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| hanlonfive |
Posted - Nov 25 2008 : 6:36:56 PM
I have some ideas of how I want to decorate my tree, but was wondering how all of you are going to do yours?
I will post mine later......
Kelli
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| Tammy Claxton |
Posted - Dec 23 2008 : 05:33:42 AM
Pic of my tree: Merry Christmas!
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| Tammy Claxton |
Posted - Dec 22 2008 : 1:39:37 PM
There's a picture of my Christmas tree on my blog. I think the kids did a very awesome job decorating it this year!!
Carol, you'll see my tree in a few days.. :)
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| carolbrigid |
Posted - Dec 14 2008 : 6:16:47 PM
I have a lot of handmade ornaments that have a country theme that I have collected over the years, a lot of homespun looking ornaments, things I made myself, etc. I love kitchen things, and this week when I was at our local KMart, I found the most adorable ornaments - little retro looking kitchen utensils by Martha Stewart (of course! LOL) - I got a slotted spoon, a potato masher, a soup ladle, and what I call a pancake turner. Just adorable and 50 percent off, even better LOL! Also, my mom and dad bought me a Christmas apron there at KMart, it is adorable too, with a country Christmas type print and a red ruffle around the edge. I was going to make the Holiday Apron in our Mary Jane magazine, but ran out of money and time.... I will make one for next year, though!! Also I have those little bubble lights for our tree. I just love it all!
Farmgirl Hugs,
Carol
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| carolbrigid |
Posted - Dec 14 2008 : 6:12:20 PM
Oh Anne, I LOVE anything and everything to do with the beach and the ocean. I would LOVE to see your tree!! I can just imagine how beautiful it must look! What a wonderful idea.
Farmgirl Hugs,
Carol
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| scurran |
Posted - Dec 14 2008 : 5:15:00 PM
My husband & I have been together for 5 years but married for just over a year. We always just did white lights and silver balls with a silver angel on top. But we have accumulated some 'special' ornaments and so a few are now scattered about. And the whole thing is finished off with my green tree skirt and my quilt bears under the tree. They give the cat something to snuggle up to!
Sara
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| LindaEllen |
Posted - Dec 14 2008 : 4:26:22 PM
We always put up a real tree. I like to gather things in the woods like grapevines. I put pinecones and rosehips and different dried flowers. Theres a birds nest in there too. String up popcorn and cranberries for garland. My sons baby shoe hangs on a branch and my pocketwatch hangs as well. Things the kids made when they were young and lots of homemade wooden ornaments from a local artist.
I also put pheasant feathers in between branches. Always white lights on the tree.
Our son is stationed in Germany and he is sending German made ornaments, I can't wait to see what he sends but I rather have him here instead.
My workshop tree is artifical and is deck out in a Northern look w/the tiniest white lights, wheat seed lights I think they are called. A Victorian white tree in our bedroom but its not up yet this year. There was a time when I had 11 Christmas tree in our home. Everyone had a tree in their room. I so don't do that anymore. Bathrooms and kitchen had a tree too.
In the storage box is one of those dated aluminum trees. I think for fun i might put it up this year. That type of tree was our Christmas at grandmas and grandpas. Theirs had a rotating light that shined on the tree. We all laugh hard about that tree of our youth. My favorite tree is the Charlie Brown type : )
Linda
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| K-Falls Farmgirl |
Posted - Dec 13 2008 : 09:00:26 AM
Before my Children moved away on their own, Our tree was full of their handmade decorations made at school, blue birds, and during those days when school was closed due to weather.. and that included pasted birds of seeds & macaroni.
glittered lids and strings of popcorn.. I kinda miss that ( I gave each child theire own for their tree when they left home). Now I have all nature ornaments made of wood & straw. Birds nests and paper bird ornaments of all kinds. Lots of red and gold ribbon bows and paper mache' gold fruit and nuts. Silver strings of beads and white twinkly lights and a lit star on top.
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Dec 12 2008 : 11:30:42 AM
I forgot that I'm adding quite a few "Miss Wilma" original ornaments this year. Such a nice rememberance of such a dear friend. Can't wait to put up the mittens made from old homespun blankets! |
| corporatefarmgirl |
Posted - Dec 12 2008 : 11:23:50 AM
Every year we get a real tree from the tree farm up the road from us. After dinner, on Thanksgiving day, we string popcorn and cranberries, dry orange slices and string them, and make sugar and gingerbread cookies ( for the grandkids). I have handmade ornaments from my grandmother and those are very special. I also use pine cones and anything natural that looks good..
The tree farm is a great Thanksgiving weekend tradition and they only charge 5.00 a foot for trees you can replant and I get to support a local farmer 
Tamara
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| happydaze |
Posted - Dec 11 2008 : 6:46:28 PM
We will be stringing popcorn, dried fruit ,and cranberries to decorate our bird feeders...we get to watch the colorful birds and they get a pretty meal |
| lacisne88 |
Posted - Dec 08 2008 : 8:27:55 PM
We're actually not getting a tree this year. For many years while my grandparents lived with us, my family would get a live tree and plant it in our yard after Christmas. We hate buying trees that are chopped down/ or chopping them down ourselves. We think it's better to give back to the earth and plant new trees. Anyways, the live trees are much more expensive than the cut trees so this year we will have to do without one. I love handmade Christmas decorations and ornaments though and I have had so much fun trading with the other farmgirls in the ornament swaps!
Chelsey
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| Sitnalta |
Posted - Dec 08 2008 : 5:27:31 PM
my tree usually has our special family ornament....like babys first christmas....and then lots of sunflowers and red gingham ribbon through it. Topped with a white angel and lots of colorful lights
Jessie
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| deeredawn |
Posted - Dec 08 2008 : 06:32:41 AM
Kelli! It's so good to hear from you! Email me sometime as I am planning another Ohio FarmGirl Gathering/Meeting for January. Love for you to be included!!
I just received a box of vintage bulbs from my FIL. I hung them all on the tree this year with some old timey lookin santas. I think it looks great.
Christine: I love the frayed fabric ball idea. I will have to try that!
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| yarnmamma |
Posted - Dec 06 2008 : 10:43:45 PM
love the pic...thanks! and all the ideas sound great....
this year I'm doing some yoyos for mine....bought a 7 ft tree (not christmas, but regular looking tree) I think I'll put some garland on it and use the smaller Christmas trees on my dining table. I hang crochet chains around to put the cards on and also some ornaments. Sometimes I stuck the Christmas cards right inside the tree when I put the biggest one up.
Linda in Scranton, PA
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| jumpingjuliet |
Posted - Dec 05 2008 : 5:04:33 PM
I am doing multiple trees. The main tree is a big real tree with all of the sentimental handmade family ornaments. The second one is all handblown glass figure onaments, the third is my hubby's tree with texaco lights and his miniature texaco trucks as ornaments and a few tractor and cowboy ornaments thrown in. The next tree is an artificial that already has pine cones and berries and I hang all hand crocheted snowflakes made by my great aunt all over it with white twinkle lights. The last is a little tree in the kitchen with tiny blown glass ornaments and snowflakes on it. This is the first year that I have gotten into decorating for Christmas although I am always collecting CHristmas stuff. This year I am enjoying it. To kind of cat proof things. anchor your tree to the wall or ceiling with high test fishing line and a cup hook. tie your ornaments on with twist ties or pipe cleaners. This is how we toddler/ dog/ cat proof ours.
Merry Christmas
Becky
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| sweetproserpina |
Posted - Dec 05 2008 : 06:38:10 AM
My tree is very old-fashioned/vintagey. I have the antique ornaments (100years+) that I have from my godmother, and I have my own vintage ornaments (30's-50's) that decorate the tree. I also have a number of handmade victorian style ornaments made from copies of old victorian papers, cards, and sparkly pipe cleaners, shiny silver glass bead garlands, and slightly tarnished silver ball ornaments too. A (fake)dove always sits at the top of my tree, instead of a star.
This year though, I am strongly thinking I'm going to do a Victorian table top tree instead of a big one. I inherited a lovely victorian pedestal table this year, and I thought it would be kind of neat to try a smaller tree on top of it.
I'm also putting up (and decorating!) a great big grape vine swag that I made that's going to go above the big window in the front room. I think it's a country Victorian christmas this year =:-)
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| melanie47601 |
Posted - Dec 04 2008 : 6:52:15 PM
I thought I would post a pic of my tree since I got her up. I decided not to put lights on the tree this year. Yeah it's missing a lil something, but there's lots of plus sides to it. I'll save money on my electric bill, lessen my chances for a fire, didn't have a cussin fit puttin the tree up, wasn't in a foul mood by the time I got it put together, didn't get scratched up....
The kids put most of the ornaments on the tree. They didn't think they were ever going to get them all on the tree. And well they still don't have all of them on the tree. I think we ran out of places to put them. Oh yeah I have an ornament fetish. LOL
I'd love to see how everyone else's trees turn out.
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Dec 03 2008 : 09:30:49 AM
I've been collecting ornaments for so many years--even before I had a house! A Christmas tree is a must--in fact, when we were first married, we were so broke we didn't get anyone a gift, but we made sure all the bills were paid, waited until Christmas Eve when they marked trees down and bought one because it was that important to us :)
I've travelled and lived all over the US and in Britain, so a great deal of my ornaments are from places that mean something to me, so each and every year I get them out, it takes me right back to where I was when I bought the ornament. Most, if not all, are handmade by artisans where I purchased them. We always use white lights...don't know why, it's what we bought that first year, I guess, along with the same bronze turkish star tree topper that we bought dirt cheap on clearance that makes wonderful little patterns on the ceiling when lit.
I do supplement some old glass bulbs from my Great Aunt and things like that, but our tree rarely changes, and I'm super alright with that!!! |
| msjocee |
Posted - Dec 02 2008 : 4:51:16 PM
My tree is up (fake), I have lots of vintage ornaments that were my grandparents and my neighbors gave me her parents since she had no kids. I found vintage bead garland this year too. I have "flicker" lights as well and old tarnished star on top. I will try to post a few pics I have the handemade ones from the kids and hallmark ones too! I have a table with a load of Santa's on it a cupboard shelef with snowmen and a wreath my mom made me last year with all the remaing vintage ornaments from her mom it hangs year round in my hall way. Oh also hidden in out tree is a 9 inch nail that represts Jesus and what he did for us. You hang it near the trunk. The kids are always amazed at how big it is and how heavy it is.
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| farmmom22 |
Posted - Dec 01 2008 : 11:53:52 AM
There is definately no money to buy any new ornaments so I've been making my own the past two years. I make salt dough stars and paint them up all primitive, I make cinnamon dough and use my farm animal cookie cutters to make ornies. Then I dip them in wax and hang to let dry. I also make rag ball ornies, old fashion clothespins that I paint and everything gets hung on the tree with torn homespun. Next year I want to make a garland using twine and tying torn homespun on it. If anyone wants the salt dough or cinnamon applesauce dough recipes let me know.
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| greyghost |
Posted - Nov 30 2008 : 1:50:14 PM
Last year I decorated a palm tree (Drachena) with white lights, some glittered branches and poinsettia blooms.
This year we have a real tree - first in four years. I've wrapped the root-quality burlap around the base as a skirt, and am making small bows from other bits of better-quality burlap. I have a few antique ornaments and then several nondescript ball glass ornaments, and a few favorites collected from our childhoods.
And even though we don't have kids, there is a pickle ornament hidden in there somewhere. |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Nov 30 2008 : 12:17:22 PM
I would not even do a tree anymore, but when there are grandkids around, it has to done. I let them decorate our tree. It always looks so cute when they're done with it. Most of the decorations are old, homemade by kids and grands. It takes them nearly all day, but keeps them busy, too! It is hard to get things moved around to make a spot for a tree in this small house. But we usually find a place for it.
This year I am going to put garland and lights on the picket fence in front of my goat yard. And red bows, too. I'll see how long that lasts! I just thought it would be pretty at night lit up for the goats to see.
Lately it just seems like so much work for just a few weeks. I used to do the whole house up and have peolpe over all the time, but not any more. I don't know if that comes with age or what. I think it's an age thing, myself.
Ya'll have fun with your trees. Can't wait to see pictures soon!
Kris |
| clux64 |
Posted - Nov 29 2008 : 08:58:31 AM
I collect old vintage ornaments (like from the 30's and 40's) and cover the tree with them. I want to put 'icicles' on the tree to add to the vintage feel, but in the past my cats have tried to eat it and I'm afraid someone will choke. I want to make a garland out of yo-yos...but that hasn't happened yet. Anyway, vintage ornaments are pretty cheap, and can often be found at farm estate auctions--I sometimes get several boxes for under $5. They just have the feel of christmas that I remember growing up. I also buy my kids each a Radko ornament of their choosing each year...I'll give them their ornaments when they establish their own homes. Since most of the Radko are from vintage molds, they fit right in with my vintage ornaments. I love Christmas!
Celeste
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| MsCwick |
Posted - Nov 28 2008 : 11:00:36 AM
I have taken to foam balls and a lot of straight pins and lots of little(1/2 to 1/4)strips of fabric and ribbons and string and starting at the top with the widest material first, pin one end of the fabric, wrap around and pin the other end right where you began. continue until you have one layer around, and if it frays, it looks even better. then do a few strips of ribbon, and then a piece or two of string over the ribbon. you can pin on a sprig of pine or cedar at the top, and then pin on a loop to hang it!
I'll take some pics in the next few days and post them... |
| asnedecor |
Posted - Nov 28 2008 : 09:34:12 AM
This year will be the seashore tree. I rotate tree styles every year. So the seashells, fish and all the other seashore items will come out and decorate our tree. For the past several years I have been searching for a tree topper to go with this theme and finally this last year when we were on vacation at the coast I found a Star Fish tree topper at my favorite Christmas store in Lincoln City, OR. Apparently some of the women who work at the store create some of the ornaments that they sell there and this was one of them.
We won't be getting our tree for at least another two weeks due to limited space in our house.
Anne in Portland, OR
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