My Christmas Tree

its good that you see it as funny!!!i have heard about black dress ,etc but a black tree??kudus to you for being so innovative!!!

[b]You should know--you bought it for me--AND decorated it! The tree is green, but it might as well be black, since you blanketed it with poinsettias, which--with the lights shining through their gauzy brachia--makes the entire tree look fairy pink! Don't get me wrong, I love it, but...a pink tree? I have a query re your tree, though. I realize Austin has a plethora of specialty shops that cater to burnt-out hippies, Wiccans & other colorful "fringe" populations, but what particular bastion of bizarreness carries black Christmas trees?? Or, did the folks who live near UT campus who hand paint their neighborhood's incredible "Christmas" display (remember the "Santa" made from an anatomy class' skeleton? Or the decorated Harley hog?) hold a garage sale? I'm just sayin'... Maggiepie STALKERS WILL BE EATEN BY AN ATTACK CAT!___^..^

No, i don't have a tree up. don't guess i will. Haven't put one up in years. Hope u enjoy yours.

I always had live trees until my youngest son was diagnosed with many allergies, evergreen trees included. So, I went out and bought a nice fake tree, 6 1/2 feet tall. It looked real, as long as you didn't get too close. LOL Oh, it was green. After my son was finished with his five years of allergy shots and was actually healthier than I am, I still used the fake tree because, by that time, I couldn't afford to buy a real tree every year. For the past five years, though, we've had a real tree. There really is nothing like the smell of pine in the house at Christmastime. There are fake pine scents in cans but they don't smell like the real thing. I've seen all colors of fake trees. To each his (or her) own, I say. It's not the tree we're celebrating on Christmas day so it doesn't matter what color tree you have or even whether or not you have a tree at all. The spirit of Christmas is what is important, not the decorations. Still, I like having a real tree each year. Apparently, I'm slightly allergic to them myself because I'll start coughing if I sit near the tree for any length of time. I've learned to avoid that by sitting away from it. It works! Last year, my husband lost his job two weeks before Christmas. We were definitely not in the mood to celebrate anything and couldn't afford to spend money on a tree so we didn't get one. But, that depressed me even more so I pulled out a fiber-optic tree that I inherited from my mother and put it up. It was only about two feet tall but it did cheer me up some. This year is better so we'll be buying a real tree. I hope to get it within the next 2 weeks. I don't like putting the tree up until the week before Christmas, though, because they dry out so fast, no matter how much you water them. I use one of those huge plastic bags underneath it to catch most of the fallen needles and to pull up over the tree when it's time to take it outside and that does help quite a lot! Once you get your problem fixed and can post the picture of your tree, I'd LOVE to see it!

The only tree at our house is about 3 feet tall, silver with large balls that change colors. It was a gift from a friend who is now deceased. It is the only Christmas decoration that my husband wants. I did an old fashioned green tree with ornaments collected during the years as long as there was a chance that one of the kids might come for Christmas but gave up last year and didn't put one up. The tree went in the garbage, but the ornaments are packed away in the storage shed. Maybe one day one of the grandchildren will call and announce that they will be here for Christmas. Then I'll have an excuse to buy a tree and dig out those ornaments. It won't be this year, though. The only one old enough to do that will still be in Marine boot camp. She doesn't graduate until Jan 8th.

yeah already set up my christmas tree since november. im just so happy coz this is my first christmas with my baby boy so i bought my first christmas tree and decorated it with 4 different colors, blue,red,gold and silver..my sister and cousin help me in buying and choosing the decorations and of course to set it up. But I can't fully enjoy its beauty coz my son is always pulling the balls and even the flowers as long as he can reach so i have to put up the decorations and leave the lower part free. Can you imagine that? no decorations on the lower part of the tree? hahahaha.. advance merry christmas to all

well I will look for the picture. not got tree up yest will go up next week as daughter has people coming in Sat. for Avon party then the tree goes up after . got the town up and all the outside done that is the biggest projects done!

Mine is a genuine fake tree and little. There are more ornaments on it than there is tree and it doesn't go up till a few days before the day. I get the grandkids to do it then all I have to do is put it all away again. Yours is ....erm Interesting?

Right..took you an hour to put it up but would only take the cats minutes to help take it down. lol Haven't put mine up yet. I'm holding out for a real tree this year in hopes of finding the one I want. If not, the 3' artificial will go up instead.

I have a Norfolk Pine that'll have to do right now. Every now and then it gives off a pine smell, too. But it's fairly scraggly (I rescued it from someone's garbage two summers ago) so it won't support too many ornaments. I do have a string of lights around the pot, though.

um..no,i actually need to buy a new one. it's one of those 1970's multi part wire base ones,and it reeks of dust at this point.time to go. it also has a permanent bend in the trunk from 6 very bad kitties who all climbed at once.

Last year it was just me and my dog for Xmas so I had a small artificial tree. First time in forever that I've not had a real tree and like your roomie, I missed the smell...... But this year the hubs will be home so we will have a real tree. In fact, he was home this weekend for his days off and we bought a tree. It's still wrapped and frozen on the front porch and in a couple of weeks I'll bring it in the house, unwrap the webbing around it and pot it so it can relax and thaw out and get it decorated. I can hardly wait. I really missed not having one last year............ I like the sound of yours though Elic. A black tree! Too cool. And red is the 'in' color this year so you be stylin' now you be. lol

We usually put up a Christmas tree because our daughter loves it and for her it is a real event to decorate it with her Dad. I don’t know how we’ll go this year because our cats have never bothered with the tree being older felines and all, but this year we have a kitten who is only 2 and a half months old and very, very active so what do you think our chances of a small cat hanging off the Christmas tree? Yep, you guessed it...Very high!

:) Nice... the ones who like to feel the Christmas athmosphere longer started already with the Christmas tree... i am not hurry up...i have enough time for decorations... but my mom start already with the outside decorations...so i think we will also make the Christmas tree verry soon...but i will feel takes so long until the Santa will come :( maybe i will hurry him also...:)

My Christmas tree is black. It's about two feet tall. It was a Halloween decoration, but I bought it for half off. It has twisted "branches". I couldn't afford a small pink one, so I made my own little unique tree. I got gold, silver, and red glitter glue and painted it all around the tree. It's still black, but it has a lot of sparkle! And I just hang my regular ornaments on it. It won't win any contests, but I'm proud of it.

I usually have my tree up by now but I've been so darned busy with so many lose ends that I'm trying to catch up. I even have pages of mylot discussions to respond to but haven't because I needed to catch up with my own and then I can do the others, I'm caught up with mine now and am doing as much as I can lol Sheesh, there's just not enough hours in a day.... or should I say, there's not enough energy for us to contain a day! lol I wonder what makes your cats bother your tree because my cats don't bother mine much. I did have one climb up it one time and that was it. We have an artificial tree too, wouldn't have any other kind, too dangerous for my comfort. Living through 5 fires in my life so far (knock on wood!) I don't take any chances these days.

Really? Best Response mark? Again?? She LIKES me! She really LIKES me! Thanks, Elic! Maggiepie “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” ~ James Madison

Hi Elic, My tree is just a normal green but I have not put it up yet, I will do soon, just have not had that much time or energy to do it. Tamara

A black tree? I have never seen it sold at my place! Red and black are quite matching colors. I have put up the Christmas tree and like you, have to keep it in the corner near the plug and also to keep the cats away from passing by the area. However, it seems that the cats have noticed about it and now I may have to 're-do' the tree a few days before Christmas. Oh yup, the lights are supposed to be green, red, blue and yellow, but now after three years of using the same lights, they have changed into yellow and white!! Well, still perfect for the 'green' tree with gold and red ornaments!

Black and red- that sounds pretty cool. I always wanted to have one of those fake white trees, and but a bunch of pink, blue, purple and yellow ornaments on it. :D But my family has a normal-color fake tree that's been used year after year. It's not that big, and it's not that nice, but it serves the job, lol.