The Latest and the Earliest

We don't pick up Christmas ornaments every year anymore but this year we did, we got some from Erdbeere.  I really like them, they are what I'd call "old fashion".  Plus they have that "home-made" look.  Knowing Erdbeere, she most likely did make them herself.  At any rate, they came as a set and I really liked them so I got them.

And they fit well into the menagerie of ornaments that we have accumulated over the last forty plus years of Christmas trees.

Stars and orbs, "dusty" colors.  They fit well into my idea of good Christmas decorations.

This is our Christmas tree this year.  I think I have gotten a picture of our tree every year since we got married.  We have so many decorations that we've accumulated over the years that we don't even put them all on each year.  There are just too many.  But these new ones from Erdbeere and really nice.

Anyway, getting some new ones got me to thinking about our first Christmas. We had been married only several months when Christmas came.  It was easy enough to find a tree but we had no ornaments that year.  We had to actually go find some.

What we ended up getting was some little flat wooden ornaments, Brombeere found them.  They came as a kit, we got to paint them ourselves.  So we did that for Family Home Evening one Monday early in December that year.  When they were dry we hung them up and they've decorated our tree every year since.  We still have most of them.

I did some and Brombeere did some.  What a pair of artists!

Then we got some lights, made some chain garland with tin foil and put it up in front of the window of our first apartment.  It worked quite well for our first Christmas.  It was a real tree so it only did one year with us, but the other decorations were a great start to our fabulous collection that has grown almost every year since!

So, Merry Christmas!