31 Days of Decorations: Day 23 Nana's Houses

My grandmother gave us these houses for Christmas for a few years. When I take them out and decorate with them, I always think of her.

 

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31 Day of Decorations: Day 22 Advent Tree

This is the first countdown to Christmas thing I bought myself. The ornaments are all numbered and each day a new one goes on. I think I got this our first married Christmas. I enjoyed decorating it each year and now the children do it.

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31 Days of Decorations: Day 21 Office Party Mishap

We used to exchange ornaments at work via a game whereby everyone would have to guess which ornament was for whom. We don't play any longer as it's too easy to guess when you've been together as long as we have, but this was mine one year. The year after *That* Christmss party. The one that I shall not speak of again.

 

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31 Days of Decorations: Day 20 Gramma Trees

These decorations aren't at my house, but at my Mom's. Formy nephew's first Christmas, my mom put a small tree up for him. Each year, he picked out an ornament for it that represented something from the year. When my kids (and my other nephews) were born, she added trees. Since I imagine that I will continue this tradition if i have grandchildren someday, I thought I'd share the origin.

 

 

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31 Days of Decorations: Day 19 1975 Badgley

We aren't really sure where this came from. Badgley is Mom's maiden name, but in 1975, that name had been long taken over by Dad's surname. So Mom doesn't remember this ornament, but it's been on my tree as an adult from our first Christmas. My best guess is that my step-grandmother, known for her particularly bad gift-giving skills (a blog topic for another day), had these made of HER married surname and gave away for gifts. Perhaps there was a deal for getting the same surname on all? Or maybe she just didn't care to remember everyone's different names? Regardless, I actually like this one.

 

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31 Days of Decorations: Day 18 Shooting Star

I got this when I worked for the hair salon in Palo Alto. One of our weekly clients gave it to me and I thought that was so wonderful.

 

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31 Days of Decorations: Day 17 Ballet

Signa started a dance class in 2005. She was this tiny little puff of a thing who listened to the teacher and then told everyone what to do. That year for her tree at Gramma's, Mom ordered these. But they were too big for the small tree, so they go on ours.

 

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