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David In Indy:
And while we're at it, what colors do you use on your tree? I have seen white trees with blue ornaments and lights, white trees with red ornamants and lights, white trees with mulitcolor ornaments and lights, green trees with only one color, and green trees with many colors!  :D

All of them always look very pretty.

I use multicolor lights and ornaments on my tree. I use many twinkle lights (I like my Christmas tree to have LOTS of lights. I have 15 strings of 100 lights for my 7 1/2 foot tree!) and I use both the glass ornaments and wooden ornaments of many shapes and colors. Many of these ornaments are many YEARS old, and they came from many different countries and states. I don't use tinsel on my tree. I tuck shiny ribbon in the tree instead. Last year I used very shiny red, almost metallic (but not quite) type ribbon about 2 inches wide. This year I'm thinking about using blue ribbon. I top my tree with an angel my parents bought in Europe on one of their trips.  :D

Now tell me about your Christmas tree!!  :)

David In Indy:
Oh, and I only allow two strings of lights to twinkle. Each bulb twinkles independently of the others, so they are truly "twinkling" and not flashing on and off (I hate that). But with the other 13 strings burning steadily, the twinkling is barely noticeable. :D

I like to do unusual things with my tree. I have 6 "bird in nest" ornaments I tuck in the branches. They are not even Christams ornaments really. I bought them at a craft store. One is a bluebird in the nest, another is a cardinal in the nest, and I'm not sure what the other birds are. One is purple, and another is light blue. Yellow and pink round out the remaining two birds in the nests.

delalluvia:
I very much like old tradition decorations, so if I celebrated with a Yule tree, the only lights that would look good on it would be single color lights in white or yellow - to imitate candlelight.

David In Indy:

--- Quote from: delalluvia on November 27, 2007, 06:04:38 pm ---I very much like old tradition decorations, so if I celebrated with a Yule tree, the only lights that would look good on it would be single color lights in white or yellow - to imitate candlelight.

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Yes, that would look very much like candlelight, especially if you used mostly yellow, with a little white mixed in. That would look very pretty. :)

I once had a small 4 foot table top tree, and I decorated it in pastel colors (purple, light purple, pale green, beige, dusty rose, etc...) back when these pastel colors were popular; in the 1980's and early '90s I think. I used mostly white lights, and some pink lights too. The lights did not twinkle. I also used some chains of clear glass beads for the "tinsel" and they really made that little tree shimmer. They looked like diamonds and each bead caught the light and threw it around the room.

David In Indy:
Come on all you Christmas people! I know you're out there!!

Take the poll and tell us about your tree and what kinds of lights you use on them!  :D

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