Originally Posted By Lisann22 December 14, 2005 - Question of the day: What is the one ornament, figurine, picture or decoration that you must put up each year or it just doesn't seem like the holidays for you?
Originally Posted By Lisann22 I have this beautiful musical scene that I bought at Target several years ago. It's my most favorite and meaningful Christmas decoration I own. It's a moving musical scene of the birth of Christ. The three wisemen with their camels go around the village as they come to the manger, each wiseman and camel turn towards baby Jesus and bow a bit. It's rather large about 3' x 2 feet. There are cows, lambs, other village people, an angel above, with Mary and Jospeh. It's quite beautiful with palm trees, a well, abode like walls, etc. The manger is lit up so it's very pretty at night. It plays 25 different Christmas hymns.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Mrs. 2oon and I were married in November of '85. For our first Christmas in our little apartment, my grandmother took Mrs. 2oon to a shop to buy some Christmas ornaments. Among the ornaments was a little wooden grate with three little turkey heads sticking out between the slats that bob up and down, and the crate is stenciled "SHIP ON DEC. 24". Just a silly little ornament, but it meant so much to me that my grandma invited Mrs. 2oon out for a nice day of ornament shopping and lunch.
Originally Posted By -em My angel tree- Its a tree that has an ornament with a name for each person that I've lost- Its the first and last thing (and this year basically the only thing) I put up. -em
Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 Every year since our first Christmas together in 1993 me and my husband each buy a dated ornament of some sort as a gift for each other. It's fun to pull them all out and say "hey remember this one?".
Originally Posted By tapdancemom Lisa, that sounds beautiful, is that the Dept. 56 piece you were talking about? I have "baby's 1st Christmas" balls that must be up each year.
Originally Posted By wendebird I have a tree topper that I've had since I was a kid. It's worn & tattered a bit, but it holds so many happy memories, it simply must be on our tree each year. It's a star, but the center is clear (plastic& diamond cut) inside is a cylinder of multi colored circles. Inside the cylinder is a clear bulb. When it heats up, the cylinder will turn. Then the colored light reflect through the clear center of the star & projects random shapes & colors all over the wall & ceiling. I can remember so many quiet evenings as a kid just lying on the sofa, watching the colors & patterns change. Thinking to myself it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.
Originally Posted By kmsandrbs A Christmas tree. Even if we are hardly going to be around, I want some kind of tree up, and decorated.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I like to put up my castmember ornament from '94 even though it is pretty tattered. It just bring backs good memories. My wife has some ornaments she made as a kid and we like to put those up every year too.
Originally Posted By Labuda a hand-crocheted doorknow hangers that's red white & green with a bell on it. Not the holidays until that's on the inside of my front door.
Originally Posted By Big Thunder sorry, cant do just one on this tickle question... we have a creche nativity scene set that was my parents, I remember it as far back at all my childhood Christmas'. The figures are just plaster/ceramic but the detail is a quality that you just dont see anymore. This used to be be set up on our big ol Zenith console TV (memer those big things that were part of the living room furniture?.) It is very beautiful and sentimental, If given a must choice, I'd rather have that set up than a Christmas tree and I take pride in our Christmas trees. There are many Christmas tree ornaments that are must do. In fact, recently we've been saying that almost single ornament we use has some sort of meaning. Must do's include... A snowman from my childhood a 1987 first Christmas [were were married in 87] a few 1990 baby's first Christmas a ceramic Santa Mickey from a DL trip before we married one that Lil Thunder made at a Micheal's kids crafts day in 1995 many DisneyLAND ornaments, I'm almost to a point that I could do a DisneyLAND theme tree all by itself. Mrs Thunder has a few special Tinkerbell ornaments.
Originally Posted By DISDANCEMOM I love christmas...our main tree is made up of little angels that my mother in law made for us the 1st year we were (1984) married then there is my daughter's little tree made up of all of her ornaments that she has been given by her friends. my husband tree is in his game room,it has nascar and bud ornaments.this year by daughter gave me the cinderella tree top so we now have the most wonderful cinderella tree it is white will blue ornaments and lots of blue ribbon running down from the top and the ornaments that disney give's to the cm on there family holiday party.every room in our home is done for christmas so we have little reminders of all of the wonderful things that friends and family have given us over the years.and yes we are one of those people who have a front yard looks like the north pole.
