![]() ![]() I have boys- they like that sort of thing. The tree looks different each year and we don’t have to carefully wrap each ornament as we put it away. Instead, when we’re done with the tree we remove the lights, chop it up and burn it in the fireplace, snowflakes and all. Sometimes we stick them right to a branch and other times we tie a loop of thread on the snowflakes so they dangle from the branches. The little ones can’t cut the snowflakes yet, but they love finding branches to hang them on. We all enjoy sitting around the table, telling stories and jokes and creating new patterns. We found some really cool snowflake patterns and figured out how to fold the paper so we could get 6 points (which is what real snowflakes have). We got rid of our 6 boxes of Christmas decor (Now we have 1). What a lot of work it was! And each child had their own special ornaments, and if I had neglected to mark them, there would be fights (“No! I had the snowman with the red scarf! You had the one with the green!”) ![]() We came to this tradition after many years of saving ornaments and hauling out boxes and boxes of them. Then we sit around the table, share our 2 pairs of scissors and cut out paper snowflakes to hang on the tree. ( The large bulbs that got so hot one could melt tinsel on the bulbs. They are multicolored and are the closest I could find to the size I grew up with. ![]() We use 2 different sized lights- large globes and small globes. Then we make the trek home and get dripped on as the snow melts off the branches while we try to get the tree into the tree stand.Ī day or two later we spend an evening decorating the tree. Meanwhile, I wander in the semi-quiet and admire animal tracks and snow covered fir trees. Most years there is snow, in which all the males proceed to have a snowball fight and white wash the teenagers who for some reason, seem to beg for it. It’s always so still and beautiful, well, until we get there. It’s about an hour drive up to the mountain, we always go with our second family (very good friends) and normally we’re the only ones there. That means hiking up in the mountains and finding the perfect tree: I like them sparse (or minimal as my kids say), not too tall and more on the skinny side. No matching baubles insight.Our first Christmas tradition is getting a tree. I decided that when I grew up my Christmas tree was going to be full of homemade decorations and a riot of colour. Or if we did, my mum would carefully rearrange the ornaments when we weren’t looking. Growing up my mum would have themed orderly decorations for the Christmas tree, the kids weren’t allowed to decorate it. This isn’t a one-off, I do tend to decorate my Christmas trees like this every year. It looks like it was dressed by a toddler on a sugar high after eating a tube of smarties. I have to admit I went a bit overboard with the decorating of this tree. There are plenty of places to hang them, and they don’t get lost amongst green foliage. This rustic Christmas tree is so sparse and bare it’s perfect for showing off your homemade Christmas ornaments. This year I made a wire rustic Christmas tree from old lampshades. In the meantime every year I love to make an upcycled and repurposed alternative Christmas tree. Upcycled Lampshades Into A Rustic Christmas Tree I think if I lived in a really big spacious house with a cleaner to hoover up the dropped needles, I might soften my stance against real Christmas trees. With five adults and a dog, space can be a bit tight in my house. Not so much their height but their girth. I have tried non-needle shedding pine trees but they still shed their needles.Īnother thing I’m not keen on with real Christmas trees is the space the take-up. That’s not totally true, I do like real Christmas trees. I have a confession to make! I don’t like real Christmas trees that’s why I made a rustic Christmas tree! ![]()
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