matching ornaments on tree

have been looking at the farmers/warehouse catalogues and the trees are gorgeous- all matching decorations and such....compared to mine, which has decorations I made in kindy (think angel picture stuck to margarine lid), tinsel of differnet colour and sometimes literalkl hanging on by a thread....and was thinking - does anone actually DO the matching decoration thing? or is everyone's tree a living memorial to my arts and crafts classes in primary?

We do the random decorations, thats how we decorated our tree when we were kids and Ive continued doing it

Leelee wrote: We do the random decorations, thats how we decorated our tree when we were kids and Ive continued doing it

Same here

We have a few matching ball things and then have random ornaments - some my parents gave me, and plus we've been buying a special one each Christmas since we were engaged.

It's really cool looking at the ornaments and talking about where we got them from and when. We got Harry his first one last Christmas when he was still in my belly, it's a big daddy snowman holding a baby snowman - so cute! So our tree is kinda a 'story' of our life so far. I like that and as Harry gets older we'll tell him the story of each decoration.

My parents still have decorations we made when we were kids and I think it's so special. Maybe it doesn't look as "perfect" but to me it has a whole lot more meaning.

Sort of both, I have matching ones, cause I bought large sets of decorations from the warehouse. I reuse the same decorations each year. We only have a 4ft tree so looks very random when its decorated, as there is only so many decorations that will fit.

We buy 1 ornament every year so we have lots of random ones on the tree. But we also have a whole lot of little silver and red baubles which we use as the 'base' IYKWIM so it does end up looking consistent that way.

But we haven't yet got to macaroni and tinsel home-made stage yet - that will be in a few years so ask me then lol!

We have matching ones and then the odd random one from the boys or something like that.

I've got my parents old tree and decorations, all in red, green and gold and I love it like that, although when bubs arrives and gets bigger we'll probably end up with a bit of a colour mismatch like we used to have when we were kids

we had to buy a new tree and diarations as our old tree was about 30- years old

ours is blue and silver matching decorations

Our decorations are all store bought but it's a colourful and random mix of decorations. 

For years I decorated our tree silver and blue until DH complained it wasn't colourful enough and so I went out and bought some pink and purple decorations to annoy him since then we've added all sorts of colours.

I never use tinsel though, I hate wrapping it around the tree and taking it down again.