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| texdane |
Posted - Nov 11 2015 : 12:05:30 PM
Hi Farmgirls,
I'm playing Christmas music today, and got to thinking. I can't wait to pull out my Christmas decorations. What are your most special, treasured ornaments, and why?
I'll go first. I have a glass bell that was given to me when I was four by the great lady that lived across the street when I was growing up. She was a grandmother to me, just not by blood. I loved her so much, and she always gave special, keepsake gifts. I wish I still had the handmade pin cushion that used to hang in my room on the wall, stuffed with my childhood hair (from haircuts), or the hand beaded stocking (ruined in a flood). But I still have the bell. It's porcelain and goes in the china cabinet at Christmas instead of on the tree.
Another special decoration is the one my husband and I bought together for our first tree. "First Christmas together" it says. 23 years old now.
One I leave out all year is one my baby girl made in kindergarten. It's now eight years old.
And last but not least, the handmade paper bowls from MaryJane and Meg that are crafted from vintage Christmas cards and once appeared in a Christmas issue of MaryJanesFarm. They are very, very special and sit in a place of honor in my favorite room.
What special decorations do you have?
Farmgirl Hugs,
Nicole
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| ceejay48 |
Posted - Dec 30 2015 : 6:48:55 PM
Bonnie,
Love your little displays! Thanks!
CJ
..from the barefoot farmgirl in SW Colorado...sister chick #665.
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| Bonnie Ellis |
Posted - Dec 30 2015 : 6:20:47 PM
My bookcases are new this Christmas. We got two of them at Fleet Farm and the boxes were six feet long. We have a Honda Fit and they just fit. I was driving but there was no room for my hubby. lol. We had to have our son pick up the book cases in his car to bring them home. Still laughing.
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| Red Tractor Girl |
Posted - Dec 30 2015 : 05:28:03 AM
Bonnie and Audra, these miniatures are so cute! I love how you have al the Christmas scenes tucked away on shelves , Each shelf is like a shadow box of holiday fun!
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
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| Bonnie Ellis |
Posted - Dec 29 2015 : 7:27:31 PM
Here are a few more. 
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| Bonnie Ellis |
Posted - Dec 29 2015 : 7:26:03 PM
Here are some pictures of my Christmas treasures. 
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| texdane |
Posted - Dec 14 2015 : 07:59:36 AM
Oh! I love this. It is awesome to see what everyone has and cherishes...different decorations like different personalities.
I saw some antique salt and pepper shakers in a store, but didn't pick them up because I really don't need them. They weren't expensive, but we were supposed to be shopping for everyone else. I got home, wishing I had picked them up. So my hubby found some on Ebay and had them shipped to me! He really surprised me. I'll think of that each year when they get put out.
Farmgirl Hugs,
Nicole
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| Bonnie Ellis |
Posted - Dec 10 2015 : 7:45:14 PM
That's quite a collection Vanessa. Love the doxies on sleds. Thanks for the pix
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| Audra Rose |
Posted - Dec 10 2015 : 07:36:33 AM
  
This is my shelf at work. I've put up my sledding doxies, my little girl spying on Santa (have to add a fireplace), and a nativity. Thank goodness for Double-sided tape!
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| Audra Rose |
Posted - Dec 09 2015 : 10:20:30 AM
My favorite ornaments are a bunch of decorated puffed glass hearts that I bought in Rothenberg ob Der Tauber Germany. It was our first visit back since we were stationed there in the Air Force. I had never been there, but knew of the world famous Christmas store. It was wonderful, packed with everything Christmas - and my husband let me run wild. Now I look for glass hearts everywhere.
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| Denise Ann |
Posted - Dec 02 2015 : 7:59:11 PM
Most of the ornaments I had were my daughters, when she moved to her own place I packed them up for her. That left me with few ornaments, so I started buying vintage glass ornaments. I have found them in antique shops or estate sales. My daughter bought me a sleeping beauty ornament from her honeymoon at Disney world, so I am looking forward to putting that on the tree this year.
Denise Ann |
| Lady in Pearls |
Posted - Dec 02 2015 : 1:48:12 PM
My stocking would probably be the most sentimental decoration. My mother made it when she was pregnant with me. It is one of those felt kits with stuffed characters and edged in beads and sequins. It stays at her house with the one she made for my sister, but it's still my favorite decoration.
Ornament-wise, I have two Victorian boots and two Victorian ladies dressed in feathers and velvet with China faces that my mother bought me when I was young that are both beautiful and sentimental. There is also a Barbie collection (1992-2003) that comes out every year, despite my husband's eye-rolling. My cousins and I would exchange ornaments at thanksgiving every year when we were younger and they remind me of them.
This year, my son is two and I had idea to give Christmas ornaments to grandparents. Last year was a "Mistle-toes" wall canvas of his footprints and I'm kicking myself for not making one for our house, so this year, I had him paint an ornament for us. It's not even finished and I already cherish it! I can't wait until he brings decorations home from school one day
“If more of us valued good food and cheer above hoards of gold, it would be a merrier world." - Tolkien
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| Red Tractor Girl |
Posted - Dec 02 2015 : 06:29:49 AM
What a beautiful wooden pyramid and what a wonderful memory it has with it! I bet it is lovely all lit up and twirling about.
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
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| katmom |
Posted - Dec 01 2015 : 10:14:49 PM
( you can see it on the coffee table, left end.. and are moving things out of the room to get ready for the Tree.)
A tradition,, that my family did as I was growing up both in the USA and Germany.. was to display every December, a wooden 'Pyramid'.. with 6 candles at the base to generate enough heat to make the horizontal windmill turn,,, thus the little figurines would turn...
The one I have been using for the past 20 years is from my childhood best friend, Irmgard,,, who lives in Germany.. Her family lived next door to my grandparents and when I lived with my grandparents I was treated as one of their own kids...
Irmgard and I joke that we are sisters separated at birth...
Every year I display my pyramid... and we light the candles on Sunday evenings.
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
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| YellowRose |
Posted - Dec 01 2015 : 12:08:30 PM
I can't say it's my favorite Christmas thing, but it's the one I put out every year no matter what is happening in my life. My son made it in elementary school but since I didn't date it I don't remember how old he was. He's in his 40s so it's got to be 30 something years old.
It's a cardboard Santa with it's legs & arms attached with brads and all strung together on a cord. When you pull the cord the arms & legs move. It's hanging on my china cabinet door and it makes me smile every time I pull it.
Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015.
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| ceejay48 |
Posted - Dec 01 2015 : 10:00:35 AM
This ceramic heart is a very special decoration. It was made and given to me by two brothers who were in the children's choir at church and it was a thank you gift for directing them in their Christmas musical. I don't know what year the musical was but this ornament went through our house fire in July 1994 and came out unscathed! And yes, "Wise men still seek Him"! Of course, these brothers are now grown, married and with children of their own . . 
CJ
..from the barefoot farmgirl in SW Colorado...sister chick #665.
2010 Farmgirl Sister of the Year
Mother Hen: FARMGIRLS SOUTHWEST HENHOUSE
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living life - www.snippetscja.blogspot.com
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from my hubby - www.aspenforge.blogspot.com |
| texdane |
Posted - Nov 28 2015 : 06:49:02 AM
Bonnie, Post a pic of the sheep!
Farmgirl Hugs,
Nicole
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Chapter Leader, Connecticut Simpler Life Sisters
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| Bonnie Ellis |
Posted - Nov 24 2015 : 11:08:35 PM
I love all my ornaments, especially the ones made by or given by family but my favorite was a tiny plaster sheep I got from my uncle when I was small. As an adult I began to add a new sheep each year to my flock. They are rounded up inside a wooden fence around a 16 " feather tree. Of course I love the wood nativity set my husband I bought in our first Christmas together 53 years ago.
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| texdane |
Posted - Nov 24 2015 : 07:44:06 AM
Hi Krista,
I love your stocking story. The lady who lived across the street from me when I was born was amazingly talented. She worked as a designer for Neiman Marcus (not just a seamstress, but designer. She was ahead of her time!)and she could sew, quilt, design, you name it. She made me a white and pink hand beaded stocking that hung over my bed as a child. It was shaped like a pink cowgirl boot! Oh I wish I still had it. It was one of those things that was lost when we moved after my parents divorced.
Shannon, I always wanted a nativity and I want to say I've had mine close to twenty years or more now. It's porcelain and beautiful. I paid a lot for it, but not as much as retail since it was from Costco. I recently saw them (similar to mine) but now they are resin. That will be something I will hand down to my daughter. It is so pretty, and large. I'd love to see a post of your collection!
Christina, so sweet! Don't you miss the days of when children are small. Christmas is so magical then.
Farmgirl hugs and ho ho ho,
Nicole
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| RedClover |
Posted - Nov 22 2015 : 3:02:37 PM
My most precious decorations are the ornaments that my children made in preschool and elementary school. I can still remember them coming home from school, so excited to give me they're little gifts, wrapped in tissue paper :). Every year since 1998, the top of our tree has been adorned with a little angel my daughter made from a toilet paper roll when she was 5.
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| hudsonsinaf |
Posted - Nov 11 2015 : 9:00:20 PM
I am a Nativity collector... The first Christmas my hubby and I were married, he bought me aNativity set that is made from porcelain and paper mâché.
~ Shannon
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| MaryJanesNiece |
Posted - Nov 11 2015 : 8:01:48 PM
My favorite Christmas decoration just so happens to be my Christmas stocking. My grandma made it for me when I was born, considering I was only a week old when I celebrated my first Christmas! It holds a special place in my heart knowing how much work she put into making the stocking along with all the tiny intricate details. Its days like this when I reminisce on the past that I wish she was still here to help me make one for my little baby so he could enjoy his for years to come as I have. I do have plans to use some of her material in making his stocking so he will have a part of her at Christmas as well.
Krista |
