oh christmas tree

As I mentioned in my last post, we're usually traveling around the holidays. This year, however, we'll be home in Massachusetts and to commemorate June's first Christmas, we're getting a tree.

I'm partial to this look - retro and a little rustic. With white lights, of course.

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Growing up with my grandparents in their house, we did a very retro tree each year. Mainly because our ornaments were all from the 1950's and we used those old-fashioned "icicles." Which my grandma made us save each year so they could impart the same realism to our tree next Christmas. That meant putting them on one-by-one, removing them ever so carefully, and placing them in a 50 year old shoebox. You're all probably envisioning me just throwing the icicles at the tree. Not far off.

This chump's grandma had her doing the same thing...

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Here's some love for our coniferous allies....

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I'm obsessed with the woven basket this tree is sitting in!

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Is this J Lo's tree?

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And of course, Martha Stewart never disappoints. Just imagine taking the icicles off her tree.