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I always wanted to have 2 trees. one traditional and on with a theme. never seem to get around to it though!

Real...only because hubby wants it that way. I would go Fake in a New York second if he could stand it. But he can't, so we don't!

I actually am allergic to about every tree out there, but we get frazier firs and I do okay. I just ramp up the allergy meds. But don't bring a pine in here or I'm a mess.

Plus, we have the tree in the front living room, and we spend most time in our den, so that helps.

All real here!!!

Well, it seems I must print a retraction. We hadn't gotten our fake tree out of the garage yet, but while we were out and about today we stopped at a Christmas Tree lot "just go get some branches to smell up the house." ... We came home with a whole tree It's teensy because we have no room for a tree so we have to put it in our bay window/window seat. Even though it's a real healthy tree, we're still calling it our "Charlie Brown" tree.

mbw1024 wrote:I always wanted to have 2 trees. one traditional and on with a theme. never seem to get around to it though!

Me too Mary Beth! Every year I say I'm going to get an aluminum tree off eBay and hang all my Star Trek and NASA ornaments on it. I would have to leave it up all year, though, I'd be so stoked with it. LOL!

California Girl,
I'll have to introduce you to my hubby...a true-blue Star Trek and NASA fan; actually, it's more of an obsession. He knows every episode of Star Trek and when it comes to the Shuttle....just stay out of his way. He gets the live NASA computer stream on launch days.

Back in the day when we had a larger home and separate living room and den areas - we had 2 trees - one was a Star Trek tree.

It may have been a mid-life crisis, but we went totally fake last year; definitely less sagging.

nice. what is that picture over your fireplace? is it from STJ? it looks like Bermuda to me.

2 trees ~ both real!

One is the "formal" tree decorated in gold and maroon and the other is the "kiddie" tree. It's decorated in every ornament that my children have made over the years. They decorate this tree themselves and talk about when they made the ornaments. It's really cute to listen to them brag to each other about their ornaments.

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Bug

Excellent eye Mary Beth. That is Bermuda - it is a Carol Holding watercolor; there are 3 of them over the fireplace.

jayseadee wrote:Excellent eye Mary Beth. That is Bermuda - it is a Carol Holding watercolor; there are 3 of them over the fireplace.

I have some of them myself. I'd know it anywhere!

Charlie lived in Bermuda for a year.

We have always had a big real tree, which we put up Christmas Eve's day and took down before New Year. It was decorated with much different things- hand made things, heritage things from our parents, bought things and of course candle lights – not very sophistically, but we like it so.

But the last three years we have celebrated Christmas in our son’s house, so we have dropped this tree and have now only our smaller living tree, which I plant in a very big pot. It’s only decorated with small electric lights like stars, and the first thing I do in the morning is to switch it on. After New Year we plant the tree out. Furthermore to have “the smell”, I make some Christmas decorations, one of them on a beautiful more than 40 years old tree root, which I decorate with real things from the forest and our garden- and of course candle light.

Linne

This thread has really had me laughing. My husband is a Christmas tree decorating "nut". For eons we had a real tree that he searched out carefully. If it was not as shapely as he wanted he removed branches and then would drill a hole in the trunk and reposition the branches. We originally had the tree in our living room but then we started going to STJ the day after Christmas so we put in our sunroom where it could stay until we returned because we turned the heat off in the room. The year before last we purchased a fake one. It is 9 feet tall and the heaviest thing you could imagine. This year he got tired of lugging it so now we have 2/3's of the tree up! 6 feet isn't too bad. I really thought he was going back to a real one this year as we are not going to STJ until later in the year.

Our tree is fake. It has to be because both John and I have terrible allergies to so many things. I got the tree assembled and the lights on last night, but still have to get the ornaments on.

jayseedee and Mary Beth, my parents' living room is completely decorated with Carol Holding watercolors! They have Horseshoe Bay, Warwick Long Bay, a flower one, Jobson's cove, a longtail one, and three others that I forget which beach they are.

liamsaunt wrote:Our tree is fake. It has to be because both John and I have terrible allergies to so many things. I got the tree assembled and the lights on last night, but still have to get the ornaments on.

jayseedee and Mary Beth, my parents' living room is completely decorated with Carol Holding watercolors! They have Horseshoe Bay, Warwick Long Bay, a flower one, Jobson's cove, a longtail one, and three others that I forget which beach they are.

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