We normally do a big green Christmas tree with lots or keepsake ornaments. This year I really wasn't feeling it. I longed for something sleeker, cleaner, crisper and... Mod. I was able to talk my husband into going with a smaller tree. One less bushy so ornaments could hang nicer. Then I talked him into going with a WHITE tree. I felt at this point I was on a roll so I took it a step further and suggested we do only ONE color ornament on this tree. To my surprise.... he said ok!
I wanted a fake tree and knew we would set out to purchase it. Because Christmas is so expensive we knew we could not spend too much. Since I also did not have Christmas ornaments in the SAME color.... I knew we would also have to... gulp... purchase these as well. The hubs said he had seen trees out in East LA and suggested we try it out. So we did. They have all these little five and dime stores around. We tried a couple stores and only found green trees. The third shop was the charm.
Inside we found a 6ft white non bushy tree for..... $14.99!
We took it home and set it up.
Oh Christmas tree!
It was exactly what I wanted and the hubs even approved! We went out in search of non expensive
ornaments for our tree. We ended up finding them at the 99 cent store! The colors were so pretty that it was hard to choose just one. Our color choice was Turquoise.
I purchased 3 tubes of pretty plastic turquoise balls for 1.00 a piece. I also ended up finding a Retro tree topper in silver there so I nabbed that as well. We took it all home and decorated our tree. I threw on a vintage Ray Conniff Singers Christmas album. The same one we listened to as kids. When all was done I turned off all the lights and admired our little tree.
It was perfect!
This little retro tree fit so well with our décor and it all cost less than 20 bucks.
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