We always get a real tree, we get a small one (4-foot ish) and put it up on a table so the dogs & cats don't destroy it. We don't have a theme at all; our ornaments are a random mishmash of stuff. We each have ornaments from our childhood that our mothers passed on to us, ornaments we made ourselves when we were young & poor and having our first Christmas on our own, ornaments painted by my niece & nephew; plus crazy random things we've bought over the years or have had given to us - some of it is very silly, some of it is classy, some of it is just weird but each one has memories. We use colored lights and we have some wreaths made of wooden beads that are painted red & white.
It's random and chaotic but I love it. Each ornament has meaning to us.
