18 December 2020 Photo Hunt - Tree

Oooh, tree is the word this week.  Once more I'm linking up with Hawthorn so click here to return to see the other contributors.

It's the time of year for Christmas trees.  As a child my mother would have a real tree and decorating it was her job.

Roll on the years when I did not live at home and I never had a Christmas tree.  Either there was not the space for one or I found the cost too high for only a few weeks.  Many years ago my sister-in-law gifted me the cutest little tree with 12 miniature decorations.

Here it is, just over 12" high.

It comes out every year.

Some of the decorations feature little Teddy bears, so cute.

Roll on a few more years and we'd been in this house for about 20 months when a few people said I did have the room for a Christmas tree.  But I did not want an artificial one (no easy place to store it afterwards) and a real one, even if I put it in a pot and kept it for the following year, was not feasible as the tree's location is upstairs and I didn't fancy getting it up the stairs......  so I decided to make my own tree, an alternative but still joyful tree.  Yarn bombing events I'd seen on-line and locally got me thinking so here is the story of my tree.

It's November 2016 now.

First find my stick! Then carry it

back from the old house to this house

and noticing people giving me funny looks as I did this!

One of my dearest friends says I'm bonkers.....

Once home, I smuggled it into the house without Beloved seeing it and ......

My original plan was to stand it here next

to where I often sit but I felt this was not 

the ideal location so I moved on to 

preparing it while pondering where to 

display it.

I raided all my yarn stash and found bright, multicoloured

yarns and started to yarn bomb the branches.  I was not

spotted doing this in the small bedroom/my craft room!

I used bottle green for the main stem.

I ran some PVA glue down for a few inches and then wound the

yarn around; trying to support the stick as I did this was a

challenge and, yes, I found I had glue on my fingers and

occasionally my clothes.....

Here it is today, well the other week when we had a bit of snow!

I have bright red lights on it and it is decorated with a mixture

of shop bought, hand-made and gifted decorations.

Another view - I do love my tree.

Some of the decorations.

Can you see the fluffy robin?

And yet another view!

Of course some of the shop-bought

decorations are edible.

There's even gold coins to find...

When January 2017 rolled round I started to remove the tree but Beloved said it had to stay!  So now it is permanently here, with the lights on when it gets dark but the Christmas decorations are replaced with non-Christmas ones for most of the year.

But the tree saga continues!

December 2019 and I've got another

yarn-bombed stick.  Red lights again.

This just has various ornaments

hanging from it.

Recently my friend expressed a wish to have her own twig (her description) so I found one for her and she has yarn-bombed it too.  As she was doing this her grandchildren supported her but everyone else (adults!) thought she was bonkers.  Now the tree is finished with lights and decorations, the adults have changed their minds!

So until Thursday 31 (the next photo hunt) I hope you all have a peaceful Christmas and thank you for taking time to look at my posts.

Bye!