Happy Holidays Everyone!!!!! – Christmas Tree Tour

Posted on December 23, 2010

Hello. My name is Kelli and I am addicted to Christmas Trees.

It started after I got married and I wanted to decorate our tree with just red and silver ornaments. But I had a box full of ornaments that we have been given, ones from my childhood and ones that I had collected. So I decided that I could have a second tree for those ornaments. That is how it started and it just grew from there.

So here is a tour of most of my trees. Enjoy!

I have 5 full size trees and many 4 feet and under trees. I did not put up my Carolina Panther tree this year. Our season has been so bad that I just could not bear to look at it.

This is in my daughter’s room. She decorated it herself, I only did the garland. It is a feather tree with Hello Kitty, snowflakes, little flowers and 2 owl ornaments.

This is our only live tree and it is our main tree, my red and silver tree. I have some spinners on this tree. Spinners hold an ornament and slowly rotate it around.

In my foyer is my Star Trek tree. I have been collecting these ornaments for years. I am only missing the first 2 ornaments Hallmark released. And I never got into the Deep Space Nine series so I did not collect any of those. In the upper right, you can also see a little tree up in my landing window. That one is lights only. They are the old fashioned large bulbs.

Also in my foyer is my black tree decorated with silver and white ornaments.

This next tree started out as a joke. My brother and I enter our state fair’s cooking competitions and we are very competitive. Last year, I won some ribbons and he did not so I made My Ribbon tree to gloat a bit. It is a collection of my winnings from the last few years. Some of the categories I have placed in is cakes, cookies, knitting, scrap booking. This year I picked a larger tree to decorate and also added ornaments made by my daughter. I took 3 ornaments from my childhood and she recreated those. We finished those after I took these shots and I never got around to downloading them. But here are my ribbons and one of her handmade ornaments.

Here is my multi colored white tree. This has all of the ornaments that we have collected over the years. Ornaments from my childhood, my husband’s childhood. Some examples are, NC State, UNCW, Carolina Hurricanes, A Christmas Story, Survivor, Indiana Jones, a few are left from my Grandmother’s tree.

Here is a close up of some of the ornaments.

This is my little family tree. Each ornament has the name of a family member.

Growing up, my Mom was the only one to decorate our tree. She wanted a gold tree, gold lights and gold ornaments. At the time……UGH and BORING! Then one Christmas she had her foot operated on and could not decorate it. We were finally in charge and we went out and bought multi colored lights and ornaments! She never regained control of the tree. Years later my Dad and I decided to throw away most of those gold ornaments. Agggggh!!!! How I regret that now. We had these gold filagree ornaments that I was so sick of seeing but I would pay good money to have them back. We did save some of them and that is what is on this tree including the tree top. There is a picture on the tree of our tree decorated back in the 80′s.

These 2 decorations are also from my childhood.

Even my fish have a Christmas tree.

This little glass tree blinks with red, white and green. It was my Grandmother’s.

My candy tree.

My smallest tree sits on the sink in my powder bath. It is only about 6 inches tall. Each bell was wired on by me.

My Santa Claus. This in on the front porch.

This is my little kitchen tree.

This is not a tree but my Mom collected these for years from Avon. It is beautiful in all white. She did not like the stable that came with it so she found this all natural twig moss covered one.

I have a few more trees……..was anyone counting how many I did post?

My daughter has another tree that I forgot to take a picture of. It is a pink tinsel tree with every ornament that she has been given. Baby’s first Christmas, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, a few Grinch ornaments.

I a lot of non decorated trees. A fiber optic one, a gold wire tree, a Charlie Brown tree. Around the landing in my foyer, I have lined it with 10 or so table top trees. As I mentioned before, I did not put up my Carolina Panther tree and I did not do my icicle tree this year either. I have so many ideas for new trees but if I add any more and spend any more money on trees…..my husband will have a fit.

I hope you enjoyed the tour of my home. May you all have a wonderful and blessed holiday season!!!