What are your Christmas colours?

daisiegg

Just as the title said - what are your Christmas colours? Do you have a colour scheme or is everything a free for all? Has any of this changed for you over the years?

I grew up in the era of lots of tinsel and those tinselly things you hang from the ceiling (does anyone have those anymore?) and there was absolutely no colour scheme - more of an 'anything goes' attitude which was, of course, great for children!

Now, my Christmas is purely red and gold - very traditional. The tree, all other decorations, and all wrapping paper. No silver is allowed anywhere near my Christmas! :rotfl:

On the other hand, my best friend is really into cool metallic 'funky' things for Christmas so purples, blues, silver, and all very modern. It got me thinking about how many different tastes there are and different ways to do Christmas.

So what is yours?

browneyedbazzi

My christmas decorations have always been a bit of a free for all because I don't buy sets of things - my ornaments have been collected over a long time, with many being bought to mark special memories or places that I've visited and each one is individual. That being said, I wouldn't generally buy anything in gold because I prefer silver!

tanith

Don't have a 'theme' I use whatever comes out of the box, lots of long cherished family bits and bobs and every year my grown up children sit and reminisce over them I still have things they made at school.. occasionally I'll buy something that takes my fancy but I don't stress over whether it matches anything..

daisiegg

browneyedbazzi wrote: »

That being said, I wouldn't generally buy anything in gold because I prefer silver!

So do I in general (would never wear yellow gold jewellery!) except when it comes to Christmas! I think gold is all warm and Christmassy it also helps that my curtains downstairs are red and gold (we did not pick them, they were here when we bought the house, but they are extremely expensive well made curtains so in MSE fashion we won't be replacing them until we need to!) :j:j

wen-tom

we started off with a red and gold theme.. then a purple and silver but as the years have gone on.. we have moved to just 'traditional' so any reds, greens, golds, anything goes really as long as its traditional looking.

I dont like tinsel (i'm not sure why because i grew up with it) so we dont have it on the tree..

Chris25

When I was single, I bought some lovely red & green glass ornaments & complemented them with red lametta (never see that now - showing my age ). My parents let me take the Fairy that we used to use on the top of the tree & some special small red baubles that I remember from forever.

I kept them & used them when we got married & they were added to, gradually every year with momento baubles, but roughly keeping the same colour theme. My in-laws also gave us some that were special to them too.

Then when we had children all the glass ones were left in the loft.

Gradually we built up a collection of Playgroup-made, School-made, Brownie/Guide made etc, plus ones sent each year from relatives abroad marking every pet we've owned & some major events in our lives.

The glass baubles have been brought back as the children have grown, been put back as pets have joined our home & brought back again as pets have grown

Anyway, each year our decorations look the same - a multicoloured mish-mash of very old, old & a few new things.

Decorating the tree (we don't have many other decorations other than greenery) is very special to us - it brings many tears & much laughter.

moneysavingmumofone

Definitely a free for all in our house. We have had colour schemes before, we had pink, purple and silver one year and a few years ago it was bright colours but that morphed into anything goes lol. Love the mix of decs now, old and new, hand made etc etc!

teacherandmum

free for all here too. i tend to buy a new bauble in dec and a new one in the sales each year. all my tree ornaments are individual - no sets of ornaments or anything.
i hand holly and mistltoe around lights etc
i have quite a few wooden/china ornaments that i put on the window sill - these have been presents from children in my class
i hang xmas cards over picture frames and mirrors and on to of the piano
i bought this last year, as ive never had a nativity scene. with 2 young girls (4 and 1) it was a great hit!!

donnalou

Only red and gold for me too, I wouldn't dream of using any other colour for presents that are under my tree. Although I have a LO now and her presents are gonna be wrapped up in Penguin wrapping paper but they will not go under the tree x

mabelmoo_2

We have had a gold theme for the last few years, prior to that I had silver, pink & purple. Over the last few years I have also co-ordinated our wrapping paper in golds, with gold ribbon & bows. This also matches our lounge which is decorated in gold & red all year round.

This year is the first with our LO so I guess it will soon change but for this year we will continue with our gold theme

fiscalfreckles

I have my "posh" tree in the living room, & have collected over the years (reduced in January usually!) lots of tree decs in red, gold, silver & purple, so it can be any of - or combination of - those. So not the same every year, but similar.

I put blue/w/hite/silver decs up in the kitchen diner & then my daughters have a smaller tree upstairs that they are allowed to decorate however they like and is always a riot of multi-colour!

So, a bit of everything really...

I don't worry too much about co-ordinating wrapping paper though. Even if I did that, you can't control what other people give you so I don't see the point, as we are very good & put all our gifts under the tree until Xmas morning.