Christmas Tree Tour - Part 3

The third tree is what started out as the winter tree.. it is in our sunroom and changes year to year but is always winter based.  A good friend of mine gave me the puffy white snowballs and the snowball garland.  My grandmother crocheted all the snowflakes that I use on this tree.  So the basis of the tree are these snowy elements.  What happens then changes year to year.  The tree has taken on a retro feel this year.  I used red garland that was on my Christmas tree growing up circa 1960's.  So, this year it's a red and silver retro winter tree!

Christmas Tree Tour - Part two of eight...
This is the tree in the library - I used anything I could find in cream... stoneware, birdcages, all the cream colored ornaments from our collection along with some of my scarves, a few pearl necklaces and some vintage wedding photos.  I made garland out of wire and old buttons... cute and easy to do!  I topped it with a piece of wood molding and a tarnished crown.

A little video my son whipped up today... he is amazing!

Joyeux Noel

OK... Christmas tree tour time!  Let's start with my office {since I'm looking at it}... the tree I call Joyeux Noel.  I love this tree in all it's black and white loveliness!  The garlands are black boas and the ornaments a mixture of black {it's not easy to find black Christmas ornaments either} and vintage silver.... with a few Eiffel Towers thrown in for good measure!

Tis the season to be busy....  and we have been busy!  I have been decorating Christmas trees.  One of my {many} weaknesses is Christmas ornaments.  I have collected them all my life starting with the ones my mother gave me every year as a child.  These were special and carefully dated by her, inconspicuously somewhere on the ornament.  Every year we added another like this little gem from 1967.

We also have made a lot of ornaments over the years... everything from my Mom's wooden Sea Birds, made when she was living on the Outer Banks of North Carolina...

to my felt and sequin beauties made in the 1970's,

But more about all that later.....

Because of this love of Christmas ornaments, I usually decorate more than one tree.. in fact, some years I have decorated as many as 12.. yes.. a little over the edge.  This year, we have 9.  Seven are at our city house and two up at the lake.  Would you like a tour?  We'll have to spread it over a few days... I have a new job that is keeping me busy!!  We'll start tomorrow.
Susan