For all those who are interested, and all those who I pushed to do the same thing, here's our tree. It looks a lot less fake in life and a lot prettier, but it's very hard to get the lights to come out right in pics. Take a pic of your tree and see what I mean.
Yes, that's a Winter Jack-In-The-Box head on top of the tree. We've never gotten around to buying a star, despite the fact I'd like one. We had a big gold tacky bow and a star made of aluminum foil around cardboard before. Slowly, we work our way up ^_^