Life is Funny

One of the beautiful things about holiday or Christmas trees, is that you never will find two of them that look alike. It’s such a pleasure to see the different tree decorations. All trees look nice, but some of them really stand out more than others.

You can also tell how much time someone has spent decorating a tree. For those that don’t care, we’ve all seen the tree with some garland on it, a bunch of red & blue bulb ornaments, some tinsel, a star, and that’s it..

That is a very plain way of decorating a Christmas tree.

However, there are little things you can do to really dress up your holiday tree. One thing to note, is that while uniformity is important for the Christmas lights you put on it — NOT SO for the ornaments and decorations!

For instance, putting the odd candy cane on your tree’s branches looks nice. Covering the tree in candy canes from top to bottom in an even spread, ruins in the look. This is an example where “less” becomes MORE in the end. Carefully choosing which items to place, where you place them, and how often you place them, quickly shows if you’re an amateur or a pro…

Having a nice variety of tree ornaments looks really nice. Things like monogrammed knitted decorations. Or a little teddybear holding a small “Merry Christmas” sign. May it worthwhile for someone to step up close to your tree and search around looking at all the little things you’ve added.

If you can stand 10 feet from a tree, glance at it from top to bottom in 3 seconds and think you’ve taken it all in, then in my opinion, the tree is very simplified and the loving care that should go into it, is just not there.

Now, I am not suggesting that you go out and spend $300 to $500 worth of expensive ornaments to decorate your tree. Instead, since we are going to be decorating a tree every year that we’re still alive, this gives you a great opportunity to accumulate things over time.

Make it a point to buy 1 or 2 really nice ornaments every year. Or better yet, if you have children, and they want to buy you something for $5 or $10 as a gift to mom and dad, let them pick out an ornament to buy for the tree. After the kids grow up and leave home, the ornaments will still be there, and the special meaning that they have will be present every Christmas whether they are home for the holidays or not.

About 15 years ago, we received a monogrammed glass bulb, with our company name on it from a customer who offered us a thank you gift once. We still have that decoration and every year we hang it on our tree, because it was given to us as a gift of kindess, and it was unexpected and very appreciated.

If you really think about what a Christmas tree represents, and how much love, kindness and caring it is suppose to encourage, then I ask you.

WHY DO PEOPLE BUY A BOX OF “35″ CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENTS.. and stick them on it, willy-nilly without having any special thought to it?

The idea is not to just decorate a tree.

The idea is to decorate a tree, from the heart, put something special into it, (and on it).. stand back, and look at all the little things that together, make a wonderful tree.

Box of 35 ornament bulbs? Not for my tree thank you.

By the way, no matter what, I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas!