What do you have for the holidays----real tree, fake tree, or none. We had fake trees.

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62. With my parents a 🩷 live tree. If we had to really go out of the neighborhood we'd take it home on The Subway! 😁...

Then later with roommates get pine branches cut the bottoms and put in a tall vase w some water.

Next for a few years I'd take a fake, green "pine", or "fir" garland, and shape it on the wall (tape, and nails) into a simple Tree Triangle: triangle sides, the flat "bottom" of the branches leaving a small open space then a short bit of verticle from each horizontal end to make "the trunk".

Then where I had several sets of the nails at the same height across from each other from near the top to near the bottom; and putt string up horizontally across the corresponding nail. I'd then hang our family Xmas decorations, and new ones I made. Loved it.

When in my own apt I gave up the real branches, and the "wall tree", and got white branches for a corner and added little red balls on it.

Also since I had this great tall glass vase I also happened to see at Michael's their golden leaf branches ( a year, or two with gold & copper leaves). I'd get a few each year, and add them in. Add three fake pointsettas sticking just above the rim of the vase. Did that for ?9 yrs or so. Really loved that. One or two years found at Michael's something- a ?stik in a little plastic open one end, and the pine scent would emerge

And I got a big clear plastic plastic bowl, and bought the changing colored LEDS that were set inside a clear plastic star. Other times I strung them across the hooks that held half-curtains.

Now I have to get chunky green yarn in the next few days to make a row of crochet half shells (semi circle) on a base base chain: a garland. Then add this pretty, glinting gold "eyelash" yarn (a beige base yarn w thin, shiny golden polyester 1/16 wide x 1/2 long strips attached at 90° degrees) around the curved edges of the shells.

I'll see if I can get any lights.
At Michael's maaaybe I'll get a Styrofoam basic round flat "hoop"; wrap the green chunky yarn aroibd it, and and add the golden eyelash yarn and hang outside my apartment.

While it has it's moments of frustration I love setting up Xmas decorations! As you can since I described them.

Oh, and my sister almost always get a 3' ft or so live tree for her round table. SometimesI go over, and help her decorate. 🩷 It always looks lovely. She some of our other family decorations, a few I've made for her, and what she's bought or been gifted.