Favorite Christmas tree ornament?

CMGragain

Tell me about your favorite ornament.  I have two overstuffed boxes of mostly Hallmark ornaments.  I think my current favorite is the motion ornament of the melting Wicked Witch from the Wizard of Oz.  They used Margaret Hamilton's voice, and she screams while the witch figure vanished into the floor.
What ornament do you love?

lyndausvi

Oddly, my ex gave me a beautiful french horn, flowers and a bird.    I've had it since 1992.  I hate him, but it's my favorite ornament.    Luckily it has nothing to do with him, but it's such a great ornament.

hellohkb

I have a love for "Christmas mice". My all time favorite ornament is a little mouse dressed up in her Christmas best with a piece of clove inside. I couldn't find her this year, so not sure where she's hiding

My other favorite ornaments are a few my parents got before I was even born. One is of a white sled, the other a snowflake, and a third is of lovely white bell. Very classic and pretty.

charlotte989875

I have these 1950s, thin-painted glass ornaments from my grandmother. They're blue and pink, and bright colored. I love them, and they remind me of Christmases at her house. I'm afraid to put them up because I'll never be able to replace them if cat and/or dog go exploring in the Christmas tree.

ericasm0703

Wow, I'm having such a hard time picking just one! My mom bought us an ornament each year as kids, and she always picked some really beautiful/fitting ornaments to remember each year. I truly love all of them, and the memories that come with them. I get emotional about the ornament that my fiancé got me for our first Christmas together, which is Winnie the Pooh and Piglet waiting up for Santa (I still love Winnie the Pooh and his friends). I had lost both of my great-grandparents two weeks apart right before Christmas that year, and my great-grandmother (a huge Winnie the Pooh fan as well) would always say "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard" before we left from visiting with them. FI had that quote written on the back of the ornament. It always sit as close to the angel as possible on our tree.

emmaaa

I'm with PPs, it's hard to choose just one. My parents have always given my brothers and me an ornament every year for Christmas and now DH and I get one every year. I woul dhave to say my favorite is my "Baby's first Christmas" ornament. It's a little sleeping angel and made of white porcelain. It broke a few years ago and we glued it back together and it can't hang on the tree so it just sits on my dad's mantle.

cgss11

I don't have many keepsake type yet, but a friend took my wedding invitation and cut it in curls, and placed it in a glass bulb as part of her gift. I didn't have any extra invitations so I liked being able to have that.

WinstonsGirl

So many to pick from, but probably my "Baby's First Christmas".  It's a ball with a stork, and it had stickers so my parents put my name, birthdate, weight, size, etc. on the other size.  

holyguacamole79

WinstonsGirl said:

So many to pick from, but probably my "Baby's First Christmas".  It's a ball with a stork, and it had stickers so my parents put my name, birthdate, weight, size, etc. on the other size.  

Ditto. Mine doesn't have the details, but is a standard Hallmark "Baby's First Christmas 1979" I still store it in the original box.

I also like this one. When I was in Jr high, my parents renovated our kitchen immediately following thanksgiving. The pots, pans, etc were stored in the living room, so we really couldn't decorate for Christmas until the week before. I was off for school, so I did most of the decorating and wrapping. Mom gave methis ornament as a thank you. I've always loved it.

banana468

I have too many!   We get them every year in honor of family events.   The tops that come to mind:

-The replacement "our first Christmas" ornament that DH bought me.   The first one fell and smashed and I was so bummed that it broke.   DH went on the internets and found one in Belleek china with our wedding year.   It totally appealed to the Irish sentimental girl I am.

-My former boss printed a picture on metal last year of my daughter holding my son on his actual birthday.   There's something wonderful and pure about it and I cherish it.

-My grandmother gave me Waterford ornaments in honor of my first child.   This is the first Christmas without her so I'm extra happy to have those.

And I love, love LOVE our topper.   DH's aunt and Godmother makes dolls by hand from scratch.   She starts with the modeling clay and she creates beautiful figures.   Our Christmas angel was a shower gift from her and she is just spectacular.    

jenna8984

I don't have any from when I was younger (no idea what my parents did with them since they don't have them either). So my favorites are ones my husband and I have collected together, from various countries.

My parents don't do a tree anymore but they have this 1 ornament I made in kindergarten of a paper angel wings with a picture of my face in the face. They hang that on their fridge each year and call it their tree lol.

wandajune6

My parents started collecting ornaments when they got married. Since my mom was raised Jewish and never had a tree while my father was raised Christian but broke and never had money for one, it was a fresh start. Today, we don't have a tree out our house but decorate the tree at my parent's. It works better- we don't have the space for one but spend Christmas day with my parents. My parents have made it clear that once we start having our own tree, they're planning on passing a bunch of ornaments to us.

Most ornaments are from travel- we have a family tradition of buying ornaments whenever we travel. We also have a few that we made as kids, random gifts, etc. I get sentimental about lots of them.

My favorite remains Burnt Butt. Burnt Butt was one of two gingerbread men made out of dough (and shellacked or something, I guess) that my aunt made for my sister and me when we were born. The plan was to decorate them with our names for our first Christmas. One ended up with a burnt butt, obviously. The other was broken in the mail from when she sent them.

It's ugly but it's survived 36 years with it's little burnt butt. Impressive.

luckya23

I bought 2 on vacation this year, and they are the only ones I put up. So I guess they are my favorite right now!

AddieCake

At home, we decorate the tree with pine cones and simple gold balls, so no ornaments here, but my Honors students do a project for me where they make a literary-based ornament, and my favorite this year is a Questing Beast from The Once and Future King.  

ShesSoCold

My mom bought us those Hallmark "son" and "daughter" ornaments every year. As kids, we didn't give one shit about them but now I think they're cool. When they discontinues them, she bought us each an ornament that "fit" us. Last Christmas, after she had died, my stepdad found several Hallmark ornaments in boxes with the Christmas stuff. She had stocked up in case she didn't like any of the new ones for the upcoming years. Those are my favorite.

sunflower0592

I have probably 8 or 9 ornaments that are my favorites, and I keep them in their own box separate from the rest of the ornaments. But my favorite one, out of those favorites, is a snowflake ornament that belonged to my mother. She passed a few years ago so that makes it all the more precious to me. I don't put it away after Christmas, it stays in a special box on my dresser the rest of the year. It's from Ireland, and she got it as a gift. It's porcelain and has little jewels in it. It's beautiful. 

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NavyBlue143

We have a fused glass ornament that's two penguins leaning into one another to form a heart shape. H and I both love penguins. We had it made the first Christmas we were married. My parents have a Waterford ornament they bought their first Christmas as a family that sits front and center in their tree, and our penguin sits front and center in ours. When we have kids we'll have matching baby penguins made.

peachy13

DH and I buy an ornament anytime we go on a vacation together (including overnights or fun day trips to a different state), so all of those are special. I usually write the location and year on the bottom of the ornament.

My favorite though is this one, bought during our vacation to Disney World last winter, prior to our wedding. We had the store personalize it to say "Halloween 2015" on the back.

ClaraGrace

A porcelain bell with the Nativity carved in the side is my second favorite ornament and favorite on my tree.

My favorite is my mother's St Elizabeth ornament.  But that's out on display year round, and I'm too nervous to place her on the tree for fear of breaking her.

randomslove

Mine is a beautiful French horn ornament my mother pointed out to me my first year living alone. (Gold and sparkling; I played French horn in band when I was a kid.)

My favorite decoration is my stocking at her place (since I'm there pretty much every Christmas). It's blue and features a mermaid holding a wreath of seashells. Pretty perfect for me, since I'm a mermaid. Also, it's very sentimental. The first Christmas after I'd joined the military (and the year after the only Christmas I'd ever missed), she lost a box of decorations that included some she'd had for 30+ years. My dad sent us to an address without telling us where it lead, saying only that my mom should get whatever she wanted. It was a very expensive little Christmas store. We looked around at all the beautiful things, but the prices were higher than she wanted to pay. "I'll just go to T.J. Maxx later." Until she saw the mermaid stocking... She showed it to me, saw that I thought it was beautiful, and bought it without a second thought. Every time I see it, it reminds me how she knows me better than I know myself.

ILoveBeachMusic

banana468 said:

I have too many!   We get them every year in honor of family events.   The tops that come to mind:

-The replacement "our first Christmas" ornament that DH bought me.   The first one fell and smashed and I was so bummed that it broke.   DH went on the internets and found one in Belleek china with our wedding year.   It totally appealed to the Irish sentimental girl I am.

-My former boss printed a picture on metal last year of my daughter holding my son on his actual birthday.   There's something wonderful and pure about it and I cherish it.

-My grandmother gave me Waterford ornaments in honor of my first child.   This is the first Christmas without her so I'm extra happy to have those.

And I love, love LOVE our topper.   DH's aunt and Godmother makes dolls by hand from scratch.   She starts with the modeling clay and she creates beautiful figures.   Our Christmas angel was a shower gift from her and she is just spectacular.    

I would love to see a picture of that topper!

ILoveBeachMusic

My Dad was in the Navy and stationed in Italy when I was born. My parents had several old style European glass ornaments from that time. My favorite was a head of a boy with a red nose - I called him Pinnochio. My brother's cat climbed the tree one year and knocked Pinnochio off the tree and broke his cheek. I glued him back together. He is still my favorite even though he isn't as pretty as he was originally. I hang him on our tree every year. He is about 55 years old.