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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 9:56 am
Wow, I want to meet Butch!!!
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 11:31 am
Every year our hospital's Foundation hold it's annual Holiday Festival Fundraiser. All kinds of groups donate a decorated tree which are then put up for sale or auction. All monies earned this year go toward the expansion of our Emergency Room (we are a nonprofit community based hospital). All trees have a theme and here are just a select few I'll post for your enjoyment. Warning, the pictures just do not do justice to what I saw in person. I took this one for our TVCH Aubergine Queen ;)
An Angel theme tree and I immediately thought of Tess, our TVCH angel.
A brightly colored tree!
This was a Fairies Themed tree.
This tree for auction was titled "Gone With The Wind" and came with lots of awesome GWTH items.
A Lighthouse Themed tree and I thought of Mak and Repete
"Movie Night" - everything you see in the picture was up for auction.
A Nutcracker themed tree.
Raggedy Ann & Andy themed tree. I really liked this one but I didn't have $1,200 to spend on it...lol!
A red & white Santa themed tree.
This one was up for auction at our Gala Event. It was Santa with a long white beard and in his flowing beard was a huge village of little cottages & houses. It was very pretty in person!
A tree filled with toys. Kids were drawn to this tree...!
This tree titled "Little ol' Winemakers" was up for auction and those are bottles of wine that was included with the tree. Of course I immediately thought of Lance and wished I had his credit card...lol!

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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 11:42 am
Holy smokes, those are awesome! I think I like the movie themed one the best!
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 12:08 pm
I loved the lighthouse, aubergine and santa beard village trees.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 2:33 pm
The village tree???? I would have been so there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Tell these people next year, EBAY the auction My tree is almost decorated, still lookig for something to put on top. I bought my tree today, got it at home depot and I got a great tree at a great price!!! I might post my work in progress.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 2:38 pm
Of course I want the one with the lighthouse theme. We have a Christmas Shop here in Ocean Shores and she has gorgeous trees all done up all year round. I enjoy going there and just looking. Thank you for putting up these pictures!
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 3:08 pm
here is one section of my almost completed tree. The pink decoration is very special to us. On christmas 2001, I took Conor to Rockefeller Center to see the tree and there were volunteers there who gave these decorations out. They were decorations made by children in some town somewhere for the children of NY after 9/11 and they gave this decoration to my son. it is special to us.

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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 3:11 pm
How big was that village tree, I can recognize some of those buildings. I have some of those buildings and they are pretty big. Beautiful
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 3:19 pm
Wow! Those trees are magnificent...hope the fundraiser made a lot of money! (Mak, love your tree!) Vacanick, your hutch is the perfect solution to no mantle...those stockings look perfect there!
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 3:41 pm
Amazing trees! Our local paper used to do the same thing along with the gingerbread house contest but they haven't done it the last couple of years. I'm going to call them and ask why. There was supposed to be a table decor contest but I couldn't find it. eBay is a great idea for those trees but I bet packing and shipping would be a job and a half. Like I said WOW.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 4:07 pm
Hi Maris. The Santa Village Tree stood about 6.5 feet high with the width of Santa's beard holding all the pretty buildings, houses, etc about 3 feet wide. Here's the same picture but I resized and cropped to show the buildings closer and a bit larger for you to see better.

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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 4:09 pm
Vee...the lighthouse tree also reminds me of you and Lum as well. I guess it's a Northeast kind of thing! I'm glad you're all enjoying the pictures. Our Foundation holds this event every year and so I'll be back next year with the new set of trees!
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 4:12 pm
They are so beautiful. I love villages. you know $1,200 is a pretty good deal on a tree like that. They are definitely D56 buildings.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 4:19 pm
Actually, this was one of 6 trees that was auctioned off during the Gala Event. I don't know off hand what it got, but knowing how these special trees go at auction, I'd gander a guess at about $8-10K...maybe more! The Raggedy Ann tree was for sale at $1,200, and still, this is a bit high for my wallet. However, if Lance would have let me use his credit card...well, that's a whole different story...lol!
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 4:21 pm
Maris, what are D56 buildings?
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 4:32 pm
Department 56. They make the buildings and I recogize the Victoria station in that tree.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 4:38 pm
I like the Santa/Village tree the best, too. It is such a unique idea, using Santa's beard like that! Very clever and very beautiful! Thanks for sharing, Eggie! Uh, what, no doggie-themed trees? If you ever have to make one yourself, you should try a doxie theme! ETA: Just wanted to know, was that first tree pregnant or what?!! Always wanted to find purple lights for our tree, but have never found them.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 4:47 pm
I found a dog themed tree at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Decorated-Artificial-Christmas-Themed-Pieces/dp/B000KI89TQ Here is a Dogopoly game for you doggie lovers out there! http://www.dogopoly.com/dog/about.htm
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 4:55 pm
look in the middle of that tree and see if this pic doesnt look familiar:

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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 4:56 pm
Eggie, those trees are fantastic! WOW!
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 5:09 pm
Oh Eggie, I love all the spectacular trees! That's a great tree for us Mainiacs.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 5:43 pm
Okay Maris...I see it. If that's your personal display, it's lovely!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 5:43 pm
Eggie, those trees are awesome. sure gives me ideas for next year!
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 5:45 pm
HP, the aubergine tree wasn't preggy...lol! And due to a serious case of CRS...well, I CRS about why it's in that formation, but I'm certain there was a clever reason for it! I'm glad you all are enjoying the trees!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 5:56 pm
Wow love the trees especially the aubergine one lol. Dang mine looks like the Charlie Brown Christmast tree lol.
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