OT Flash your XMas Tree!!!!!

Putting ours up tonight too... it's in place, just letting the branches drop a little before dressing... will post tomorrow too!

I have a pic from last year (hence presents under the tree), going to be similar this year. This year I have a big fat wreath to put over the fireplace (rather than that map?! we'd just moved in and needed something LOL). Christmas is one of my favourite times of year.

Wowww stunning piccies!! trees look wonderful. Havent bought ours yet, I think we are putting ours in the hall as the heat of the stove will make our tree naked in the lounge.......... i cant stop buying xmas decs at the mo tho!

Elizabeth - Love your tree (and all the pressies!!!)

FF- yours is gorgeous - adore your living room and the beautiful fireplace. Hope me and OH get a living room like that when we get our house together!!!!

XXElizabethXx Your tree is lovely, and how on earth have you managed so much Christmas shopping!? I better get my skates on. I love putting the tree and decorations up, I always get H2B to do the lights and other boring stuff. We leave the baubles till last and have a glass of sparkly wine and put them on together. (I move them when he's not looking).

Christmas makes me so happy and this year my H2B isn't working!! Weeeee!

Ours is only a little on as our flat is tiny! but its real, and it smells fab! (notice the fake snow at the bottom ? )

Ace trees ladies! I love a good snoop!!

x

my 5 year old son done it and it looks alot better darker so you can really see the lights.

We put ours up last night... ?

We have a little traidtion where D buys me a tree decoration every year so we have a mis-match of shapes and colours on our tree! I love it.

Have just finished mine, hence the messy house. We usually have gold and red but while OH was at work I popped out to get some pinky/purpley stuff so he had no choice ?

I do that too GB! I also try and get baubles from places we're been (I've got a windmill bauble for one!) and baubles of where we live and went to uni and of our names and things.

I bore H2B every year as we go through the stories for each one!

FF, I want to come to your house, it looks so cosy! My tree's going up later if I can be bothered.

I put mine up last night - I love having the xmas decs up!!!! Had to include a little pic of my gingerbread men too that sit at opposite sides of the tv.

Brilliant trees there folks. Here's my baby.....the first one in a few years so had the fun of choosing everything new
.....with a chuntering (bah humbug) OH in tow. As we're both DJs.... I make him sing a different Christmas ditty everytime I switch it on or off. As we've had it up since the 1st Dec, he's starting to struggle now!!!!

Gillsy I love your gingerbread men. Where did you get those from?

Thanks Zippy - I actually got them in America a couple of years ago. They were only $2.99 each!!!!

Here's our -

We put it up today. It has made the room smell gorgeous too!

Really pretty trees everyone. I like all the different themes - maybe I need more than one tree?!

Glad I'm not the only one who puts the crackers on the tree. H2B thinks I'm crazy.

As designed by H2B and my boys! x

Apols for really rubbish pics. take note of the stylish curtains - the same ones dannii sits in front of on her x-factor VTs!!! i wonder if she know they're from b&q... ?

it's all done in purples and golds.

Admit it BW, Danni films the VTs from your house, eh??!! (they are nice curtains)

lovely trees...hubby says he'll buy 'mine' (????) tomorrow...i'll let it drop and then i'll decorate it. Ive been buying loads of new decs for the place so be interesting to see what it looks like! will post pic then.

Lovely trees everyone, I wish I had a real one I feel like a bit of a skank now with my 3 year old asda's finest plastic tree ?

This is our tree - first tree in our new house

Everyone's trees looks lovely. Makes me feel so christmassy

This is ours ?

Wow melons, your tree is all bright and pictureesque!

hubby went to the local garden centre today to get one and came back empty handed.

'30 to 50 quid they are charging!!!! is that how much a tree costs??!!!! I aint paying that!' Looks like we could be waiting till B&Q are selling the left overs for a quid...

bah humbug!

Home-made wreath

Teehee, our local B&Q was doing spend £45 quid instore get a reak tree free!! In laws2be got theirs through the deal... I haven't put mine up yet! xx

Here's mine:

Looking gorgeous as ever Sherrie........

how much did people pay for their trees???whats the average price??

Wow some really gorgeous trees, Sherrie yours is beautiful.

Here is mine

And I have a wee one in my kitchen too, I'd have one in every room if only I was allowed ha ha!

You after a real or fake one?

Ours is real; it is a 4 foot, Nordmann Fir and cost £24.00 from our nearest farm shop - we got free cups of takeaway coffee too!

But the price varies up and down the country.....I remember about six years ago, seeing a 5 footer being sold in a Florists in Shad Thames, near the Design Museum, for £70! Suffice to say I almost fainted.

Back in Suffolk my Step-dad and I would go and choose then cut/dig our own tree - one of the many perks of living next door to a Christmas tree farmer. We'd spend a whole day there, walking round all the trees! The same said farmer also gives us a 35lbs free-bronze Norfolk Bronze Turkey every year! I bloody love country life!

A real one, £25 seems reasonable.......cept our garden centre think we're all loaded coz we live where we live and drive 4x4s pffftttttttttttttt........ maybe we'll get one at some point this week........

im very envious of your fire place oohla, we dont have a fireplace just a stove sitting there!