Thursday, December 24, 2009

Holiday Decorations




It's Christmas Eve. The holiday baking is done and the presents are wrapped. We never got a tree so we don't really have much in the way of decorations. We hung a few ornaments on the chandelier that we acquired between last Christmas and this Christmas:

  • The Barbie ornament was found at a garage sale.
  • The Mach 5 and View Master ornament set are from the 2008 Hallmark collection so they were on sale.
  • The two small retro ornaments were in a gift basket that Dan won at a school raffle.
  • The Chimpanzee was purchased at a store in Escondido that was next to the motel we stayed at.




The items in the other photos were found at a garage sale by Dan's sister. They are called Snow Stick. You are supposed to wet them with a sponge and stick them to your windows. I decided not to try these on our windows. There are two different sets. One religious and one assorted Christmas designs. The Holy Family had been used so were not there but there were shepherds, angels, and the Magi. The other set had bells, holly, a candy cane, and the scary jack-in-the-box. Maybe I will try them next year.

2 comments:

Postmaster said...

I like the chimp ornament!

We have only sometimes put up a small, tabletop fake tree. The cats would destroy anything else. The first few years we were married we started what we thought was going to be an annual tradition of buying one special ornament every year. But that kind of fizzled out.

Deane D said...

The store had a variety of different animal ornaments but I chose the chimp because we don't have any exotic animal ornaments.

Too bad the cats won't leave you ornaments alone. Could you hang some high in windows or from light fixtures?