slo’s THURSDAY 12/8 poll - Homemade Ornaments

[nw6675]

I'm proud of all she made....but they don't all make it to the tree lol

 

[tvguy]

Most of our ornaments are either homemade or have some meaning to them. No generic store bought ornaments on our tree any more. Even have an ornament my mom made in the 1920's on our tree. All the ones I made as a kid. All the ones our kids made in school, and now a couple with our Granddaughters pictures on them, and I suspect a few they have made when they get old enough to do that.
Sadly, my wife has none that she made as a kid. Her mom generally threw them out as soon as she made them. But she does enjoy the ones our kids made.

 

[Meriweather]

I have a few I made years ago.
The kids have the ones they made

 

[Dan Murphy]

I'm going to say maybe 8-10, made by the kids when young. No tree up yet this year. Not sure if it will get up.

 

[disneyseniors]

The homemade ornaments are the most precious to me. I have some from my grown up grandkids which I wouldn't trade for anything
It takes me forever to decorate our tree because I stop and look and remember with each one. But I wouldn't have it any other way!

 

[fla4fun]

We have them but don’t use them. When Mom and Dad passed away, it was too painful to use the traditional ornaments, so we boxed them up and stored them away. Probably half of those are homemade. The tree now is mostly Disney and Hallmark ornaments. There are a few rustic ones that could pass for homemade, but they aren’t.

 

[LuvOrlando]

My kids made a bunch and I adore them so my macaroni and paste ornaments aren't going anywhere

 

[bobbiwoz]

8-10 and it’s a small tree, and I take turns with all our ornaments. I found a few beautiful stars that a good friend made for us, and there are 6 of them!

 

[JLTraveling]

I haven't counted, but my guess is about 11-14. They're almost all older than I am (except for a very cool Jack the clown HHN one that my dad made for me a couple of years ago). When my parents got married they had very little money, so my mom handmade most of their ornaments. After a bunch of moves and Hurricane Katrina wiping out nearly everything we owned, I still have several of them. Mom passed three weeks before Christmas 18 years ago, and those ornaments are my most treasured possessions (along with the handful of her music boxes that survived).

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I have a few that my little cousin made. They're not very pretty but I love them to death. All the homemade things from my childhood are on my sister's tree from when we divided up our parents' ornaments after my Mom passed.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

We don't have any

 

[luvmarypoppins]

I have more than 20. My grandma enjoyed making beaded Christmas ornaments that she would give us. I am glad I have them to remember her by.

 

[design_mom]

I'd have to count, but we've got a lot. Some made by my mom, some made by me, some made by the kids, and one made by a friend of mine.

My mom has a few more on her tree that I wouldn't mind having someday. An organization does a craft fair of handmade holiday items to benefit our Children's Hospital (this is the 100th year for it). For a number of years (back in the 70s and 80s when I was a kid) part of the event was an auction of decorated Christmas trees. Volunteers would decorate the trees (at least 1/2 the ornaments had to be handmade in keeping with the theme of the event), people -- or companies-- would bid on the trees. Winner got the tree and the hospital got the money.

For several years, my mom helped her friend decorate a tree. Mom would spend MONTHS making ornaments for it. Sometimes they were hand sewn with embroidered/beaded embellishments, sometimes they were beads on wire, sometimes they were painted salt dough. They were "homemade" (my mom isn't a professional artist and they were made in my home), but they were as good as professional. She has an "extra" ornament or two from many of the trees they decorated on her personal tree now. (A few have been ruined over the years, but not many.)

 

[Babs Johnson]

I have a few, very precious ones, that DS made throughout his childhood. They get special, prominent places.

Yes, we have a few somewhat sorry-looking ornaments my kids made in school or the Girl Scouts but they still get proudly displayed on the tree.