It’s that time of year again when Christmas is near,
when the Christmas tree comes out of the box
along with the trimmings.
Now, how do we decorate the tree again?
Tell me ‘coz I forgot.
Step 1: Assemble the Tree
Unless you’ll be using a real tree, you would normally have to assemble the tree first. You’d start with the base and then insert the trunks by parts. You’d then open up the branches and the leaves.
Christmas trees nowadays come in all sorts of colours and styles. This one is a frosted style, with patches of snow covering the entire tree. There are also snow covered pinecones on the leaves. Whoo! I think I need to get my parka already!
Step 2: Put in the Christmas Lights
Gone are the old style Christmas lights where the bulbs are inserted into a socket and pushed into yet another socket connected to the wire. (I should know, I used to be that girl selling Christmas light bulbs at a peso apiece). In its place are these rice LED lights that are more durable (and I think disposable once broken). You can connect sets of these together to form the length you need.
I started at the bottom, which is where the wall socket is. I wrapped it around the tree, laying the wires on the branches. I worked my way up to the top, connecting more sets as I went.
Step 3: Add in the Trimmings
I started with these bunches of red flowers. I scattered them all around the tree, making sure not to overdo it. I wouldn’t want the frosted tree to lose its identity.
I then added the stems to add some dimension to the tree’s basic triangular shape.
Next came the ornaments.
A closer look at these yummy ornaments!
Can you tell that I have a sweet tooth?
Finally, this boy added in the Christmas Balls.
Ta-da! How does it look?
Decorating Tips
- Come up with a theme (Santa Claus, kiddie, floral, animals, instruments, etc.) or a color motif (single color or 2-tone) to build your design on. This will narrow down your search when you’re out shopping.
- Choose Christmas lights with wire colors that matches your tree. It’s awfully hard to camouflage those unsightly wires otherwise.
- While decorating, constantly take a step back (so you can see the whole thing) and survey your work. If something seems wrong, correct it immediately.
- Don’t just focus on the front part. I was so intent on making the front part of the tree look nice that when I stepped to the sides, I saw that those were so bare. Yikes!
- Get ideas from mall/establishment displays. It never hurts to incorporate some of those inspirations into your own masterpiece.
what a beautiful christmas tree! I hope we still have the space to put up one though. I hope next year we’ll be in our own house. 🙂
Thanks! 🙂 Aabangan ko yang post mo on your new house next year (para matuloy!) 😀
Wow! Ang ganda ng Christmas Tree nyo.. #Inggitmuch.. Hindi pa kami nakakapag set-up ng Christmas Tree, maybe on Saturday. I’m so excited kasi 1st Christmas ni Rhian to so I want to make it more memorable.
Thanks Rackell! 🙂 Last year, I decorated with stuffed toys, para kiddie look hehehe.
Nice tree! 🙂 where do you buy your ornaments?
Thanks Jac 🙂 These were from Our Home 🙂
What a beautiful tree! I love the frosted look. I am actually thinking of a white Christmas theme this year and the colors in my mind are white and gold mostly. Hope will be able to pull it off.
Thanks! 🙂 gold is such a nice color. I’d love to see the outcome 🙂
Wow! What a beautiful Christmas tree! I admire your talent of designing a tree. I love putiting up our Christmas tree too but I’m not creative enough to come up with a tree as beautiful as yours. Also, nakakahiya man aminin, this was actually the first time I learned that you should put the lights first before the ornaments. I always used to do it the other way around. Kaya pala hirap ako. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks! 🙂 I suppose pwede din after the ornaments yung lights but I wanted to see kaagad kasi how it looks like when lighted up and then I build from there. 🙂
Love your tree 😀 I haven’t put up my tree yet and I am still deciding if I will be putting it up this year or not since I usually spend the holidays back home in Baguio… And I do the same, too. I put in the lights first before the ornaments and I try to hide the wires as much as possible but not entirely pushing the lights into the depths of the tree… 😀
Ahh, oo nga. It’s actually tiresome to put up a tree, most especially when it’s time to put it down again hehe.
I love the way you design your christmas.tree. Thanks for the tips. it really gives mean idea.
Thanks! 🙂 hope to see your decorated tree also 🙂
We also choose a theme every year. Last year, we had gold and silver. I want that red and gold, too, but I want your Christmas tree more! Haha!
That’s a beautiful tree! Thanks for the tips! Planning on buying more decors and Christmas lights because are little one is requesting for lights
I like your frosty Christmas tree and yummy ornaments, our tree is not up yet maybe last week of November. I don’t usually change my theme, reuse lang lahat. #tipid
Wow! So pretty ha. I love the color motif plus the tree is so sosyal! Snow nalang talaga kulang. I’m still not sure if I’ll out up a tree since we’ll soend Christmas on my mom’s place naman and accident prome din with my little kulit toddler
Thanks! 🙂
So beautifully red! We have ours blue naman!
sooo0o0 lovely 🙂 Iba na talaga pag may art skills, wala ako kasi niyan 🙁 ang ganda ng creativity mo mommy. What more sa house decorations, merry looking ang Christmas diyan sa inyo mommy.