Thread: Halloween in December!

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While I was at Garden Ridge hitting the Halloween clearance, I had to walk through row upon row of Christmas. They have a new thing in trees apparently - day glow colors, purple, pink, red, aqua, lime green artifical trees .

And then I saw the orange and the black trees. Halloween colors for a Christmas tree. Bloody brilliant.

A BLACK Christmas tree.

I could make a full moon with a black cat silhouette for the tree topper, and use Halloween ornaments.

I really, really wish we hadn't just gotten a new tree last year.

Anyone else carry over the festivities into Chirstmas time?

I posted this in another thread... I'm wanting to carry Halloween over to Christmas... Dress my skeleton like Santa Clause, Have a skeleton snowman... little skeleton elves, it could work.

A black Christmas tree would be cool though... Full moon for a tree topper, spiderwebs for garland... miniature shrunken heads for ornaments...

Too bad my wife loves Christmas too much to let me interfere with it.

I used to deck out my tree with little skulls and snakes and spiders, but that is when I was single!

I always wanted to do a "Halloween" Christmas tree. That is a great ideal have to pass this to my other half

We have a lot of Nightmare Before Christmas stuff at our house (my son is a HUGE fan). His Christmas stocking is from Hot Topic. The sock itself is black with the top fold-down part in red. Stiched in the center is a skull with a Santa hat. It is extremely cool and upsets the relatives to no end so we always have it out.

I think Halloween and Christmas are more closely related then most people think. I mean, we give out presents during Christmas and during Halloween, we give out treats. The spirit of giving is essential to both holidays. Hmmmm....maybe I'll gift wrap some extra body parts I have laying around......

I wanted one of the small black trees but they are sold out. Hopefully they will get them back in stock so I can pick one up before Christmas.

I wanted to get a twig tree for Halloween and ended up buying two this year. One is actually a Hanukah bush - you can see it at www.colpod.com It is white, but the Halloween ornaments stand out beautifully. We'll be using this as our Christmas tree this year.

The other is a smaller black twig tree. We got ours at www.ornamentcollectors.com (search for twig tree) I first saw it on Ebay, but it was going for $50 on Ebay and $26.99 at the lister's store!

Both companies were great to deal with and the trees are beautiful! (They are made out of the same stuff that the hard plastic coat hangers are.)

Last year our Christmas tree was decorated with kids toys and a ventriloquist dummy's head as a tree topper. It's amazing how you can turn a Christmas tree into something creepy by just using real toys - clowns, dolls etc.

http://www.gardenridge.com/new_products.asp

It's got the black tree, but not the orange one, darn it. There's also the purple and aqua and pink ones...

Weird. cool, but weird.

Walked into our Ace Hardware store and there, standing before me, was a beautiful purple Xmas tree. Immediately asked the cashier how much it was, and without blinking, she said, "$250.00" *Ack!* So just as immediately there went my dream of a purple Xmas...

They had a black ones at Menard's this year too, but I never think of Xmas when I'm Halloween shopping !