Tonight is the last night our Christmas tree will be up. It’s huge and sits right next to my desk. It will come down tomorrow to make room for the invasion of my new computer. We have gazillions of ornaments on the tree, and I decided to try my hand at snapping shots of a few that were in range of my tripod. I still need some practice with these settings; these shots are what came out best. :)
Above are two out of the dozen or so felt ornaments we have that my mom made. We always had similar ones on our tree growing up, so besides just being really cute, they feel very much like “home”. :)
Next, a third felt ornament is having a polka-dot-elephant party with one of the huge plush ornaments from our Rankin/Bass Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer set. Mark is a big fan of those holiday specials. The snowman is also from that set. The metal and stained glass angel is one of the many many angel ornaments I have from a past obsession with them. I have enough that I once did a 6-foot tree entirely in angels. (We don’t have enough stuff-free space to set up two trees anymore.) The purple glass guy hanging below the elephant is Grimace of McDonald’s fame, a gift from Ronald McDonald, who Mark works with from time to time. :)
The fake stained glass drummer below is part of a DIY set that I did to help pass the time in my hotel room while working on the road for Ericsson. I think it was in 1991. If my memory is correct, I did these while working on a project in Wharton, TX. The town made national news when it was hit with severe flooding a few days after I left. The acrylic reindeer is one we picked up at the mall years ago. It just looks really cool when the light hits it right. :)
The Big Mac is another from Ronald McDonald. Kaylee received the candy cane star at a Girl Scout gift exchange last year. The Packer ornament was a gift from my dad who was a HUGE Packer fan. It was a little good-natured dig at Mark, who has become a die-hard Cowboy fan since moving down here in '91. I always hang it low on the side of the tree nearest my desk so that I can see it while I’m working. :)
Finally, we have our two “baby’s first Christmas” ornaments. We actually received two different ones as gifts for Matthew (both Noah’s ark themed – must have been big that year), but had to hunt down one ourselves for Kaylee and had a heck of a time finding one.
That’s it! Fourteen out of the approximately 7,352,687 ornaments that hang on our tree every year! :)
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