Advices on decorating a Christmas tree

You can put, as a tree, and pine.
The advantages of pine - more needles (looks fluffier at a distance) and will stay longer without crumbling.

Tips:

Put in water and add sugar.
Do not buy in the cold, until you bring home, a lot of scree, believe me, the experience is, it will be like glass.
Well, if the tree is higher than you need, then from below will remain additional branches. They are thicker than the upper ones and can be added to the place where it is empty. In addition, the spruce branch can be used to decorate the apartment.

Errors:

Many people decorate the tree with lights so tightly, as if there will not be anything else.
Then they hang out the toys, as if there's nothing more there and nothing will happen.
Do not go to look from the side.
They try to hang up all the toys that they have.
Then decorate with rain.
And some more and cotton wool, making snow on the branches.

As a result, the tree itself is not visible, but a bunch of brilliant ornaments, like porridge.

First we hang the garland.

Garland can be both multi-colored and white (by the way, in the west prefer white).
We at home use a white garland on the window, on the tulle, because the style of the tree would be nice to decorate with white garlands.
After that, it is not necessary to hang toys. More does not mean better.
Lights on the tree let it be as much as possible, so the whole tree looks more stylish and holistic.

For toys, use dark threads (black or dark green), so they will not be visible.
Do not hang the same toys next to (unless, unless you decided to decorate the entire tree with the same toys, for example, only balls).
You can decorate the tree stylishly, for example:
Only balls of 2 colors: blue and white; Red and yellow; White (or silver) and yellow (or gold),
Identical balls, the whole tree will look like a single whole,
Toys or balls of the same color, at least 2 types,
Toys or balls of the same color, using halftones, for example red and dark red, then everything will not be red, but red.
If there are old toys, you can decorate the tree under the old style. If you do not have many such toys, ask your relatives and friends, they are invited to use your other toys.
The smaller the toys, the better they will look on the background of the greenery of the Christmas tree.
Do not hang all the toys, otherwise each new year you will have a Christmas tree look the same.
Just go to the Internet and see a photo of the fir-trees there, select worthy examples and take as a basis. My wife and I love this season to go shopping to choose Christmas toys. Today there are a lot of very interesting toys, they are expensive and if you buy a little each year, it will not be significant for your budget. In addition, if every season you buy only the best toys, you will have an excellent collection.

I also like to draw threads under the ceiling (white in the color of the ceiling, next to the carpet - black, so they can not be seen). It turns out a small web. Then I hang big toys on long threads, threads of different length, it looks as if they hang in the air.
They should not be very much, otherwise it will not be beautiful, and will interfere.

The rain and yours is not an ornament, but additional details, so to speak, finishing touches. They should not decorate (in fact, zashlamit) tree, and emphasize. The main decoration - toys, not a garland, not a rain. More important than toys is the tree itself, it should be clearly visible.

Warning!

If the tree is decorated with children, let them do it their own way, let them use their creativity.

The Christmas tree is placed just before Christmas (if you celebrate it on December 25) or before the New Year. And it costs at least until the old New Year.
In USA the Christmas tree is put on December 1 and stands before the New Year, after which it is immediately removed. I tried to put on December 1, and it's true after the New Year I wanted to clean up, I'm already fed up. Now I try to deliver as late as possible. But be wise, so as not to fall into the cold, otherwise you will not smash the tree into the house.