While the office spent the week in a shroud of secrecy induced by a five day Secret Santa gift giving extravaganza, our new Christmas tree stood out front in the sign-in area of our office welcoming guests and employees alike. This tree is a radical departure from Volusion’s previous holiday decorating. In our former office there was no organized decorating. We basically decorated our own desks and that was it. However, since we have a nice front room to display a tree in the new office this year we started a new Holiday tradition.

Being from New England originally I was thrilled to see a tree that actually looked like what I remembered from my childhood when my parents and I would go out in knee deep snow, old saw in hand, and cut down our tree every winter. Unlike many of the real trees I have seen for sale down here (that are far too shaggy for my liking) this tree was tall, firm, and beautiful. Imagine my surprise to find out (almost a week after the tree had gone up) that it was in fact an artificial tree! One of my coworkers explained to me that our tree is from Balsam Hill- makers of fine artificial trees. I consider myself a little bit of a Christmas tree expert, and honestly never thought I could like an artificial tree as much as I do the Volusion tree. Perhaps my favorite part of our tree is that I know year after year around the Holidays that same tree will be in the front area of Volusion reminding me of home and my childhood (minus the saw of course). I cannot go home this year to visit my family, but I am home in spirit when I see our Volusion Christmas tree.

-Kate Pierce eCommerce Specialist

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