Your Christmas Tree and or decorations
 

Post em if you got em.

Kiss my Xmas ass :D:

that's in your garden?

Yeah, the garden in my ass. :rolleyes:

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/7...impyyt0zd0.gif

:rolleyes:

None of these are my trees. This is the Waiting Room in Kansas City's Union Station, all decormatated up for the season, with some chairs and stuff thrown in for some meeting of obviously wealthy women who wore a lot of furs and such shortly before I took this pic Wednesday night.

WOW! :cool:

You have one line of text, and you have eleven lines of location/title/shit.

Dude, what the hell. Fucking change your location. It's been seriously pissing me off, its way too fucking long.

My youngest teen and our tree before decorations.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19.../IMG_53072.jpg

very nice!

Suggest you don't EVAH fucking moan about people not following "posting directions" in "your" threads again. Just sayin'. You seems to enjoy telling people to piss off out of your threads and yet have no compunction about shitting in other people's. Sorry, Merc, just something that apparently needed spelling out, even though this may not be the best example of the "crime".

Happy whatever, I'll post my tree later when I've finished it.

Nice tree Merc.

With the redeye and the smile and pose, I had to resist the temptation to make a Satan's Cheerleaders joke.


Something like:

Give me an L and a U and a C........!:p

Happy Holidays:xmashat:

My tree just fell over and smashed a load of baubles/glass balls. Instant karma?

Bwahahahaha

Never mind the tree, rich, what about the daughter? :eek: of course, I can say that with an outside chance of not getting walloped by Merc, being a married mother of 3 and all......

Your Christmas Tree
 

It just doesn't photograph as pretty as it looks in real life...


http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o...r/P1011672.jpg

so, merc....you put the topper on before you do the lights and ornaments???

pragmatic....but....laaaaame.

Looks to me like the lights are on there.... just not on.

Psst, look at the tree thru the window

We were talking about Merc's tree.

Well, ask an assholeish question, get an assholeish answer. :p

That's cuz you wish you were that creative. :D

Dude, it is 9 feet tall and we always struggle to put on the lights and topper. So this year we put on the lights, the topper, and the base outside while the wife stood on the front steps. It was eaiser for her to reach, she is 5'2" and we had plenty of room to manuver the tangle of lights around the tree.

Post disaster:

Very Nice!! Wife and kids are still working on decorations, I will post the finished product in a few days.

Thanks. We like lots of plain miniature glass balls, lots of tiny lights and silver tinsel and lametta. No fancy stylish stuff and no kid-creations (when I can get away with it :lol:) but very very sparkly :D BTW the ceramic sun and swirly orange thing are two of my pieces.

Ah, beauty and brains too. No, not you.

@Monster... I like your boiling octopus.

Thanks bruce, we'd been looking fo a name for that one.

The other one is called the Flaming Dooberry: (also seen Here)

Ya' know, you mighit think I'm just a creepy pediovoyeur by now, but she's real perdy. :D

Not at all, she is beautiful. Just don't try to contact her. :D

:lol2:
See what startin those "other threads" got ya Drax?

This is our's

I think it looks pretty great, but it does kind of throw me for a loop what with all the tropicals right there outside the window.

Beautiful Be-bop.

Those are really cool, monster. I like how you propped Flaming Dooberry on some feet.

MIGHT??

thanks (they are attached)

I tend to be a geometric hand-builder, so these pieces were me challenging myself to be more -erm- freeform? the professional-looking photo of the dooberry is actually used to advertise the ceramics program :blush:

We still haven't gotten our tree yet.

Monster, I loooove the sun! Great work!

I thought they were probably attached, monster. Do you enjoy handbuilding more than wheel throwing? When I was younger I studied ceramics briefly in college. I loved handbuilding...more than wheel throwing. I couldn't understand what all the fuss was about with the wheel. Thats pretty neat that your piece is used as an example for advertisement.

Christmas Tree
 

That's why they call it an Arizona Room...Lots of glass, skylights and exposure on the north side of the house. In Florida, they call it a Florida room. I don't know why.:D

We bought one Sunday. My parents waited for the chicks to return to the nest to make it a family affair. Strung with popcorn too! Wwe're so cheesy.

Popcorn? Cool!
I did popcorn and cranberries for the tree and garlands around the room once.



ONCE! I swore never to string popcorn again.

Done. This years theme, all hand made ornaments, including stuff from the kids when they were younger.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19.../IMG_53272.jpg

I like that tree, looks old-fashioned.

When I hear "old fashioned tree" it reminds me of the year I lived in Germany. Our German neighbors had real candles on their tree. I was astounded, because it's such a fire hazard. They have these little candle holders that clip to the branches and hold special little candles very securely. The trees there were thinner than you see here, so there were plenty of spots where you could clip a candle without lighting the branches above it on fire.

I just did a quick Google image search and turned up this picture of a German tree with real candles. You can tell they are real flames, because they all point up, even when the candles are crooked. You'd think there would be more fires, but they don't leave the trees unattended.

Wow, even if you were standing right there, if the tree went up in flames there isn't much you could do besides grab the gifts.
I mean you could probably stop the house from burning down, but the tree and that room would be very messy.

I have a set of those clips and candles. I used to put them on the tree but never lit them.

It's great when you're sitting around watching those Christmas classics.

This is about the extent of ours this year
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2248/...4f85fb7663.jpg
With 2 additions From a Friend !!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2316/...490b6ffc_o.jpg

My fairy/angel has a real candle. Not lit, mostly.

The thing is, when you only put the tree up on Christmas Eve (as per tradition in a lot of Europe), it's generally still very fresh and wet, so not a huge fire hazard. And, as pointed out, they are pretty sparse. Also, the candles are pretty small and were they to fall, the chances of them staying alight are not huge. But still..... :eek: :lol:

Great pics everyone! :santa:

I put pics of our tree and some choice ornaments in a Picasa album:

http://picasaweb.google.com/sstarke/Christmas2007

Here's the tree itself for those who don't like to click :)

Nice ornaments, gtown.

Finally got around to taking one of ours.

Tree, from the top of the stairs so it's a weird perspective. Also the ceiling is at an angle. The tree is 8 ft.

http://cellar.org/2007/2007tree.jpg

House. You can't see how the bottom row twinkles at odd programmable intervals. Note above tree in the window:

http://cellar.org/2007/2007haus.jpg

That's the way to confuse the neighbors.

Wow, those are really nice displays UT!

(We didn't end up getting a tree this year :( )

There's still time. I bet they're about $2 at Lowes now. Or just cruise the streets -someone's probably already thrown one out by now that you could squeak a few more days out of!

(great English there, huh? :rolleyes:)

With and without flash:

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why do the lights look like they only go up the middle of the tree. Interesting way to do it.

Obviously it would look better at night, but now is when I have free time, so...

I just like the look. Plus, it casts a cool shadow. Plus, it leaves the branches available for ornaments, and keeps the wires invisible.