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| Alee |
Posted - Oct 10 2011 : 06:59:20 AM
Does anyone have a decoration or something that just really means "Holiday" to you?
I remember always being facinated with the Bubble Lights at Christmas time so I am on a mission this year to find and buy some for our house! I know I have seen them online so If I have to- I am going to order them online!
Alee
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| TeresaJ25 |
Posted - Oct 21 2011 : 05:38:32 AM
Ginny, what a beautiful story.
~Teresa
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| Oggie |
Posted - Oct 19 2011 : 7:10:24 PM
I have many traditions and memories that make it "Christmas" for me but I have one story I have to tell you all of a memory I have of my real father.
When I was 5 years old he decided we were going to drive from Minnesota to Florida for Christmas to meet some relative of his. This was a major deal because we NEVER took vacations as we couldn't afford them. As it was, we ate at the rest stops out of the trunk the entire way because we couldn't afford to go to a restaurant and Dad would drive into the night to avoid motels. Anyway, it's late one night and we are driving and I'm making noise and fighting with my brothers when all of a sudden my Dad says to me, be quite, the man on the radio is talking to you and you need to listen. So I immediately shut up and heard "Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus" read by Paul Harvey. I was so amazed to think he was talking to me personally! I was so AWWWWWWED by that!!! That year I also got a real store bought doll as my only Christmas present and you guessed it, it was a Ginny doll! I felt twice blessed that year! My Dad died 4 years later but I will never forget that night as long as I live.
Ginny Brown
Ginny
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| njaw09 |
Posted - Oct 19 2011 : 6:13:36 PM
Dawn-
The price range is from 29.95-39.95 at the Vermont Country Store. Love that catalog. |
| windswept |
Posted - Oct 19 2011 : 6:00:52 PM
I've enjoyed reading everyone"s decorating memories. I have seen bubble lights in "the Vermont Country Store" catalog, I don't know what the price range.They are fun to watch!!
lovin the country |
| Alee |
Posted - Oct 18 2011 : 9:33:42 PM
I have seen bubble lights for sale online and am thinking of ordering some. I will be getting the new versions because the old ones were a huge fire hazard- but I can't wait until I can expose Nora to them. They are so much fun!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Oct 18 2011 : 10:44:24 AM
Good for you, Annika--we've really been enjoying the sunshine through the ones we made for our house, and our mil's. Like nature's stained glass!
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
The Only Living Boy in New York, Paul Simon |
| Annika |
Posted - Oct 18 2011 : 10:00:50 AM
I'm now looking for bubble lights too! When i was real little my paternal grandma and step-grandpa had a lot of these and I just loved to stand by the tree and look at them!
Jonni, we have finally cooled of enough here to really start seeing the leaves turn and fall! I have pressing leaves on my Autumn 2011 bucket list! 
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
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| countrymommy85 |
Posted - Oct 18 2011 : 09:25:56 AM
Alee, do you have Menards by you? They sold reproduction bubble lights last year, I also saw them at Fleet Farm/ Farm and Fleet but I don't think you have them out west...
Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee. ~Author Unknown
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| Christy925 |
Posted - Oct 18 2011 : 09:18:48 AM
My Christmas Memory is the stockings. The best part of Christmas...fancy candy, nail polish, a new book, an orange, 4-50 cent pieces. My children loved their stockings too. When they got older and we needed to cut back...they requested that I still make them stockings. I would do anything to bring back that time in my life, when my children were home.
Farmgirl Sister #2315
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| Amie C. |
Posted - Oct 14 2011 : 4:21:04 PM
Jonni, we used to iron leaves too! (My mom always used the towel.) We also ironed fine crayon shavings instead of leaves to make kaleidoscope effects.
One thing I always loved at Thanksgiving was that we got to open the china cabinet and get out special things to set the table. I still remember the dusty, waxy smell of the turkey shaped candles. I might look for some of those when I go to Wegmans later tonight. |
| dutchy |
Posted - Oct 14 2011 : 1:18:06 PM
I will have to buy a new tree this year, my *old* one broke last year. I will buy a smaller one though, I never put it out to it's complete hight of over 6 feet lol. My l.room is not so big so could do with a smaller one. I always put in pink balls and other off white and pink decorations :)I have some real old baubles from my grandmom's sister. They are at least 75 yrs old and very very fragile. I don't use them in the tree, sometimes put them in a bowl :)
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| FieldsofThyme |
Posted - Oct 14 2011 : 05:46:08 AM
The one thing that makes me, and my siblings laugh, about Christmas is our memories of decorating the Christmas tree. Growing up, the first thing to go on the tree (after lights) and the last thing to come off was the silver tinsel (very thin strips of tinsel). Mom would have us put it on the tree, one piece at a time, and then when it came down, we took it off one piece at a time, and saved it from year to year. We always had a real tree also.
Each year when we decorate our own tree, I share that story, and laugh. I still have an ornament one of my Aunts made for me. It's a styrofoam ball with sequins and beads and it's very pretty. Ornaments like that remind me of past years. I also have ornaments that my grandmother crocheted. Our manger goes up every Christmas also. As a child we had one that had a light inside it. As for tree lights, we had the large bulbs on our trees, never the small ones you see on most trees today. I would love to use the larger ones this year.
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| one_dog_per_acre |
Posted - Oct 13 2011 : 07:12:39 AM
I really feel for you. My childhood home burnt to the ground about eight years ago. I cherish everything that was salvaged. My favorite Christmas things were ornaments I made with my sister when I was 9. We were dirt poor, and all the gifts were second hand. We pinned sequins on styrofoam balls, and used pipe cleaners for the hook. quote:
Originally posted by ceejay48
A handmade ceramic star ornament that two boys in my children's choir made for me as a gift after our Christmas children's musical. It has a drawing of the 3 wise men on it and says "Wise Men Still Seek Him". What makes it so very special is that it survived, with the ribbon hanging loop intact, a horrible house fire where we lost our house, everything in it and trees, bushes, etc. around our house.
The musical was in the 1980's sometime, our fire was in July 1994. These boys are grown and married.
It just has such significant meaning to me.
CJ
..from the barefoot farmgirl in SW Colorado...sister chick #665.
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Trish
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Oct 13 2011 : 06:44:20 AM
@Tina--I love that you have a red cosco step stool, too! I still remember being a little girl, sitting in Grandma Helen's kitchen on Park Street. She had that old linoleum that looked like red brick (?) and she had roosters and hens on the walls and this red stool sat right by the counter and whenever she cooked or baked anything on the big ole stove, she made me sit up there to keep me safe, but so I could still watch.
When she passed, I took that stool and her old Chromex aluminum cannisters (she had them all, tea to cookie) because they were my favorite memories--ever! I use both the stool and the cannisters each and every day. Violet will say, "mahmee, I sit down?" and pats the metal seat.
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Oct 13 2011 : 06:29:13 AM
Please do borrow that memory and make a new tradition of your own, girls! You'll love the end result. I also cut some in "strips" and use them as bookmarks :)
Yes, Alee, you gather your leaves--I try to get some that aren't completely dry, but still have the flexibility in them. Put them in a design (I do spirals, or I lay one of each type I've found, and mix colors--yellow/red/brown/plums, etc...that way, you get a nice representation of all the leaves. When pressing the leaves between the sheets of waxed paper, after setting my design, I put a large book on top for a few minutes, then iron with a hot iron to "seal" the wax. You can use a hand towel under your iron (over the pressing) but I never do. When warm, the leaves release the neatest scent!
Enjoy!!!
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
The Only Living Boy in New York, Paul Simon |
| ceejay48 |
Posted - Oct 12 2011 : 7:34:18 PM
A handmade ceramic star ornament that two boys in my children's choir made for me as a gift after our Christmas children's musical. It has a drawing of the 3 wise men on it and says "Wise Men Still Seek Him". What makes it so very special is that it survived, with the ribbon hanging loop intact, a horrible house fire where we lost our house, everything in it and trees, bushes, etc. around our house.
The musical was in the 1980's sometime, our fire was in July 1994. These boys are grown and married.
It just has such significant meaning to me.
CJ
..from the barefoot farmgirl in SW Colorado...sister chick #665.
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From my Hands - www.cjscreations-ceejay.blogspot.com
through my lens - http://ceejayscamera.shutterfly.com/
from my Hubby - www.aspenforge.blogspot.com |
| pnickols |
Posted - Oct 12 2011 : 7:00:22 PM
I think it's the music for Christmas, Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis..the music my mom played for us. FOr my kids I think it's my village I put out every year. This year it's some new houses, the others got lost in our move |
| Alee |
Posted - Oct 12 2011 : 6:03:43 PM
I love that idea too Jonni!! So you put the dried leaf between two pieces of wax paper and iron them? Do you have to tape or anything?
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Oct 12 2011 : 4:46:07 PM
Jonni:
I love that tradition of Pressing Autumn leaves. What a wonderful visual memory for you and for your daughter.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
| oldbittyhen |
Posted - Oct 12 2011 : 2:15:22 PM
Jonni, what a great and sweet memory and tradition, I think if its ok with you, I would like to borrow that idea and try it here in my living room window...also I too have one of those red cosco step ladder/stool/chairs, that was my Moms, and it is used regulary in my home...
"Knowlege is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad" |
| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Oct 12 2011 : 12:12:08 PM
It occured to me after I posted about Halloween die-cuts and the avent calendar that I neglected to mention that one of my favorite "traditions" that my mother started with me, I continued with Violet on Sunday. Pressing Autumn leaves! I still remember living in West Virginia as a small girl, the wild wind blowing and us making the trek to the state park near Chester to collect brightly colored leaves to press between wax paper. Mom called it "welcoming Autumn" into our home, because after we were done, we hung the sheets up in the frames of our windows so that the sun could shine through and make the colors more vibrant.
Violet and I went to our local nature park, basket in hand, and found some lovely leaves, along with a ton of "a corn" (acorns--I think she thinks of the "a" in acorn as a identifier as opposed to part of the actual word :)) and then we came home to press them. She was so sweet, up on my grandmother's red metal cosco stool, watching me iron, sipping her apple cider. We made 3 for our home, and one for each grandmother (3).
Can't wait to do it again next year!
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
The Only Living Boy in New York, Paul Simon |
| Sharon Denise |
Posted - Oct 11 2011 : 7:54:24 PM
I love pulling out the Christmas stocking that my grandmother made me the year I was born. The felt is softer and not quite as plump as it was, but the sequins still sparkle! I miss her, and every time I hang the stocking, I think of her. I've carried on the tradition of making stockings, although I like to cross-stitch mine. Most of my most cherished decorations are still at my parents' house. I haven't quite found my own traditions yet.
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning."
~Louis L'Amour |
| Dorinda |
Posted - Oct 11 2011 : 5:49:10 PM
I get lots of compliments on my Christmas Tree every year. Most all of my ornaments were made by my children. I love all of them! Each ornament on my christmas tree reminds me of someone in my family!!
Seize The Day!
Dorinda |
| Beth Jones |
Posted - Oct 11 2011 : 3:23:16 PM
My aunt and grandmother always lived with us and growing up my aunt decorated. She had sweet little angel planters with plastic holy that she would always put out and a set of choir children singing among the greens on the mantle. Then my dad would bring in a cedar tree, didn;t have the hearty fir trees in the south. the cedar tree would smell so good, but the ornaments would all slip down on the tree skirt by Christmas day..They wouldn't stay on!! She also had some lovely blown ornaments that I still have. I put them in a large clear covered clear glass container and leave them out all year. They are still so beautiful!!! They are 50 years old!! Smiles, Beth
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| Alee |
Posted - Oct 10 2011 : 9:34:29 PM
That is too funny Angela!! I love the idea but I dont think Santa would like being in a guys bathroom and there is only one in my house. I might have to make something like that for the bathroom door. :)
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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