It's a bit less than two weeks until Christmas for those of us who celebrate the holiday and things around my house are getting a mite hectic
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I love trees with history! I like ornaments that tell a story. I'm not putting up a tree this year as I'm going to be out of town for the holiday, and I kind of miss seeing my ornaments. Next year!
I have an ornament like that last one; it was a craft project for a church group I think. As I recall it involved swirling glitter and paint; they turned out kind of cool. Mine's swirly iridescent/ silvery white.
Your swirly white ornament sounds like it was made exactly like the ones we made. Surprisingly it was one of the least messy craft projects I've ever participated in-probably supposed to be messy, so we were extra careful or something.
Where are you going for Christmas? Are you visiting your Mom?
What fun - I particularly empathise with the paper making enterprise - I, too, have done projects with small people that have then needer to sit around for what felt like weeks to dry.
How sweet. I, too, have a boxful of those types of ornaments. All through elementary school, sunday school, cubscouts. Not to mention all the ones we made at home for others.
This year The Princelings decided to just put the "ball" type ornaments on the tree. When we (finally!) switched over to an artificial tree (read Manoah is cheap), it is too small to hold all our ornaments. So we have to pick and choose. Last year was all the glass and delicate "fancy" type ones. I think next year will be the handmade ones.
We've actually downsized our collection of Christmas tree ornaments and decorations-it was getting way out of hand. Our garage and attic was stuffed with huge plastic bins(two were filled to capacity with just fake greenery alone!) so last year we culled a bunch of the generic stuff and gave it to charity. Now I've just enough ornaments for a six or seven foot tree and my two table top trees.
Awe :) These memories you can't buy with money. It's just a treasure you have. I like the part with the nursing home especially because of It became a tradition and they still have little boys visiting their adopted "grandparents" ten years later.
Visiting that nursing home was one of the best ideas I think I ever had-the people there were so appreciative of my ten boys visiting. It really made them smile. And the boys got so much out of it, too-they spent many a happy hour planning what to do for their visits with their "older peoples." :-)
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I have an ornament like that last one; it was a craft project for a church group I think. As I recall it involved swirling glitter and paint; they turned out kind of cool. Mine's swirly iridescent/ silvery white.
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This year The Princelings decided to just put the "ball" type ornaments on the tree. When we (finally!) switched over to an artificial tree (read Manoah is cheap), it is too small to hold all our ornaments. So we have to pick and choose. Last year was all the glass and delicate "fancy" type ones. I think next year will be the handmade ones.
Lovely.
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We've actually downsized our collection of Christmas tree ornaments and decorations-it was getting way out of hand. Our garage and attic was stuffed with huge plastic bins(two were filled to capacity with just fake greenery alone!) so last year we culled a bunch of the generic stuff and gave it to charity. Now I've just enough ornaments for a six or seven foot tree and my two table top trees.
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These memories you can't buy with money. It's just a treasure you have.
I like the part with the nursing home especially because of It became a tradition and they still have little boys visiting their adopted "grandparents" ten years later.
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