The Bee Tree

Confession: I'm not a big fan of the "homemade tree" look. I don't like kitshy ornaments that have been handed down for generations. It's just not my thing. So, every year I buy a tree-load of new ornaments for our tree. Yes, it gets expensive. Our first Christmas (with a tree, that is) I did a bronze tree, like this:

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Then for our next Christmas, I was over the warm colors, so I did a cool-toned silver, aqua, and pink tree with ornaments like these:

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This will be our third Christmas with a tree (our fourth together, in general) and I was planning on going the "White Christmas" route, a la Crate & Barrel:

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But I really, really did not feel like spending so much money on Christmas ornaments this year. So what did I do? Well, a few weeks ago, Christmas cards from the Bees started filling my mailbox. After about a week, I had no more room for them! Enter: my bright idea, a Bee tree! Cute, functional, and at no cost to me. That's my kind of christmas.

I'm pretty pleased with it, if I do say so myself.

I went ahead and put up a few clear/silver ornaments that we already had, also.

And one special rainbow ornament!

This year the Weddingbee Bloggers did our annual ornament exchange and Mrs. Quiche (aka Kristen at Bien Living) sent me this fabulous rainbow ornament. So. Freakin. Cute.

Have you ever decorated your tree unconventionally?