I love Christmas and I love getting into the festive spirit. This year we are getting started nice and early with this fabulous Christmas tree from Pines and Needles.
I have always been a huge fan of real Christmas trees. I love the smell and there’s just something nice about having a real tree rather than an artificial one. There is also something really nice about going to choose a tree yourself. But, I have to be honest, that part has become more of a challenge now we have small children. Fitting the tree in the car along with said children is a bit interesting for one thing and then there is carving out the time to go and get the tree.
Pines and Needles, with their delivery service, take that hassle factor out of choosing a tree as they deliver them right to your doorstep. We chose a Nordman Fir, as the needles are softer than a “traditional” Christmas tree, and they drop less, which means less hoovering, a huge plus.
I initially thought that having a Christmas tree delivered to your door would increase the cost. Buying a real Christmas Tree isn’t the cheapest option at the best of times, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the combined cost of the tree and the delivery would in fact cost a little less than we normally pay for a tree from our local garden centre.
The tree arrived all sealed and it was nice and damp still when we opened it. The bottom of the trunk had been prepared, i.e. all the lower branches cut off to make getting it in the stand nice and easy. All we needed to do was saw an inch off the bottom for it to soak up water. Pines and needles also kindly provided us with one of their fantastic tree stands. Our old tree stand was more, um, decorative and was basically a complete faff to get the tree into, and because it is metal it had gone nice and rusty. This tree stand is so simple, locks the tree firmly in place and is nice and easy to get water into. No water spilling over onto the floor with this stand and no hassle making it stand straight, I have ended up with some wonky trees over the years!
Monkey is hugely excited by Christmas this year and it’s the first year we have allowed him to help with the decorating. I like a combination of red and white lights so I did that first, then we all got stuck in together to decorate the actual tree! Monkey had great fun doing it and although it was a bit chaotic as he wanted to bounce all of the baubles on the floor (eek) it was a lovely family moment (albeit Little Miss was asleep upstairs, its a few years before she will be able to help!)
We are so pleased with our Christmas tree from Pines and Needles, it is fantastic quality and exactly what we are looking for in a tree. The fact that it can be delivered to your door is brilliant. I know that means you don’t get to choose the tree yourself but we are not at all disappointed with ours and now there is one less job to take off the list in the run-up to Christmas.
The fabulous people at Pines and Needles have given me an offer code to share with you lovely readers! If you order a tree and enter the code STAY14, you will recieve a free mini Christmas Tree, Mistletoe and Holly! The mini Christmas tree is so cute we couldn’t resist adding a few of our own decorations to it too.
We were sent this tree for the purposes of the review, howver all, thoughts, opinions and photographs are my own.
Also linking up with #TinselTuesdays
That tree is amazing – what do they recommend about keeping it fresh and to stop it shedding needles?
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Isn’t it? That type of tree doesn’t shed too many needles anyway, which is great, and as long as you keep the water topped up it should last ok, hope so anyway! xx
Gorgeous tree honey! We have a teeny little table top one this year, way up high and out of reach of crawling, cruising mischievous little boys… looking forward to having a real one again next year xxx #magicmoments
It looks so lovely, and I love the idea of having a tree delivered – that would be a Christmas moment in itself.
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What a great idea, my kids would never allow me to not go and pick one for themselves from the local Christmas tree farm but I think that this would save us a lot of hassle. I love the excitement on Monkey’s face as he’s putting all the decorations on the tree. Popping in from Magic Moments.
That’s a lovely looking tree!
That is a beautiful tree and it is nice not to have the hassle of having to get one home in the car! We currently have an artificial one, but I can see us going back to a real one at some point 🙂 #MagicMoments
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I remember the drama we had when we tried to get our tree home in our (at the time) very small car. Was like an episode of Mr Bean.
We should’ve done this!!
Your tree looks fab!
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Jenna at Tinyfootsteps xx
What a gorgeous tree! I love that you can get them delivered. I’m sure I din’t know that unitl now! Great review x
Great looking tree and putting the decorations is always such a special time, we love spending an hour doing it, got me all excited for the weekend now. #magicmoments
Oh wow! That looks fantastic! Beautiful x
What a gorgeous tree. I love real trees but am always worried about the amount of needles dropping, the option you have sounds reasonable! Thanks for linking up with #TriedTested
Brilliant tree, we always have a real tree but pick our own as I had a disaster bush of a tree when last delivered. This looks amazing though. I may have to check them out. It looks like you all had a great time decorating it too. #triedtested
Your tree is gorgeous. Having it delivered to your door saves so much hassle x #triedandtested
Stunning looking tree! We’re first timers for real trees so I am a bit OMG will it live until Xmas day sort of thing? I had no idea you had to cut an inch off the base for it to soak up water though! Eeeepp!! x
What a fab idea! I always think a real tree is such a hassle and we’ve never actually managed to keep one alive yet!
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Such a lovely tree! I really want to get a real tree and this sounds perfect #triedtested
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we have our first real tree and love it .. there is something magical about real trees isnt there
A beautiful tree! Loving these festive posts from everyone! Thanks for linking up to #brilliantblogposts
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