Oh Zombie Tree, Oh Zombie Tree

[EvilEmpryss]

Edit: Though I do recall, once in college I decorated a potted plant of some type or another with miniature angel ornaments. I did it again with my unkillable plant before we got cats, but I'm too afraid that they'll try to eat the angels now.

If you can't get your cats to leave the ornaments alone, give them something to enjoy: My family used to make salt dough ornaments, and the cats would sit around the tree like cows around a salt lick. The dough has nothing harmful in it (being mostly salt, flour, and water baked until hard), and you can use cookie cutters to make them into pretty christmas shapes. Just remember to either bake a metal ornament hook into the back of the shape or make a hole at the top before you bake it so you can string it on a ribbon. If you want color, use food coloring as a wash either before or after baking (we used to do it after, with all the kids sitting around with glasses of watercolors painting ornaments to give as gifts). Oh, the best part is that if the kitties knock the salt dough ornaments off the tree, they won't send shards of glass everywhere!

[Kogarashi]

You mean the needles that you're still vacuuming up on the Fourth?

Them's the ones.

I think it's funny that everyone is talking about how Fake trees last forever, just because my mother announced a moment ago she wants a new Christmas tree. hehe irony

Our first tree was one of the ones with the color-coded branches too. I think I was also about 13 at the time. My parents had to finally replace it because we made the mistake of putting tinsel (the loose stuff, not the garland) on it a few years in a row, and that stuff doesn't come off.

As for Hubby and I, we only plan on replacing our current tree (attached branches, pre-lit) if it breaks, or if they finally start selling pre-lit trees with LEDs instead of incandescent lights near us. I don't mind the somewhat artificial look to our tree since I near bury the thing in ornaments anyway, and if I want the pine smell, I'll either find candles or make/buy some spruce essential oil ornaments for the tree.

[Jester]

My Christmas tree:




I told y'all....it ain't Christmas time for me without a Christmas cactus!