about an xmas tree picture thread. I am busy tomorrow and cannot get my tree finished until later Wednesday but I will start one if no one else has.

They obviously can't sell it Anno - it must be out of style.

Lametta as advertised by Selfridges.

Dress your tree with Lametta kittylester and make it look so good that everyone else wishes they'd done it

DH has just told me his mother got the lametta out every year to decorate the tree.

The stuff we had when I was a child was very thin so it must have been tinsel

Jilly Cooper would probably be able to fill us in on which one the aristocracy uses!

Lametta was a trade name way back. When we were kids (ie more than 60 years ago) we went every year to Woolworths to buy it. There are probably other brands but the 'real' Lametta was very thin strips of tinsel which we more or less slung at the tree hoping some of it would stick! We did have a very cavalier approach to tree dressing.

Nor me phoenix - I've got loads of lametta and absolutely no thin tinsel.

Sorry, but I don't think lametta is the same as thin tinsel!

jingl

I'd never heard of lametta. I had to google it.

My little house on the prairie will obviously never grace the pages of Country Living!

She is a bit of a tramp actually. I made the top of her frock from a piece of broderie anglaise. Turn your back and her tits fall out.

Oh right! Sorry.

I'm not BALD , in fact have rather a good head of hair !!
I meant I had seen a lot of Christmas"s like your fairy !!!

I am making no comments relating to baldness Nonu.

But I'm sure you are very pretty.