Christmas trees

Getting closer to done.

I belong to an online group of artists. Someone posted a few questions about Christmas trees, just for the fun of seeing everyone's answers.

She asked:
How many trees go up in your home?
Are they up already?
Do you do them with primitives?
How long do you keep them up?
Real tree or fake?
Decorate by yourself or as a family?

Cedara

She answered them first herself.

How many trees go up in your home?
One...sometimes two if I am feeling full of energy! LOL

Are they up already?
Usually yes but the kitten is into EVERYTHING and she is making me really nervous about putting a tree up!

Do you do them with primitives?
YUP! If I am putting the decor up...then I get to pick the style and so the last few years...PRIM ALL THE WAY! LOL

How long do you keep them up?
Till the first weekend of Jan

Real tree or fake?
Fake....Mom is too nervous about a fire to have a real tree. We do put real boughs around our big window and door though with red bows!

Decorate by yourself or as a family?
I put it all up myself as everyone else can't do it anymore. They treat me to supper that day out! LOL

So, of course, I answered them.

How many trees go up in your home?
One, but it goes up many times. Mary Shelley does the happy kitty dance when she sees a tree come in, then she lives in it. That would work out OK, except Hub gets nervous that she is in there and in the ensuing fight over occupancy, it falls over many times. One year he put it up on the coffee table to make it harder to climb. You should have seen the mess when it came down! Another year he wrapped it in bird netting to keep her out. She got in anyway and when he tried to chase her out, she got trapped inside the netting and panicked.

Are they up already?
No. too early.

Do you do them with primitives?
We decorate with anything. Many of our decorations are the happy meal toys that we had so many of but that I wasn't allowed to throw out. I hung them on the tree, then packed them away in the ornament box. They come out every year and have fond memories.

How long do you keep them up?
Until Jan 1

Real tree or fake?
We have a new fake one that we got a 5 finger discount on when hubs company went out of business. (We also go all the office lobby plants.) This one had the lights already installed in the branches.The last time we had a real tree was when we were remodeling and funrniture was everywhere. We got a real one so we could cut the branches off of one side and push it closer to the wall. It's the only way we could fit it in.

Decorate by yourself or as a family?
Usually together. We bicker at the same time. The bickering begins over whether or not it is time to put the tree up, and if we should all decorate it together, and if we should do it all at once or ration it out so the deocrating lasts longer, and
"Who is clumping the ornaments? NO CLUMPING!"
"Put all the breakable ones up high so Mary Shelley can't get them."
"No, put them down low so that when the tree falls over they won't break."
"I thought we weren't allowed to clump them!"
"You can clump only when Dad authorizes it."
"Ok. Dad, can I clump the ugly ones in the back?"
"Yes, but that one's not ugly."
"It is too ugly!"
"No, it's not."
"Is too!"

It only comes once a year.

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