General Discussion & Chat: Here's My Christmas Tree, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
Here is our rather abundant tree. It is appears to be extravagant, but a huge number of the ornaments were ones culled from our stores. We sold vast quantities of ornaments for 20 years and there was always a lot of breakage to recycle. So a great deal or these have missing limbs, or sizable holes in them or other significant damage. It is truly a tree of sorry characters but scattered among them are some that are old family treasures. Most precious are my DH's 50 year old cub scout handiwork, his Bake-a-bobble ornaments. We always put a mass of old red birds at the top. This started during a very sad christmas that we had to have in Fla in 1980 when my DH's dad was dying. We were determined to have a tree, but we could find almost nothing we would want to buy, so we bought a bunch of these birds and a roll of red velvet ribbon and tied the tree with tiny bows and silver jingle bells (which we still hang) and the birds. Then we bought a live Norfolk pine to decorate. After Christmas we planted that tree and it is still growing in his honor in the Fla Keys. I will post a second collage of my christmas prunings. I go out a cut lots of things from our yard to make decorations out of each year. I just pile lots of the greenery and winterberry together to decorate the house. Quick and no cost. While pruning a cedar I found the bird nest, so it became part of the decoration. This year I made a gum drop tree for the kitchen using branches bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva ursi and some gummy worms. My ode to bag worms sure to come. Happy holidays. Patti