I'm very jealous of you ladies. I always have the best intentions but when the holidays come, all I can muster is a little wool felt Christmas tree on my credenza. I did get little LED lights for it last year!
My mother's tree is a production: she buys one in early December; my brother wraps light around every branch (no one else is allowed to do it as apparently we mess it up); then the decorations, collected over years many of which are handmade mouth blown glass ornaments, go up. Unfortunately my parents are the ones who take it down after New Years and it's getting to be too much for them.