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?
Re: Favorite Christmas tree ornament?
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.
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.
-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 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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.