As if my babble isn't long enough, I forgot to say one thing about the Disney trees. Last year as I was digging and looking through boxes, I kept finding the plastic light covers that are Mickey, Goofy and Donald in random places. I put them all together
with the light strings.
That meant that this year when the lights were actually used, I only had one decapitated head without his body! All the other bodies had been found.
Please first read my message in the reply to Todd's email about TTC 2016.
This is the Disney/Mickey tree. I had a really hard time trying to take pictures of this tree. I tried with lights in the room and with them off. I tried it from different angles. I couldn't get close to the tree because it had already been put on top of
the speeder. Getting power to it so I could turn on the lights for the photo was a difficult problem. Like I said, I took all these pictures before things were finally set.
The strings of lights on this tree are Mickey, Donald, and Goofy. The clear lights stick into the head of the characters, then their bodies attach. One of the Donald's has lost his body. Since the tree is up high I doubt anyone notices the decapitated head!
Mary gave me this tree and the light strings, and only a few balls that had Disney characters on them. There was no where close to enough to for even this small tree. I remembered the Mickey & Minnie stuffed animals from last year's animal tree so I dug around in that box until I found them. As you can see, I used one of them as the topper.
Mary has bought more Disney characters and decorations since I did these. I need to go look to see how the trees ended up looking. When I did my part I left her a note telling her the lighted characters needed to be turned to face outwards after the tree was in place. I don't know if that ever happened. These had nothing on them to attach to the branches so all you can do is drape them across branches, or twist the strands of the cord around a branch.