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Friday, 2 December 2011

Advent Calendar 3 - A Tree of Happy Memories

Advent Calendar  is a daily blogging prompt through December from http://www.geneabloggers.com/ used by many genealogy bloggers to help them tell stories of their family and their ancestors. 

Reading some of the house-style magazines, some people focus on   colour themes  such as silver & blue, or red &  gold etc. for their Christmas Trees,  but for our family the Christmas Tree is one of happy memories.


In the past it featured my young daughter's home-made decorations - who can forget the bells made from egg cartons covered in baking foil?

Now it signifies our interests - we have collected items whenever we have been on holiday abroad - mainly Austria and Bavaria, but also Bruges, with stockings, hearts and bells abounding. 



                                  
 Reflecting our other pastimes are miniature musical instruments and cross stitch items.








              

Discovering the decorations again when we get the boxes down from the loft is pleasure in itself .  Our tree is quite small but looking at it every year, brings back memories of happy times.  


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2 comments:

  1. Greta Koehl3 December 2011 at 01:29

    Oooh, I love your ornaments. I also have a couple of onion-dome ornaments (to appear later) and I believe that same scroll of music. Merry-go-rounds are also a particular favorite. Would love to see your tree with all of the ornaments on it!

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  2. Colleen G. Brown Pasquale3 December 2011 at 11:16

    Thanks for sharing your photos! They are delightful. Our tree also had many home made ornaments, made of felt, foil or cardboard. Now I use many small picture frames with family members, past and present, to make it a family tree.
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