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New Wave Outpost Message Board - Favorite Christmas Decoration
Now that we've hauled out (or are intending to haul out) those boxes of Holiday decorations from the basement/attic/garage/storage unit there must be one or 2 that are your favorites.
Maybe because of the sentimental value attached to it or maybe because it's design is so over the top.
Here's mine:
I have a small crystal angel Christmas ornament that my Godmother gave me.
She gave me several ornaments over the years but that one reminds me so much of her.
She was one of the loveliest people I ever knew, just like an angel herself.
She's been dead for 11 years now, but I think of her almost everyday.
I'm gonna log out now before I start weeping over my keyboard.
DayGloJo
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I love my ornaments that my son made me in school with his picture on them.
And tinsel. Lots and lots of tinsel.
Thats sweet Day Glo.
You should cry tears of happiness.
Having memories like that are awesome.
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I have 3 Hallmark collectable light up ornaments Star Trek TNG Enterprise NCC 1701D, NCC 74656 Voyager and a Space Shuttle (complete with EVA astronaut and satellite in the mini cargo hold!)
Love It!
(hopefully my youngins will too!)
P.S.
I also cherish my 4 Hess Trucks (1990, 1996, 1999, 2002)
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2Nu, you are too funny.
My favorites are the ones which my mom has passed down to me.
She gets stuff from her mother, who had received them from her mother, etc.
Lots of history. It's as if each ornament has a story with it.
I get all mushy when I have to take the decorations down.
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I love christmas ornaments & have been collecting them for quite a few years now.
I like the old glass ones from the 40's & 50's.
But, they can never replace a couple of my sentimental favorites.
Last year my mother gave me a snowman that has been on her tree ever since I can remember.
It's big - two glass balls, and a tall hat.
I really love him & can't believe she gave him up.
She's into the holidays as much as I am.
Everytime I look at him, I think of when I was little and how amazed I was at the tree & all those weird feelings you have about Santa - anticipation, fear, admiration, excitement.
My other favorite is a flat plastic red deer that was probably my grandmothers - very old art deco.
Of the recent ones - I have a fairly realistic looking crocodile dressed up in a santa suit waving.
It's not every day that you find an ornament like that!
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It's one of my mom's old ones probably about 50 years old a golden french horn with ruby-like jewels on it.
As a kid I'd pretend i was..."blowing" yeh go ahead and laugh boys!
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It's one of my mom's old ones probably about 50 years old a golden french horn with ruby-like jewels on it.
As a kid I'd pretend i was..."blowing" yeh go ahead and laugh boys!
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Hahahahaha! Oh I love that ornament!
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2Nu, you are too funny.
My favorites are the ones which my mom has passed down to me.
She gets stuff from her mother, who had received them from her mother, etc.
Lots of history. It's as if each ornament has a story with it.
I get all mushy when I have to take the decorations down.
I had this one simple clear glass ornament with white & green frosted stripes around the circumference that was on my birthyear Christmas tree.
This treasured item survived 8 moves (including one from NY to Fla and back) over a 40 year period.
When my mom finally entrusted it to me for my tree, I swaddled it in paper towels and placed it in the vest pocket of my coat.
Well, I got as far as the icy parking lot where I somehow lost my footing and fell forward against my vehicle..
(((Crunch))) End of story..
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Anybody remember the ornaments filled with colored liquid and they bubble when the tree is lit?
Oh, I have no favorites anymore because my wife decorates the tree now.
She decorates it in all Disney ornaments which is so not us anyway.
Why Disney? She is not even a fan!
Every time I look at the tree I want to hurl it out the window!
Or just hurl!
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Anybody remember the ornaments filled with colored liquid and they bubble when the tree is lit?
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I don't have any old ornaments, but I do have some sentimental favorites.
When we lived in Japan I collected lots of little charms and trinkets that I hang on a small tree.
Things like origami cranes, maneki neko figures (welcoming cat with one paw raised), wooden kokeshi dolls, wooden clog sandals, washi paper eggs, temari balls (wrapped with colored string in intricate designs), etc.
For an angel on top of the tree I have a handmade doll wearing a kimono.
I hang all these trinkets on an artificial bonsai tree, which is very Japanese looking and assymetrical.
Decorating this tree helps to relieve any homesickness that I have about missing Japan.
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[. This treasured item survived 8 moves (including one from NY to Fla and back) over a 40 year period.
When my mom finally entrusted it to me for my tree, I swaddled it in paper towels and placed it in the vest pocket of my coat.
Well, I got as far as the icy parking lot where I somehow lost my footing and fell forward against my vehicle..
(((Crunch))) End of story..
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Oh, I have no favorites anymore because my wife decorates the tree now.
She decorates it in all Disney ornaments which is so not us anyway.
Why Disney? She is not even a fan!
Every time I look at the tree I want to hurl it out the window!
Or just hurl!
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Sorry to hear that Nu.
I can relate though.
We lost several of my grandmothers' gorggeous old glass ornaments in the Great Christmas Tree Crash of 1994.
DayGloJo
BTW DGJ, was that unfortunate tree mishap attributed to the actions of a precocious / errant child or domestic feline?
I'm already bracing for the impending mayhem my 2 1/2 y/o son will certainly wreak on our holiday decorum...
No no.. hands off that!..don't touch!..leave the tinsel alone!..stay away from that power strip!..
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I have 3 Hallmark collectable light up ornaments Star Trek TNG Enterprise NCC 1701D, NCC 74656 Voyager .
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Nice! I have an entire smaller tree with nothing but Hallmark Star Wars and Star Trek ornaments.
My wife is very tolerant!
My favorite is the Klingon Bird of Prey!
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My favorite ornament is a Marvin the Martian that is sitting in a little spaceship.
When each of my three kids had their first Christmases, I bought them each a special Christmas ornament.
I love those, too, just because they make me remember when my kids were babies and not a grouchy 13-year-old, a drama-queen and a little booger
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My friends and I used to take turns hosting "Desecrate the Tree" parties.
Those events produced some truly memomrable ornaments.
My favorite had to be the strings of red and green gummi fish garland.
It beat the crap out of stringing cranberries and popcorn.
Ha ha!
I like the theme "Desecrate the Tree"!
That reminds me when some friends gave me a Raggedy Ann & Andy egg-shaped ornament.
It was decoupaged (badly) and had the glittery crap all over it.
Ever since then, I've been tempted to have a separate tree strictly for truly classless/horrible ornaments.
However, I think Philly's wife has the market cornered on that.
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Anybody remember the ornaments filled with colored liquid and they bubble when the tree is lit?
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Anybody remember the ornaments filled with colored liquid and they bubble when the tree is lit?
I bought a string of those this year - they're very cool - but get very hot.
They're probably not the best thing for a real tree.
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Anybody remember the ornaments filled with colored liquid and they bubble when the tree is lit?
I bought a string of those this year - they're very cool - but get very hot.
They're probably not the best thing for a real tree.
Wolverine,
Those Bubbling ornaments might make a pretty interesting statement combined with BffloGrl's gummy fish garland.
BTW, I'll be putting up my tree on Sunday so if you guys wanna stop by....
DayGloJo
I would love to help desecrate your tree.
I'll be over with a glue gun, gold spray paint, copies old Readers' Digest, styrofoam balls and a great big honking bottle of Carmenere.
Nothing on the north side of Syracuse says Christmas more than a slew of tacky magazine angels made by your drunken friends.
After we do the tree, do you want to head over to Solvay to see the Christmas display put up by the taxidermist?
Last year he had a bunch of stuffed coyotes driving a stuffed Santa around the yard in a micro rod racer while the stuffed reindeer served drinks under a cabana to a stuffed black bear in a Molson's hocky jersey.
I can't wait to see what he has in the yard this year.
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MAS, I'm with you, Disney sucks!
I made a whole thread a while back on how I think Disney is evil.
Anyway, I should get a fleet of Klingon birds of prey and arrange them to attack the disney ones.
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FOTFL!!!!
After a great big honking bottle of Carmenere, I'll be up for just about anything!
DayGloJo
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Anybody remember the ornaments filled with colored liquid and they bubble when the tree is lit?
I bought a string of those this year - they're very cool - but get very hot.
They're probably not the best thing for a real tree.
Wolverine,
Those Bubbling ornaments might make a pretty interesting statement combined with BffloGrl's gummy fish garland.
BTW, I'll be putting up my tree on Sunday so if you guys wanna stop by....
DayGloJo
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You probably think she's kidding too.
We'll send pictures.
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I don't have any old ornaments, but I do have some sentimental favorites.
When we lived in Japan I collected lots of little charms and trinkets that I hang on a small tree.
Things like origami cranes, maneki neko figures (welcoming cat with one paw raised), wooden kokeshi dolls, wooden clog sandals, washi paper eggs, temari balls (wrapped with colored string in intricate designs), etc.
For an angel on top of the tree I have a handmade doll wearing a kimono.
I hang all these trinkets on an artificial bonsai tree, which is very Japanese looking and assymetrical.
Decorating this tree helps to relieve any homesickness that I have about missing Japan.
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you probably think she's kidding too.
We'll send pictures.
Okay Wolvie, let's take up the challenge right here and now.
Armed with a bottle of Carmenere, a cooler full of beer and a digital camera, Wolvie and Day Glo will document the horrors of the season unique to Central New York for all of NWO.
I'll drive since I'll be the sober one.
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I love my 6-foot-tall silver aluminum Christmas tree.
I have the color wheel too.
Oh, the joys of the holidays...
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I love my 6-foot-tall silver aluminum Christmas tree.
I have the color wheel too.
Oh, the joys of the holidays...
Sw t!!
I would give my eye teeth for one of those with the color wheel.
My parents had one up until the late 70's.
You totally need to post a picture of it!
Hey, I'm going to start a post a picture of your tree thread
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We have this godawful gold lame fish that we always put on top of the tree, my wife found it somewhere over the years.
If anyone has ever heard the Didjits song "Under the Christmas Fish", that's my house.
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I love my 6-foot-tall silver aluminum Christmas tree.
I have the color wheel too.
Oh, the joys of the holidays...
Heh Heh, too funny!
Wow!..I have TWO of them color wheels (all metal spot lamps too!).
Got them for free at a friend's yard sale back in the late 80's
(Dunno where to set them up with kids in the house)
Sooo 60's...
Grooovy maan!
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you probably think she's kidding too.
We'll send pictures.
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Yoo hoo, cookie-puss, it's been a week now and I am waiting anxiously for some scenes of local color there.
Get boozin' and start shootin'!
We have a date next week - so watch out!
Now that I think of it, the neighborhood I grew up in used to be pretty rural.
Actually my whole family lived in a row.
Since most of them are dead, all that land was bought up by developers & huge McMansion communities have sprung up.
Except for my aunt's tiny old house...and the people who live there now seem to take the "more is better" approach to christmas lights.
Last time I looked they had a 20 foot lighted sign on the roof, every inch of the house was covered in lights and the drive way was also lined with every imaginable plastic lighted figure.
I'm sure all those McMansion types are turning blue over it.
It warms my heart....
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you probably think she's kidding too.
We'll send pictures.
Okay Wolvie, let's take up the challenge right here and now.
Armed with a bottle of Carmenere, a cooler full of beer and a digital camera, Wolvie and Day Glo will document the horrors of the season unique to Central New York for all of NWO.
I'll drive since I'll be the sober one.
Yoo hoo, cookie-puss, it's been a week now and I am waiting anxiously for some scenes of local color there.
Get boozin' and start shootin'!
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Sorry to disappoint - we had a storm that went from snow to sleet to ice back to about 7 inches of snow - thus no cruising the taxidermists house for their unique & festive display...I'm really hoping he did a nativity this year...
Nothing says "Merry Christmas" like a group of dead & stuffed animals!
And, the fucking cookie making/baking took 4 hours!!!!
Santa better reward me greatly for this effort.
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