Thursday, December 20, 2012

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A creative spin on the classic icon of the season ...The Christmas Tree

When we were kids, I remember the joy of decorating our Christmas tree. And mind you, our Christmas tree did not look like ...well a conifer, straight and tall but some thing like this.
All lit up and decorated with ornaments. The natural conifers don't grow here and the artificial were not available as they are now. But that did not stop us from having fun, decorating it and enjoying the enchanted look. Mum used to somehow procure a tree from the garden, plant it in decorative planter and Dad used to install the lights and it was all ours for decorating.
Today people are creating creative alternate X-mas trees for various reasons ... their creative juices are overflowing....there are more eco-friendly options available, or something that takes less square footage in a tiny apartment or condo. Whatever the reasons, I was quite impressed by the different ideas people are coming up with. Check it out....
the Royal Danish Embassy's 50th Anniversary had  the theme touched on both — challenging four design students to merge the idea of the traditional Christmas tree with iconic architecture, graphic, product, furniture, and textile designs of the Danish Modern period. You can check out more of these creative X-mas trees here


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Here is one of the most popular alternative. Especially with libraries and book worms. Click here for more quick and easy alternate x-mas trees from books 
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Sticky note X-mas tree. Looks like fun, can be done with different colors with x-mas wishes  written on them. You can do this with all your  X-mas greeting cards.

X-mas ornaments tree found at Pinterest. A very good option to save on space and use your favorite ornaments

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X-mas  string light tree,  another space saver great idea for kids room decoration.

Whatever option you try, enjoy decorating your tree ...'cause its Christmas time!