How I want to decorate a Christmas tree

Christmas tree?  What?  Isn't it about as far away from Christmas as we could possibly get?  Yes, it is.  And don't I not really celebrate Christmas?  That is correct.  But that didn't stop me from being struck with a Christmas-type tree decorating idea.

Jade and stone ornament themed!

The idea came because I was trying to sell some of my father's old jewelry and took some of our old jade pieces like the one pictured above with to see if they had any value.  In the American jewelry world, apparently they do not.  So I've been brainstorming what else I can do with these pieces.  Pawn shops and a garage sale came up as ideas, and then I started thinking about some kind of wall art or house decoration piece.  The problem is the cut, color, and pattern of the pieces are all over the place and might not go that well right next to each other.  And then it hit me: winter tree decorations!

Now, I generally prefer secular, winter season type decorations over uber Christmas-y ones and matchy-matchy, Martha Stewart-esque decorating themes over years of mismatched and child-made family decoration collections.  I say prefer and generally because I've never had a place or the time to decorate for the winter season.  But someday I would like a tree.  And I will call it a winter-season-celebration tree.  And I will decorate it with many shades of green and gray stone and stone related decorations.  And I will finally have something to do with all our jade.

Maybe I'll leave it up until Chinese New Year and just call it a festival tree.