There's a debate raging out there about whether it's ethical to pull fir trees out of the ground, dress them up in tinsel and chuck them away again once the festive season's finished. You could go for a hired tree, a plastic tree or no tree at all. But I've seen so many alternatives recently that it seems people just need to stop arguing and get out the card and the glue gun.
Click on the image below to see some fabulously crafty alternatives to the traditional Christmas tree.
bookshelf xmas tree
Hippyshopper featured this fantastically simple 'tree' made by the careful placement of books on a shelf. Absolutely no tools needed other than a well-stocked library.
