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lizzle
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Topic: matching ornaments on tree Posted: 07 December 2008 at 9:46am |
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?
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BugTeeny
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 9:58am |
We have matching ornaments, but with a few sentimental 'random' ones
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 10:01am |
We do the random decorations, thats how we decorated our tree when we were kids and Ive continued doing it
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 10:06am |
Yep we have a random collection of tinzel and decorations collected over the last ten or so years, lol, it gives our tree its own special character
And the kids love plastering it in this motley collection too
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 10:13am |
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.
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 10:22am |
Totally random here! I look at those colour coordinated trees in shops and stuff and think wow pretty, but nothing like ours lol.
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 10:32am |
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.
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 11:00am |
We have just moved oseas so had to buy a new tree & decorations. I always wanted to have the one colour on the tree, as always had mismatched dec's. So I have gold with a few ornaments on it with the gold. Looks awesome  I'm in awe with my xmas tree lol..
But in saying that if my daughter makes anything at daycare it will be on the tree in an instant.
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 11:14am |
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!
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 1:02pm |
We bought our tree and decorations last year after having no tree of our own ever and we bought things in just red and gold so they matched. Growing up it was always mismatched decorations that we'd all made and it's nice when each decoration has a memory or story but I have to say I love how our tree looks now.
We let Livvy pick out her own 'first' decoration this year and she picked a silver one so the mismatching is starting and no doubt in a few years it'll be totally random decorations. Once she can start making her own decorations it won't bother me what it looks like.
As for character, our tree leans way over to one side so it has character too. It's like the leaning tower of pisa
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 1:05pm |
We have matching ones and then the odd random one from the boys or something like that.
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 2:22pm |
We have always had matching and formal trees but this year I decided to do our tree in red and gold and just chuck everything on... much more fun for Neosha. MIL on the other hand has a white tree, a green tree and a black tree and every single colour decoration all in seperate boxes so each year she has a different colour scheme then marks the year on the box eg. the last time she used gold was 2002 I think it's coming up again next year lol. So yes she has it perfectly colour coordinated in a different colour every year but now that I have a kiddie it doesn't really bother me
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 2:38pm |
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
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 3:40pm |
My tree is all matching...am feeling bad now  The colour scheme changes every year as my mum and I share deocartions so our colours can change each year. This year I am red, white and silver and Mum is pink and purple ( I had that last year). Only ever have the green trees tho.
I am quite anal and like things all matching. DS got his first decoration last xmas and plan on letting him pick one every year but also plan on getting him his own little tree for his room when he is about 5.
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 4:24pm |
we had to buy a new tree and diarations as our old tree was about 30- years old
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 6:09pm |
Mostly random here, it does match a bit but thats only cos we had no decorations so bought a bulk pack a few years back but the sentimental ones are slowly taking over.
The kids did my parents tree and when we went back round there my Mum had taken it all off and had it all matching. The joys of no kids at home I suppose.
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 6:29pm |
ours is blue and silver  matching decorations
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 6:54pm |
We have random decorations & I buy Alia one each year, this year she can chose her own. I date it as well  & I'll start on Coopers
I would love a perfect tree but that will never happen I guess! We get a living tree...Not usually bought though  This year we will be buying one because DH isn't back home until the 20th.
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 7:12pm |
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.
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Posted: 07 December 2008 at 9:41pm |
I make most of mine. I have old gold and burnt red with white feathers and gold twine this year.
I have a feeling that once bubs is old enough to get those little fingers in the Xmas box that our matching tree days will be over
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