It may be part of my undercurrent OCD, but I’ve always felt that decorating the Christmas tree with every type and color of ornament felt too much. Even as a child, I remember looking at the pictures of color coordinated trees and thinking they were perfect.
When I got married, my mom gifted us the fake tree that is seven feet tall which we had used for many years as a family. The first years, my ex wanted to just put every ornament we had on the tree and we ended up with very colorful trees. It wasn’t until the last few Christmases that he let me do the more coordinated look I like. Upon my divorce, I kept the tree, and we divided up the ornaments we’d collected during our ten year marriage.
These past two years, since my divorce, I was able to convince the family to let me decorate the tree with a color palette base of silver and white with one other color for effect. And the trees have looked amazing! Last year, we went with red as the focal color, and this year’s tree we did in blue. Blue always felt more Christmas for me since winter feels like a blue color for some reason to me.
One of the fun things during this time of year 
is seeing various types of Christmas tree decorations pop up on my social media feeds. I love thematic tress, probably a remnant from my years as a teacher. Trees with dessert themes are too cute, and there’s even a Darth Vader tree that I totally thought would be fun to do. I really considered doing something like that, but it requires a strategic search and purchase of thematic ornaments, so I will need to wait on that idea.
This year, I seem to be fixated on the pictures of trees shaped like dresses.What an exciting and fun idea! To create a Christmas tree shaped like a gown a woman might wear. There are some that I literally would totally put on and wear for the winter festivities. Seriously. As uncomfortable as that would most likely be, they just look so cool. Here are some pictures of my favorites this year.
Of course, the wreaths are another awesome expression of holiday cheer. we don’t have many at our house, but I’ve considered finding some that coordinate with the colors we use. The best bet would be to get some that are just white or silver, and then add removable touches of color each year. Needless to say, this is something I would love to do but will I ever get to it? Still to be seen.
As we go into the holiday celebration of Christmas, I wish everyone a wonderful and joyful time. And here I will leave you with the truth about who actually pulls Santa’s sleigh. Just saying…