I’m not huge on doing lavish Christmas decorating in my own home. Just give me a tree and a minimalist nativity. I do, however, love making ornaments and filling a tree with small treasures. I think this angel is my favorites of all time. I didn’t make her, I’ll have to have mom remind me where she comes from. She has bendy limbs, so every year growing up I would shape her into a new pose that she would graciously hold the entire holiday season. Now I love it because it’s old and makes me chuckle about my how much of a girls’ girl I was- loving everything ballet, pink, kittens and. . .

. . .unicorns. And, bless my mother, she started ornament collections for my brother and I long ago. When I got married she gave me a box filled with the ornaments that had been given me over the years, and on my first Christmas with my husband we had a good start to our own collection. Do you have any favorite ornaments?

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