Thursday, December 25, 2008

Unique Christmas Trees

Merry Christmas ! One of the best things we love about the season is putting up the Christmas Tree! Not only are we proud of our own trees, we oggle and admire all those creative Trees found around town. Below are some special trees ........

World's most expensive Trees

The dazzling 24k gold tree, decorated with more than 240 jewels including diamond baubles and strings of pearls.

It weighs more than 21 kilograms and is worth 150million yen - or £1million.


Made by a Singapore jeweller , this magnificent tree is encrusted with 21,798 glittering diamonds totaling 913 carats, 3,762 crystal beads and is decorated with 456 lights. With a height of 6 meters and weighing at 3,215 kg, it is worth US $1,005,000.

World Biggest Tree
A Christmas tree lighting ceremony was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Nov 26. According to Guinness World Records, the 82-meter-tall tree decorated with 2.8 million colorful bulbs is the biggest one in the world.








OTHER UNUSUAL TREES


Beer Bottle Tree - made from beer bottles.


Shelf Tree - creatively made from books and magazines
Aluminium Tree
made from non-corrosive high quality aluminium foil.

Ribbon Tree


Morning Dew can Tree

Chinese Bamboo Tree
Wire Tree
Lego Tree
Crocheted Tree
Upside Down Tree to save space
Floating Christmas Tree
Placed at Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon. It weights 530 tons, has 85m and 2.9 million lights. It keeps getting bigger every year. From Dec 1st to Jan 6th, every night after dark the lights sparkle and change colours constantly. Every 30 min there is a "water ballet".

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