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Post by lousweetbabboo on Nov 7, 2006 19:42:38 GMT -5
Do you prefer the smell of a real spruce or Pine, or prefer not to get sap on your hands on set up your artificial tree? We have done both and I have to admit, for my own self, artificial is the way to go. I HATE sap!!!!!
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Post by sara on Nov 7, 2006 19:53:12 GMT -5
I love real trees, as long as they're flocked LOL. I have an artificial now though. Sap isn't what bothers me. It's getting the needles out of the carpet for the next 10 months LOL
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Post by Don on Nov 8, 2006 1:35:54 GMT -5
I love a real tree, but if yall want to visit me in the hospital buy one for me.....LOL I am highly alergic to them...... so i have to do the Artificial thing.... but when i shape it, take a good second glance!
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Post by lisajonathan00 on Nov 8, 2006 11:59:37 GMT -5
I prefer a real one but we never have the money to actually buy one. So my mom bought me an artificial one. The only way people know it is fake is cause it dont smell yummy.
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Post by earthgifts on Nov 12, 2006 9:23:05 GMT -5
A real tree or none at all!  |
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Post by lousweetbabboo on Nov 12, 2006 11:07:43 GMT -5
Can't you buy stuff to spray on it to make it smell like a real tree? I thought you could. We have a good quality artificial tree, so it looks really pretty anyway.
Don, Morgan used to be really allergic to pine sap and wildflower juice (it was hard telling her not to pick flowers!). She hasn't handled either in forever, so I don't know whether she would still have a reaction or not.
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Post by Don on Nov 12, 2006 11:37:44 GMT -5
I tried it a couple of years ago...... There is now way i can even deal with the smell of the fresh pine.... it clogs my sinuses, makes me gag, and my eyes water up....... i look like i just got hit with the perverbial mack truck.....
even with the spray.
i bought some of the at home america scentennial waffle bars from the fall and holiday catalog... holiday memories, one of the bars in it is called spruce....... big mistake...LOL but only because for me i just leave the spruce out and i am fine with the other 2......
pine is not good for me at all.... but we spent way big amounts of money on a fake tree and when its shaped out, you can't even tell its fake. i have pics i may have to post it. in fact i think i will.
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Post by Don on Nov 12, 2006 11:48:24 GMT -5
Here is the tree....  |
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Post by sara on Nov 12, 2006 13:38:10 GMT -5
Gorgeous tree Don~ is it already up for this year?  ? |
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Post by Don on Nov 12, 2006 23:27:09 GMT -5
That was from july when i did my home for my christmas in july open house. But i wanted to prove my point about fake trees...... That was a very simple and quick shaping to the tree, and very few ornaments.... we didn't have but what i had for decorating a tree and my other tree that i used was a six footer and that was what my decorations were enough for. not a 8 foot tree....LOL
So its a little sparce and i wil post a fresh pic on the 24th when i am done with this years... i will be up most of the night putting it up and decorating the house inside... then on saturday i am gonna do the outside!! YAY iwill share my decor with you all!
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Post by sara on Nov 13, 2006 9:44:15 GMT -5
lol - whew!!! I thought you were really ahead of the game. I'll put my tree up the day after Thanksgiving. I bought a fiber optic tree a couple of years ago, and I LOVE it. It looks pretty real (but you can tell it's fake due to the lighting). It does make a pretty tree though!!
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Post by Don on Nov 13, 2006 12:13:28 GMT -5
I can't wait to get my tree back out and all the boxes and get started... I have thought about setting it all up in a corner of the other bedroom, but my brother would have kittens over it. So i didn't.
I love decorating for christmas. Its one of my favorite things to do.... and the inside will be done on thanksgiving night!!! Then while my roomie is shopping on friday the outside will get done!
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Post by sara on Nov 13, 2006 15:27:29 GMT -5
I don't decorate the outside .... physically impossible LOL. I'd have to re-wire the house to support the outside lights (yes, this house is OLLDD and hasn't been updated in forever). But Thanksgiving weekend is our traditional "Decorate for Christmas" weekend. We traditionally take down the decorations the weekend after New Year's.
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Post by lousweetbabboo on Nov 13, 2006 15:45:12 GMT -5
We decorate Thanksgiving weekend too, which is another reason artificial is good for us.
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Post by lisajonathan00 on Nov 17, 2006 2:13:17 GMT -5
I normally wait till a few days after Thanksgiving because I go shoping galore on black friday and have to wrap up the presents so I will put my tree up and do the rest of the decorating when I finish wrapping which use to be done that day till 2005 when my son was up and running. LOl but now it is up normally by sun.
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Post by sara on Nov 17, 2006 12:30:49 GMT -5
There is not enough money on the face of this earth to get me to go out and shop on Black Friday .... not even in this little town!!!  |
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Post by lousweetbabboo on Nov 17, 2006 21:25:29 GMT -5
I got up this morning to the family putting the tree up! The house is all decorated,lol! It looks great, it's a blue Christmas at our house this year!
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Post by Don on Nov 18, 2006 2:07:18 GMT -5
Here are some of my deffinitions for black friday......
BLACK FRIDAY
1. A Day for you to shop From about 4 in the morning til about 10 in the morining at walmart, all the while worrying that you will get beat up over that must have TMX elmo, Playstation 3, or the latest hot toy.
2. A direct sellers dream open house date. Have an open house, cash and carry sale, or a holiday stop and shop! People like to shop from their feet now that they have been beaten and trampled by an angry mob over that dang elmo.
Pretty good explanation?
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Post by Don on Nov 18, 2006 2:11:09 GMT -5
A blue christmas? Too bad i don't have my pics from 2 years ago....LOL I had a white tree with silver and blue glass ornaments, blue and silver garland, blue and clear lights, blue icicles, and the wreath that i made to match...... do you know how hard it was to find a white pine wreath....LOL It was absolutely gorgeous! Everything was white pine including the garland that i used above doors and on the outside! I really wish I had a picture of it. I am a master at the christmas decorating~ Not to toot my own horn, I will take some pics this year and share! |
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Post by sara on Nov 18, 2006 14:06:21 GMT -5
My tree is that optical light one (lovely actually), and my decorations are all Cowboys and Indians Maybe I'll add garland this year (or next ROFL). I want a garland made from red bandana material But ... I have to work on a star for the top yet. I want my star made out of barbed wire (or as us Texans say -- barbwahr) |
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Post by Don on Nov 18, 2006 14:51:16 GMT -5
sounds like its time to go to tractor supply...LOL Buy some barbwire and make one...LOL
Get the bandanas and make it yourself. Should be really easy to make. tie them end to end on the corners. that way they will roll and hang into triangles... (you could even cut them so that you get them to go further and less money.
just a thought.
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Post by sara on Nov 18, 2006 15:28:06 GMT -5
OH heck -- they have bandana material by the bolt (yardage) rather than using bandanas LOL. I've made most of the ornaments myself. I'm quite the crafty little thang  The only prob with going to the farm/ranch supply is they want me to buy a whole roll of barbed wire. I only need 1' or less LOLOL. |
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Post by Don on Nov 18, 2006 18:26:31 GMT -5
Really, they sell it here by the foot.. or is it yard?
I guess the bandana material would do the trick! LOL Funny thing is..... I would have never thought to do the cowboys and indians theme for a christmas tree.....
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Post by sara on Nov 18, 2006 20:17:35 GMT -5
LOL in material stores it's by the yard.
The first year I started doing this, I didn't have any decorations for the theme, and didn't have a lot of money. I bought some styrofoam balls from Hobby Lobby and a yard or so of bandana material. Cut the material into strips with pinking shears, dipped it in glue and wrapped to make bandana balls for the tree. Then I made bows from the rest of the material and put that on the trees. It still needed something (I didn't have any lights then) so I bought a jar of Slim Jims and hung them on the tree LOL.
I'd use some of that still, but it was over 15 years ago and those didn't survive that long. I have nicer ornaments now .... I buy 1 or 2 a year and they've added up, or make 1 and buy one .....
Now I'm working on garlands and a star or something for a tree topper. I do have a couple of my snowflakes on there, they kinda' go with the theme (in an abstract way LOL).
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Post by sara on Nov 18, 2006 20:19:59 GMT -5
My Santa that I display is a cowboy santa .... my nativity is sort of like those little precious moments kids (but it's not) and are indians. The nativity is in a teepee |
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