I thought a little Christmas ornament history might be fun! Celebrating Adam and Eve with an Apple Tree? Who knew?!
Where did putting ornaments on a tree come from?
https://www.grunge.com/669128/the-real-reason-we-put-ornaments-on-the-christmas-tree/
What are some amusing things folks put on a Christmas tree?
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I have never done a silly tree, but it could be fun maybe for a second tree in say a family room or something. Growing up, we had two trees. One tree in the living room and our 'kid' tree in the play porch. It had all our homemade ornaments on it. We thought we were special with our own tree. Looking back ... LOL ... I think my mother didn't want the homemade ones on the regular tree!
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The Darth Vader one made me laugh. And oops ... the cat in the tree happened! The year we got Axl cat ... 2016, we opted to not have a tree at all thinking as a kitten, he would wind up climbing it!
Did you know how Woolworth's started selling Christmas ornaments? Cute story.
Woolworth's Museum
http://www.woolworthsmuseum.co.uk/xmasdecs.htm
I remember my mom having my great grandmother's vintage ornaments on our tree. I seem to remember that they were German made. They were so neat looking. Only she hung those ... We kids were not allowed to touch them.
Do you have a favorite ornament? My second favorite ornament is a pretty wooden violin ... I played the violin (badly) in grade school through the first half of 9th grade in Ohio. Then my mother moved us to Florida and the school did not have Orchestra. I bought the violin ornament many many years ago at a Christmas shop. BUT my FAVORITE ornaments have always been what my kids made and, yes, I put them right on our one and only living room Christmas tree for all to see!