A few weekends ago I headed to a Christmas Tree Farm to begin The Great Tree Hunt 2012. It was a beautiful morning: mist was gently rolling in over the surrounding hills and the early light danced gently upon the dew-laden branches, which make them twinkle as if they were already bedecked with fairy lights. With the same enthusiasm I had as a child, I hurried up and down between the rows of trees, touching, twirling and smelling the ones that caught my eye. Eventually I found a little area of cut trees grouped together because they didn’t make the Farm’s standard of a fully-shaped tree. I soon fell for two adorable trees, which were crying out for a loving home! I liked how they weren’t uniform in shape; their spindly and sparse appearance gave them a quirky, Scandi-like feel like that I instantly liked. Back home, I placed the smaller tree on my balcony and dressed the larger one indoors with a traditional scheme of red and white decorations. If you’ve decorated for the festive season, what look have you gone for?
// Photography by Will Taylor
19 / 19 / 2012
They have to be the cutest trees! I hope being the first to comment makes up for me being the last on your wonderful news in the previous little post
) hugs cx
19 / 19 / 2012
How fun! You chose the absolute cutest & unique looking trees, too… I love how different one person’s tree is from the next. Yours looks amazing!
And a big congratulations on your recent engagement! Such sweet news.
You two look wonderful together.
19 / 19 / 2012
i love your take on the traditional colors; very fun with a touch of whimsy. great photography too btw:-). xx
19 / 19 / 2012
I love the trees you chose Will + how you have decorated them is beautiful. I love the idea of using ribbon for your tree and the red + white theme is lovely. Those baubles with stripes + polka dots are super cool too xx
19 / 19 / 2012
aww… that’s so much fun to go to a tree farm to pick your own tree! You have 2 trees this year!!
loving your color scheme for the holidays with the oh-so-festive red and white cheerful combo … consistent with the kitchen decor too!
love to see more!
19 / 19 / 2012
Lovely! I love your small and cheerful tree!
19 / 19 / 2012
Love the trees and little bells.
I loved decorating this year, I used a mixture of handmade elements inspired by Pinterest.
http://arnoldandbird.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/the-little-details-homemade-christmas-decorations/
19 / 19 / 2012
What a perfectly Christmas-y tale. Your beautiful images combined with your lovely words tells the story wonderfully. I love your tree, and I love that first image on top. So romantic somehow
My little tree will be dressed in white and gold this year. Pics to come soon…
Xx. Holly.
19 / 19 / 2012
I love your trees and your white and red decorations… We have gone this year for silver, light blue and white… I gave up real trees two years ago because we have it already for Saint Nicolas which is on December 6th and it is a “big” celebration here, in Luxembourg, so my tree hardly made it up to January every year. Actually lots of family have presents exchanged on Saint Nicolas rather than at Christmas and local schools are closed this day.
I love your pics….
Take care.
19 / 19 / 2012
I think we were tree hunting on the same day…mine is up on the blog today too! We’re in sync
19 / 19 / 2012
oh Will I love this, you have to tell me where it is so I can try to go next year!!
19 / 19 / 2012
Emailing you right away! x
19 / 19 / 2012
I can’t wait to see your tree, Holly – it sounds wonderful! x
19 / 19 / 2012
what a lovely quest & lovely trimmings…we finally got ours up just yesterday [been out of town so much!].
19 / 19 / 2012
I love how tall that branch is! So beautifully decorated!
19 / 19 / 2012
I love the fact that you got the unwanted trees, they look beautiful! I love the scandi style, there was a great selection of red and white in ikea this year
I have gone with a colour pop tree this year, I’m normally a silver allover kind of girl but I spray painted some old baubles bright yellow for a bit of festive fun.. Yellow is good right?
http://instagr.am/p/TQ4qLWM-ki/
19 / 19 / 2012
I love your yellow baubles, Vicky!
19 / 19 / 2012
Hi Will,
Your tree looks great! The where’s Mr.Bazaar cracked me up. Can’t believe you already wrapped the presents too! Our tree is sitting outside on the balcony waiting to be taken in. For our tree I like it colourful. We get a real tree every year, but I’m tempted to also get a fake fun pink one.
mikky
http://www.todaloos.com
19 / 19 / 2012
Your tree looks wonderful! I just love the red and white. And the farm that you found it at is just ideal! Merry Christmas! xo
19 / 19 / 2012
I love these pics Will, please tell where this farm is, it looks fab. I am a traditional red & green girl at xmas and have just posted some pics of our house decorated for Christmas on my blog. Hope you approve? http://karenbarlow.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/its-beginning-to-look-lot-like-christmas.html
19 / 19 / 2012
I love the Cox & Cox crackers you’ve chosen – those candy stripes make me smile! Your wreath with the winter berries looks fab, too!
19 / 19 / 2012
Love it – such a cute tree and your pictures are beautiful! Looks like such an adventure! PS Do I spy my pressie??! xxx
19 / 19 / 2012
Very cute that you choose exactly those two underdogs ehmmm trees
. We have a pine tree in our garden outside and I decorated it with a simple light string (on my blog today). It looks so festive, yet simple. I also took some branches inside with me, because they smell SO nice!
20 / 20 / 2012
really loved following you along in your tree adventure!!
xo,
Sandy
Sandy a la Mode
20 / 20 / 2012
Fantastic pictures! What a lovely way to get a tree. I love the end results too. A very merry Christmas to you and your man
21 / 21 / 2012
I loved how you picked your trees, and even more how beautifully they are decorated! A merry Christmas to you and yours!
21 / 21 / 2012
How fun!!`!I love you christmas tree!!!!!