Alternative Holiday Trees ~ Maybe Not As Cozy But Def. Creative!

So I was reading this clever website called Ariadne at Home the other night – well since it’s in Dutch, Google was loosely translating for me so I was mostly just looking at the pictures – when I came across this image of this clever “tree”.  I love the way it fits in with the elegant furniture and light palette of the room so I grabbed it and saved it on my desktop.

Then I was looking through some of the chairs that West Elm has on their site and came across the two clever trees below – one looks like it’s painted on the wall, but it could be a decal, with some Styrofoam ornaments strung on yarn between the branches.  The other is a real Blue Spruce branch cleverly fixed to the wall (I’m guessing you might be able to do this with a flag holder mounted upside down).  This branch makes me a little sad – the other morning I woke up and a Black Pine Tree that I’d planted a few years back (that was doing so well) had snapped clean in two in an overnight storm.  Really broke my heart…sob, sob.  It really did.

So I also came across the BuroTree (below) on Apartment Therapy – this was popular a few years ago but went out of production for one reason or another.  Now it’s back and is still just as super cool.  The company is based in Australia but I believe these may be available in the US.  They come in a range of sizes from gigantic, to tabletop.  Makes me think of the cool decorations I remember hanging around the house that my folks had – they’d been designed in the ’50’s and ’60’s and always had such a hip, Sammy Davis Junior, Frank Sinatra air about them.

And last, but deliciously not least is this really clever tree that All the Luck in the World (from the Netherlands – do you detect a subtle theme here?)  made by hanging interesting objects she’d collected over the years on a wall.  So so so cool makes me want to try this too – even though I’ve already put up my tree.  Just love this.

So this coming weekend I fully intend to go around and photograph some of the Christmas decorations around New England.  For some reason it seems like people have really gone all out this year – tons of lights (although I probably won’t be able to capture those) and also pineapples, wreaths, garlands, bows,  other fruits.  I want to also video my horses playing in the snow – which may be difficult since we don’t have any on tap for the a few days.  They were out playing the other day in it and they looked so amazing that I simply have to share it.

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