I have to say, I liked the way the tree looked this year.
The new ornaments look great on it, and I used tinsel on it instead of garland. It didn't take as long as I thought it would to decorate it. I also have three great sets of lights on it, the majority of the lights are steady-burning, but then every few bulbs is a flashing one, which is a combo I like. I don't like all of the lights blinking, but I like some sort of 'motion' on the tree, so the flashing lights give me that.