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

Number - it is clearly sign of character and individuality in tree terms. I suspect your DH secretly knows it is listing!

We have had a rooted fresh tree in the past but bought an artificial one after 'the year of the needles' when we unfortunately bought a cut tree. The needles were for ever turning up however much we cleaned up!

We have had our artificial tree for well over 40 years now and it still looks every bit as good as when it was new. We have decorated the tree but DH won't let me do the fireplace as we have just had a wood burner installed and he thinks it will be too hot to put my garland on the mantelpiece. It would be a shame not to ever be able to use it again which I know is what will happen if I give in. Does he have a good point or will it be ok?

number you need to do what we've done - make the curtain pole slant so that the tree looks straight! Simples!

Except it's upside down - again!

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

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.

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

My friends wedding shop Christmas window.

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

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

My tree.

Ours!

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

Can't make a spider homeless at Christmas

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.

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.

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.

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

glass I love your friends window display!