Today was an ideal day to start preparing for Christmas, Danielle was at work and I didn’t had to go to work because of All Saints’ Day. This is a regional public holiday in Germany. So that means time to set up our Christmas-tree! You might think we are crazy (maybe we are) but it’s a lot of work to set up the tree and we want to enjoy it longer as just a couple of weekends. It’s still the same artificial tree we have as last year. Some facts about our tree:

• 2,15 meter high
• 1,35 in diameter (at the widest point)
• 800 Warm white lights
• 5 White Garlands
• 100+ White, Silver and Transparent Ornaments (Apples, Roses, Angels, Butterflies, Grapes, Glass Bauble and more)
• 1 White tree skirt

I started this morning at about 11 o’clock. And than I figured out the I had a big problem, last year I dismantled the tree faster than ever and now I know why, the light strings where all knotty. So it took me almost an hour to get this far:

And about 2 hours later the tree was setup and all of the 800 lights were lit:

And 20 minutes later I had the Garlands in place:

Then it was tim to get all the ornaments together since it’s best to have an overview before starting with putting them in the tree. I mean we want to have the nicest ornaments on the parts of the tree we see most of the time. And we also want to divide them equally around the tree. It took almost 2 hours before I had all the ornaments in the tree. I didn’t count them but there are definitely more than 100 ornaments.

And finally we had a Christmas-tree again:

And some close-ups of the ornaments: