Decorating My Christmas Tree

Start with one formerly live Noble Fir tree.  I want a flocked one, because we really can't get one that is very fresh this far south, so the "snow" glues the needles on.  Be sure to trim off a couple of inches from the trunk so it will draw water.  Add very warm sugar water to the tree stand.

I use many strings of multi-colored lights first.  I start at the top and weave in and out from the trunk to the point of the limbs and around and down the tree.

Then I added an equal number of strings of white lights.  They really make the tree shine brightly.  In this picture the lights don't look equally distributed, but they really are.

 Then I added 7 streams of ribbon that when went from top to bottom on the tree.

 

I added the burst at the top, along with the angel that I usually put on top of the tree.  







The burst and the ribbon are new this year, so I decided that angel didn't go well, so I replaced her with this one.

And I added some ornaments.

I added gold satin with a starry sheer as a skirt.

And Cloud and I stood back to see what we had done all day.

Notice the red ornament on the floor; Cloud did that.

The date on the camera is totally wrong--darn it.