I'd love to see everyone's theme ideas here.
Beary Merry Tree, stuffed bears or use beanie babies, also theme this by doing bears with workshop items, bakery or toys
Watermelon tree, watermelon ornaments, watermelon seed packs with green and white striped ribbon bows
Poinsettia tree, silk poinsettia flows with gold ribbons and beads
Save the Earth Tree, ornaments of endangered animals with pinecones and ribbons
Nautical Tree, lobster, light houses and fish ornaments with life preservers, flags and bobbers. Make bobbers by dipping red glass ornaments is white paint.
Penguin Tree, penguin ornaments, use plastic icicles or ice cubes, small wooden skies and cotton batting for snow
Kitty Cat Tree, cat ornaments, baskets labeled with "catnip" with dried herbs (don't suggest real catnip if you have cats lol), bows, small bird house for tree topper (stencil with "kitty cat motel")
Dog Gone Christmas, dog ornaments, plastic bones tied with ribbons, dog toys hung with ribbons, use a wooden bird house at top but cut out a hole so it looks like a dog house, stencil pets animal on the house
Nutcracker Tree, nutcracker ornaments, small drums and musical note ornaments, Plaid tree skirt
Gifts of the Magi, Magi dolls with antique looking snowflakes, gold balls and bells, small jeweled boxes, gold tassels, all with purple accents and purple velvet skirt
Christmas Carousel, Carousel horse ornaments made by cutting out shape and glue on sparkle glitter, pink and white ribbons, white snowflakes, clear glass ornaments, dried roses
Button Country, fabric angles made out of country fabric, make some quilt yo-yos sew several on a ribbon with buttons in the middle of the yo-yo, some fabric hearts with buttons, use white small picket fence around tree with dried sunflowers glued on the fence, felt tree skirt with lots of buttons sewed on
Kitchen molds, glue two matching metal jello molds together to make ornaments (the silver kind), use glue on trim to cover the seam and add a hanger, large red silk or dried flowers, off white berry garland and off white lace woven in tree, wooden spoons as accents
Ice Splendor, use a white tree, with silver ornaments, silver photo frames (empty), silver mesh ribbon to weave in tree, mirrored garland
Whimsical Cool Yule, very large red ornaments, small package ornaments, lime green ornaments for accent, candy garland, bend top of tree so it curve into a 'c' shape at the top with a star hanging off the end.
Beach house, hand shells and weave fish net for garland, star fish for top of tree, have tree in basket or a wooden box for a stand, hang a "wish in a bottle"(clear small bottle with paper that can be read with a few small seashells or sand in it), white metal bells.
All one color, like red. Do the whole tree with red ornaments and garland with clear glass icicles and clear beaded garland woven into tree
Retro Noel, Silver tree with white and pink ornaments with brown accents
White and Gold, White tree with all gold metal ornaments, gold wired ribbon tied in a big bow to the top of the tree and running down the tree (not around) use white lights. A friend did this one year and it looked like it should have been a cover for a magazine.
Merry Magic Elf, stuffed Elf ornaments, two colored ribbons twisted together and woven around tree, gold jingle bells as accents
New baby in the house, pastel ornaments, baby rattles and teething toys tied on tree with baby ribbons
Cowboy Christmas, Cowboy Santa ornaments, small plastic horses tied on with twine, hang on real bits, brown suede ribbons to trim end of each branch
Family Tree, photos of family printed in sepia and framed in small gold frames, ornaments to reflect the occupation of family members, copy a map of the area family members live on the shrink film to make small ornaments to hang, gold stars and keys as accents
Kitchen tree, small metal baking pans (like the baking sets for children), small metal kitchen whisks and bread dough ornaments made to look like fancy breads and cookies, use red and white checkered ribbons for accents
gingerbread tree, you could add french silk tule bags, like the ones used at weddings, filled with those red hot candies or other Christmas candy and tied with ribbon. Also gingerbread man cookies cutters. Even hang the Christmas ribbon candy on the tree
red and white ornaments
http://www.valuebuy.net/red.html
http://www.theornamentgirl.com/ornament ... aments.htm
photos of white tree with candy candy decorations
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/pho ... 1407DAHLRe
And you could go all out and use this card
http://www.secretclosetgifts.com/browse.cfm/4,2134.htm
The lyrics for the Candy Cane Tree
http://www.cherrylane.com/clpub/html/bo ... wid=100242
Beary Merry Tree, stuffed bears or use beanie babies, also theme this by doing bears with workshop items, bakery or toys
Watermelon tree, watermelon ornaments, watermelon seed packs with green and white striped ribbon bows
Poinsettia tree, silk poinsettia flows with gold ribbons and beads
Save the Earth Tree, ornaments of endangered animals with pinecones and ribbons
Nautical Tree, lobster, light houses and fish ornaments with life preservers, flags and bobbers. Make bobbers by dipping red glass ornaments is white paint.
Penguin Tree, penguin ornaments, use plastic icicles or ice cubes, small wooden skies and cotton batting for snow
Kitty Cat Tree, cat ornaments, baskets labeled with "catnip" with dried herbs (don't suggest real catnip if you have cats lol), bows, small bird house for tree topper (stencil with "kitty cat motel")
Dog Gone Christmas, dog ornaments, plastic bones tied with ribbons, dog toys hung with ribbons, use a wooden bird house at top but cut out a hole so it looks like a dog house, stencil pets animal on the house
Nutcracker Tree, nutcracker ornaments, small drums and musical note ornaments, Plaid tree skirt
Gifts of the Magi, Magi dolls with antique looking snowflakes, gold balls and bells, small jeweled boxes, gold tassels, all with purple accents and purple velvet skirt
Christmas Carousel, Carousel horse ornaments made by cutting out shape and glue on sparkle glitter, pink and white ribbons, white snowflakes, clear glass ornaments, dried roses
Button Country, fabric angles made out of country fabric, make some quilt yo-yos sew several on a ribbon with buttons in the middle of the yo-yo, some fabric hearts with buttons, use white small picket fence around tree with dried sunflowers glued on the fence, felt tree skirt with lots of buttons sewed on
Kitchen molds, glue two matching metal jello molds together to make ornaments (the silver kind), use glue on trim to cover the seam and add a hanger, large red silk or dried flowers, off white berry garland and off white lace woven in tree, wooden spoons as accents
Ice Splendor, use a white tree, with silver ornaments, silver photo frames (empty), silver mesh ribbon to weave in tree, mirrored garland
Whimsical Cool Yule, very large red ornaments, small package ornaments, lime green ornaments for accent, candy garland, bend top of tree so it curve into a 'c' shape at the top with a star hanging off the end.
Beach house, hand shells and weave fish net for garland, star fish for top of tree, have tree in basket or a wooden box for a stand, hang a "wish in a bottle"(clear small bottle with paper that can be read with a few small seashells or sand in it), white metal bells.
All one color, like red. Do the whole tree with red ornaments and garland with clear glass icicles and clear beaded garland woven into tree
Retro Noel, Silver tree with white and pink ornaments with brown accents
White and Gold, White tree with all gold metal ornaments, gold wired ribbon tied in a big bow to the top of the tree and running down the tree (not around) use white lights. A friend did this one year and it looked like it should have been a cover for a magazine.
Merry Magic Elf, stuffed Elf ornaments, two colored ribbons twisted together and woven around tree, gold jingle bells as accents
New baby in the house, pastel ornaments, baby rattles and teething toys tied on tree with baby ribbons
Cowboy Christmas, Cowboy Santa ornaments, small plastic horses tied on with twine, hang on real bits, brown suede ribbons to trim end of each branch
Family Tree, photos of family printed in sepia and framed in small gold frames, ornaments to reflect the occupation of family members, copy a map of the area family members live on the shrink film to make small ornaments to hang, gold stars and keys as accents
Kitchen tree, small metal baking pans (like the baking sets for children), small metal kitchen whisks and bread dough ornaments made to look like fancy breads and cookies, use red and white checkered ribbons for accents
gingerbread tree, you could add french silk tule bags, like the ones used at weddings, filled with those red hot candies or other Christmas candy and tied with ribbon. Also gingerbread man cookies cutters. Even hang the Christmas ribbon candy on the tree
red and white ornaments
http://www.valuebuy.net/red.html
http://www.theornamentgirl.com/ornament ... aments.htm
photos of white tree with candy candy decorations
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/pho ... 1407DAHLRe
And you could go all out and use this card
http://www.secretclosetgifts.com/browse.cfm/4,2134.htm
The lyrics for the Candy Cane Tree
http://www.cherrylane.com/clpub/html/bo ... wid=100242
