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sunshinemiss -> Favorite Decorations (12/13/2009 7:02:37 AM)

Hello everyone,
During this time of year there are people decorating for a variety of holidays.  I thought (based on the I Love thread) that we might like to share our stories with each other.  I'm specifically asking about decorations because I believe so much in physical things being representative of our inner lives.  It is really powerful.  But if it is a memory, that is cool.  *I remember one of the gals last year or the year before telling a story about M and M s that just touched everyone*

So, here's my favorite to get things rolling:

The last Christmas my grandfather was alive, I went out to visit him.  *That was a big tadoo, but it's another story*  Anyway, I surprised him with my (then) girlfriend and just showed up at his doorstep.  I came out to him before that but he'd never met her, but he was so gracious and so good about it.  He took me aside in the hallway outside his apartment and said to me - you know it's all the same ... It's all about the big "O" (and he made an ok sign with his hand and a big ole "I love you no matter what" grin on his face)... Well, he was not really a man of many words, but it sure did make me feel accepted and loved!

On our way out, we passed a tree that was in that hallway (He lived in a retirement home).  There was a little bell on that tree with a red ribbon.  I stole it.  Yes, I did.  I wanted something to remind me of that conversation and that love and his big grin!  Ever since then I've donated ornaments to nursing homes, hospitals, residential treatment facilities, etc. in honor of my grandfather.  That little bell is one of my most treasured posessions.

How bout you all?

sunshine



sirsholly -> RE: Favorite Decorations (12/13/2009 7:08:31 AM)

The tiny socks my son wore home from the hospital and a tiny sterling silver nativity scene that has Santa kneeling at the manger.



MasterG2kTR -> RE: Favorite Decorations (12/13/2009 8:35:05 AM)

Several of them come to mind. A couple that my kids made by hand in grade school. Some ornaments that I got when my grandmother passed away. They are all in excess of 60 yrs old now. Also my Hallmark collectibles: Star Trek ornaments which are all of the star ships from the various series.



QuirkyAnne -> RE: Favorite Decorations (12/13/2009 9:34:59 AM)

Mine are all the ornaments that my mom still has that I made as art projects in elementary school when the holiday season rolled around.  Out of all of them, the little clay Christmas tree ornament that I painted is the best because when I made it I thought it was the prettiest one in the whole class and my mom went wild with praise and appreciation when I brought it home.  As an adult, however, I know the truth and it is absolutely hideous!  And it goes on the tree every year with a lot of laughter.

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Anne



LadyHibiscus -> RE: Favorite Decorations (12/13/2009 11:10:41 AM)

I AM THE GRINCH but nonetheless, I have a favourite. I am the Queen of things Pooh, and the first year Hallmark came out with Pooh stuff my mom got a full set and decorated a wreath with them. One year, it "disappeared". We figured it had gotten accidentally thrown away, a thing that used to happen here. (lost my fave diamond ring that way, thanks grandma). Sadness and disappointment from me and mom, thank god one less fucking thing in the house from dad.

Anyway. Several years ago, I came home one day and that WREATH was on the kitchen table! I cannot tell you how overjoyed I was, the phrase "my heart leaped" made total sense to me. That wreath went up on on my bedroom door and hasn't been taken down since! It was on top of a box, wrapped in tissue, way under the basement stairs. I guess it was on its way to its storage box and never made it.

YAY POOH!



LinnaeaBorealis -> RE: Favorite Decorations (12/13/2009 1:23:13 PM)

The year of the "Christmas of the Previously Loved Gifts", I found a pattern in a craft magazine to make some ornaments.  This was over 30 years ago.  I could afford the supplies:  Paper doilies, scraps of yarn, staples & old-fashioned Christmas stickers.  Chelsea & I folded the round doilies in half, then rolled them into a cone shape, stapled them & put stickers on them.  We glued yarn handles on them with yarn bows & hung them on the nearly bare tree.  I hung those ornaments every year for 30 years.  This year I donated all of my Chirstmas stuff, including those.  That's a little bittersweet. [&:]

edited because His Evilness sent me a naughty text in the middle of this post & I lost my train of thought.  *gigglesnort*



windchymes -> RE: Favorite Decorations (12/13/2009 2:46:25 PM)

Bubble lights!  They're so silent and mesmerizing, I can sit and stare at them for hours.

And, I still hang "the ornament" on the tree that my 25 year old son made when he was in kindergarten.  They took slices of apples, rolled them in cinnamon and threaded them on a piece of twine.  The apples dried, and it had a nice cinnamony-apple smell....the first year.  That thing has grown mold and pretty much shrivelled up into a disgusting brown blob, and he begs me to throw it away, but I still hang it every year, along with every other little trinket or treasure that they made me while they were growing up. 



littlewonder -> RE: Favorite Decorations (12/13/2009 3:49:56 PM)

All the ornaments my daughter made as a child and the one she gets every single Christmas from me and the ones that were special to our family when her father was alive. Every year they go on the tree and each one holds a special memory for me of another passed year in her life.

These days she rolls her eyes and thinks I'm just ridiculous with them but for me they are very special.



Daddysredhead -> RE: Favorite Decorations (12/13/2009 4:00:22 PM)

Snowmen... I love snowmen.  I also love some of the things that have been around since I was a little girl.



GoddessImaginos -> RE: Favorite Decorations (12/13/2009 4:01:49 PM)

Lights, all colours, indoors and out, LOTS and LOTS of them all over everything..



sunshinemiss -> RE: Favorite Decorations (12/13/2009 4:06:57 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Daddysredhead

Snowmen... I love snowmen.  I also love some of the things that have been around since I was a little girl.



Ohhh Red... I forgot about one of the ornaments.  I'm sure you'd love it.  It's a snow man standing behind a snow woman (who has breasts - I'll have to tell Lookie)... and the snow man is diddling the snow woman... It's so hot they could melt!



Lucylastic -> RE: Favorite Decorations (12/13/2009 6:59:56 PM)

My Motherinlaw made some bead ornaments when we first came to canada and they were a welcome gift.That was 21 years ago, every ornament my three kids made at school, brownies, guides, cubs etc.
In 93 I bought a bunch of glitter glue, sequins and balls and let the kids do their own decorating, my youngest was two, my eldest was 7. So much fun and mayhem was had and they hang every year.
I also have a tigger and an eeyore:) my personal lil treats to myself




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