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Christmas Tree Decorating : Theme Tree Ideas

A collection of blog posts on A Pop of Pretty's Christmas theme tree ideas, as featured in well known media like Women's Day and Cottages & Bungalows, including a Red Plaid Cottage Christmas Decorating Tour, a Winter Wonderland Christmas Decorating Tour, a Navy Blue and Silver Christmas Decorating Tour, an All White Christmas Decorating Tour, along with a Cabin-Themed Christmas Tree, a Disney Frozen Christmas Tree, a North Pole Themed Christmas Tree, a CandyLand Tree, a Nutcracker Themed Tree, a Dr. Seuss Themed Christmas Tree and more. Includes tips and ideas for how to decorate a Christmas tree and how to put ribbon on a Christmas tree more.

Winter Wonderland Themed Christmas Tree (School Fundraiser)

Winter Wonderland Themed Christmas Tree (School Fundraiser)

I thought I’d share a few pics of the “Winter Wonderland”-themed tree that my sister and I decorated earlier this week as part of a fundraiser for my daughter’s school.  It was really hard to get crisp, bright pictures in the school’s lighting, so if you can forgive the grainy shots, I think these will give you a feel for the kinds of ornaments we used to for a sparkly, icy effect.

White and blue Christmas tree decor

These snowball branches inspired the theme.  When I spotted them, they gave me a vision for the tree, and helped in narrowing down the other ornaments to buy.

Snowball branches on Chistmas tree

Christmas tree decorating ideas 2012

We wanted to do a neutral Christmas tree anyway, so that it would appeal to as many people as possible since it was for a fundraiser.

Winter Wonderland themed Christmas Tree Decor

Once we knew we were going for a ‘Winter Wonderland’ effect, we chose to use READ MORE

Our Newly, Neutral Christmas Tree

Our Newly, Neutral Christmas Tree

Any of you who read my blog regularly probably know that I like me a good pop of color! For the past few years, I’ve also had colorful Christmas decorating. Last year’s Christmas tree last year was decorated in turquoise and red, and the year before, it was turquoise and white.  (You can see how I manage to change our Christmas tree color scheme affordably here. ) And, the tree I created for my kids’ playroom last year had a fun Dr. Seuss theme! But while I love an injection of ‘happy’ during the holidays, all that saturated color sometimes makes me tired of our Christmas decorating earlier than I should be.

So, this year I decided to do a very neutral Christmas tree that would blend in with our surroundings.  I omitted our colorful ornaments, and opted to use just the neutral ones.  I purchased a few new ones too, but not too many.

Christmas Tree Decorating Ideas

(As luck would have it, our Elf on the Shelf, “Henrie-Rouge” decided that he wanted to hang out in the newly-decorated tree on the very day I wanted to take a few pics.)

This neutral tree, with, using mostly cream, white, brown, and champagne, is really different for me. READ MORE…