Blush and Rose Gold Christmas Tree

“O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree”… can you guess what we are sharing for the 10th day of Christmas? 😉 You guessed it! Today is the day we are sharing our Christmas trees with you. Yay!! I think I said this last year too, but this year’s tree is my favorite one I have decorated. This blush and rose gold Christmas tree is so beautiful! I never thought I would be decorating a Christmas tree with pink, but I gotta say I am loving it!

You can find more pictures below, and at the bottom of the post check out all the other beautiful Christmas trees from the many talented bloggers we have joining us for this blog hop.

If you want to see what I have posted for the other days, follow these links:

• Day 1 – Finger Knitted Christmas Wreath
• Day 2 – 30 Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas
• Day 3 – Rustic Christmas Advent Calendar
• Day 4 – Paper Christmas Cookies Kid’s Craft
• Day 5 – Cream Cheese Christmas Tree with Crackers and Pepper Jelly
• Day 6 – DIY Wooden Bead Feather Ornament
• Day 7 – White Village Christmas Mantel
• Day 8 – Christmas Morning Muffins in a Jar
• Day 9 – Simple Hand Embroidered Gift Tags
• Day 11 – Homemade Snickers Bars
• Day 12 – Knitted Christmas Stockings

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Welcome to Day 10 of the Fourth Annual 12 Days of Christmas Series!

We have teamed up with 50 plus bloggers to bring you a oodles of DIY ideas and recipes to make your holiday season merrier. There are 12 different posts in the series and we have spread them out over a four week period with three posts per week. Now is the time to subscribe!

GO HERE for the complete list of Dates and Topics plus a collection of the most popular holiday ideas including ornaments, games, recipes and more from all 50 plus talented bloggers!

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For a long time, I did not change up my Christmas decor too much from year to year. Mostly because of the cost involved in having lots of different Christmas decorations, but also for the ease of it. Now as a blogger, I kinda have to change up my decor or it would get really boring for you guys to see the same tree every year. Ha! Luckily over time, I have picked up on some great tips to save money on Christmas tree decor. I will be sharing those tips with you today. 🙂

My trees of Christmas past were mostly decorated with lots of red. Of course red is the quintessential color choice for Christmas anyway so that always worked out great. However, I got a little tired of red and wanted to branch out to other colors. One year the day after Christmas, I bought a fully decorated tree from Menards at a heck of a discount! It had ornaments, ribbon, lights and more included and it was decorated with colors of bronzes, coppers and golds. It was gorgeous! In fact, the ribbon on this tree and the blush and copper swirled ornament pictured below came from that tree.

So that would be my first tip, look for fully decorated trees at discounts. You could literally save hundreds of dollars that way. I think I paid about $150 for everything, tree and all the decorations! Of course, the second obvious tip is to buy Christmas decorations after Christmas each year. You can get them at such a discount. Plan ahead what colors you want to use for next year’s Christmas. I know some people don’t like to plan ahead, but if you want to save money, this is the best way to do it!

I also know it is not always easy to spend money after Christmas since you just paid out a ton for Christmas gifts. But just to give you an idea, I got so many decorations this past year at Hobby Lobby when they had everything 80% off and spent about $40!! That’s it! Most of the ornaments you see on this tree were bought then as well as the big disco ball ornament. 🙂 I also got some gold ribbon that I did not even use. The ornament sets that I got came with pretty blue ornaments too that I used this year on my front porch. You can see them on my finger knitted wreath I have hanging on the front door.

I also was able to buy some BIG ornaments that I would have not spent the money on otherwise. I really think the different sized ornaments add a lot of dimension to the tree.

Another tip I have is to stock up on a lot of decorations that are neutral colors like silver and gold. Those can be used every year with all of your color combinations and are great to use as filler on your tree. They can also be used in vignettes around your house.

One more tip is to DIY your ornaments. There are so many great tutorials out there on Pinterest and we even shared some earlier in our 12 days of Christmas blog hop. So you already saw these DIY wooden bead feather ornaments that I made this year. They were really easy and inexpensive to make. Don’t they look lovely on the tree?

I love how they tie into the wooden bead garland on the mantel and they go so well with the fake “snow” on the tree. Check our my Christmas tree from last year to see the details on the snow. 🙂

Another way you can save money is to flock your own tree. I had wanted a flocked tree for a long time but did not want to spend the money on it as we already had a couple perfectly good Christmas trees already. So last year I decided to DIY it. It turned out great! I was pleasantly surprised this year when I pulled it out of the box to see how it fared. There was some flocking that had come off but overall it still was covered well. I didn’t even have to add more flocking this year. Next year, I want to add more to make the flock heavier though.

I found some cute coordinating wrapping paper at Target this year. I made up these free printable simple hand embroidered gift tags to dress up the presents even more. They were very easy to make and you can make them in any color!

I also did something new this year when hanging my ornaments and really like how they turned out. I grouped the ornaments in clumps of twos and threes instead of hanging them all singly. This helps to make the tree look more full. I found some bigger hooks at Hobby Lobby so I was able to hang a couple ornaments on the same hook. These were also gotten for 80% off. 🙂

I really love how the tree coordinates with my white village Christmas mantel this year. The big rose gold star matches perfectly with some of the ornaments. Everything looks so pretty, it just makes me smile every time I walk into the room. Isn’t that why we decorate after all? To make us happy? 🙂

I hope you like my Christmas tree this year as much as I do. It will be up for a little while even after Christmas. We usually leave our Christmas decor up through New Year’s Day and even a little longer. It always seems like a lot of work to decorate for only one month! Plus I miss the twinkling lights. Do you usually take your tree down right away? I will be back on Wednesday with a sweet treat to share with you. See you then!

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