Christmas trees are used in many countries in December where Christianity is the predominant religion. To inspire you or give you new ideas for the Christmas festival or any other time where  glitz and glitter are a part of the occasion we bring our collection of Christmas trees from our travels in Europe and the UK . Perhaps the only thing they have in common are the cone shape! Enjoy!

To start the collection we take you to Nancy in France.

. Click here for bigger view	We found the perfect tree for a dress shop! The material wrapped around the tree was the same as the coat in the window! With perfect symmetry the tree, the door, the windows the fake snow was real French chic! Or you can just take a cone-shaped frame, put some tiny lights inside and wrap it in red!	Click here for bigger view
Click here for bigger view	Of course you can take two trees, wrap them in fabric and make a contrast with lots of loopy decorative strands. Join them together with more drape and Voila! Why even have a tree at all? Collect plant material and decorations in white and cream, put them is a festive vase and you have a statement!	Click here for bigger view

. A bit big to fit in your place?	How about a tree wound in Christmas lights through every branch and twig with a big illuminated ball every so often as a focal point? Taken outside Les Galleries LaFayette.
Still too big? Perhaps just a street then... Just off the Rue de Royale, Click here for bigger view	Ok just a wall? Packages and a swag outside a Montmartre cafe.Click here for bigger view

Simple blue tints and tones in baubles on a silver tree base, Click here for bigger view	Designer grey foliage with glass snowflakes in their hundreds, Click here for bigger view
Or traditional in red and green with pointsettia and baubles Click here for bigger view	or with silvered and glittered silver balls. Click here for bigger view

A tree full of all the bears in every storybook we have ever read Click here for bigger view

and a tree of feathers!

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