Icy Aqua Splendor - My New Christmas Tree Decor

We did some changing with our Christmas decor this year

and here is the newly decorated Christmas tree.

The tree changed from a Woodland Elf tree in

jewel tones to

this icy aqua tree.  

It just sparkles and glows with lots of glitter and lots of 

silver in addition to the aqua blues.

I kept a few touches from the old tree, including some amethyst 

and some gold.

I think the light amethyst is a perfect color combination

with the beautiful aquas.

A glittering silver star tops the trees along

with iced branches.

Our Woodland Elf tree came on a table that looked

like gnarled wood.  We had it when some of the kids

were little and loved how it added height without having

to store a huge tree.  It was also great when grandkids came along

because everything was up and away from their little hands.

So with the newly decorated tree, we swapped that wood 

table out for this mirrored table.  I had picked this table up

at Tuesday Morning a little more than a year ago and had

it in the basement.  I am glad it has moved up into the

living room now.

Of course I had to pluck off a couple of the elves that were

dressier  and matched the colors on the new tree.

This elf was the tree topper on the old tree.  He is over 20 inches

tall.  He just had to join the new tree and is tucked into the front 

of the tree now.

There are plenty of touches of white and silver 

that brighten the tree.  I love these feathered balls.

They were from Wal Mart this year.

My favorite ornaments are the blue crystal balls on the

left of the picture.  They were from Tai Pan.  Of course I

had to get them before Thanksgiving.  They are all gone now.

The little tear drops were carry overs from the old tree too.

This beautiful aqua glittery leaf garland was from 

Tai Pan.  Most of my ornaments and stems

were from Tai Pan this year.

The hardest part was stripping the wired on ornaments off the tree.

It is a blue spruce look with a slight frosting.  I finally had to

put on gloves while I was working.

As I mentioned, I am used to a pre-decorated tree that we put

away with all the decorations intact, so I was a little afraid

of decorating from a barren tree! 

I hadn't done that in over 10 years.  It was really a lot

of fun, but I do intend to put this one away all

decorated.  We built a storage closet under the basement

stairs.  My husband carries it out the double front

doors and down through sliders.  My sons usually help

and they have me go into another room with music or

the TV playing so I can't hear any breakage!!!

This year most of the ornaments are unbreakable

so that will help!  My dream home (not that this isn't

a wonderful home - but in my dreams) would have

double door closet 

on the main floor with 12 foot high

doors.  I would store the tree on a rolling stand 

and just have it roll out each year!  All of my holiday

decor would be in this room so no more up and down

the stairs with boxes!  Now that would be a DREAM.

I love jewels hanging off the tree.  

This is a long grouping of them.  This was from

Tai Pan too.

This is a stem of jeweled baubles just tucked in.

You can imagine how this glitters and sparkles.

This little bauble is a leftover breakable.  It is really light

amethyst but looks pink in this picture.

Here it is at night and I love how this photo

 captured the blue hour.

Decking the halls, and the mantel, and the staircase,

and the doors, etc. these are my favorite things about

Christmas.  

Put a little Christmas music on and I can decorate

all day!

This is a before picture,

you can really see the blue spruce color in this photo.

(We had to search back 3 years to find any photos.)

You can see it a little better in this close up photo.

It came with the huge woodland elf to the left on

another tree stump type stand.

It definitely isn't as photogenic!

She really was better looking in real life 

especially when she was lit up, but now she

looks like the ugly duckling compared to the

new tree.  No wonder I never posted her in the past!

I love the transformation

from the old tree to the new!

I will be posting this with

Metamorphosis Monday

Feathered Nest Friday

Home Sweet Home

Wow Us Wednesday

Seasonal Sunday