Monday 23 December 2013

CHRISTMAS: Rocking Around the Christmas Tree

Digging out Christmas decorations after been stored away for the year, I love pulling out and hanging those decorations that are a little extra special. While the majority of the baubles are shop brought en mass, we have a couple of special ones that bring back a lot of memories which I thought I'd share;

Christmas Decoration

I'll admit to not knowing anything about Sand Dollars until moving to the US. Sand Dollars themselves are a form of sea urchins specially adapted to crawling and burrowing in the sand and hold special meaning regarding the life of Jesus. Their center marks a star of Bethlehem, the shape of the Poinsettia flower for his nativity, the five holes marking the five wounds suffered on the cross and if broke, five pieces come apart to represent doves.  The legend lives on across the year, but sand dollars often get decorated over the festive season. 

Christmas Decoration

Back in the days of being in a long distance relationship I sent this decoration to Joe for a Christmas present, I think it was originally from Marks and Spencer and I just love the penguins on it (my favorite). It is a little odd still just having my photograph hanging upon the tree but its a reminder of how far we've come. 

Christmas Decoration

Only fitting that we picked up a memorable Christmas decoration from Chicago on our visit there, I love that it has all the iconic buildings featured. Chicago itself certainly knows how to look pretty at Christmas time!

Christmas Decoration

Joe's gran every year sends him since childhood a special decoration, and in 2011 she sent matching little cherubs for each of us each with either pink or blue ribbons, they always hang pretty close to each other too.

Christmas Decoration

In the last couple of months I've been coming across a lot of beaded DIY Christmas ornaments, and I thought I would take a hand at one of the semi started kits. I've always been a fan of beaded and glass ornaments for how much they catch the light and after fiddling around for a night on the sofa, I managed to make four of them. I was pretty pleased with myself to say the least.

So this is my last post before Christmas - I hope you've enjoyed them- you can always look back if you missed any!


Now time to wish you all a very Merry Christmas - I'll see you all on the other side!

2 comments:

  1. Aww these ornaments are all so lovely! I especially love the sand dollar one.

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  2. I love ornaments with little stories behind them.... way back a million years ago when my family did a Christmas tree, we had an enormous box of gifted and homemade ornaments, and many of those had stories too. Anyway, Merry Christmas and enjoy! :)

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