Most Sentimental Decoration

[Mr. Griswold]

Today I was restoring my Nativity Scene and it will be the 1st year I have displayed it since I was 18 yrs and living back home. This decoration means so much to me (obviously because of the symbolism of Christ) but also because this was a piece my father and I put out every year together. I was 8 years old when I first put this in my parents display. That was 22years ago almost. It went missing when my parents moved and stayed missing for 10 years until my hunt ended and I found it 90 miles away in a relatives attic. It has not been displayed since I put it out last in 1998. It still has the original duct tape on the manger I used to hold it together with in 1991 when I cracked it. This Nativity has major Sentimental Value.

I was curious what decoration you may have outdoor or indoor that you have a bond with?

[Just Whisper]

A small tabletop nativity set my parents had before i was born. it was the only decoration i was allowed to set up. i loved the smallness and smoothness of each piece. It was a small wooden frame with mary, joseph, jesus, 3 wisemen, a shepherd and a sheep made from ceramic. I still have it, and still love the way it feels to touch. And it also has been glued back together a few times.

[Frosty]

Everything we have all the way down to the last bulb in a string of lights. We still have bulbs from the 80's i just take the base off and use for replacements with the new strings ....might not be safe but i do it. All of our ornaments my parents bought me and my bro one every year with the year and we have homemade ones also from the crafty family. Just everything when its christmas i cant throw anything away. Even the broken things i glue back...

[Sickie Ickie]

I have some old craft ornaments we made when I was younger, and my father had these cardboard village buildings we used to put under the tree. We used cotton for snow.

[Mr. Griswold]

JW that is an awesome decoration filled with memories.

Frosty I can relate to that as well and yes I have done the same type of bulb placements. They just dont make them like they use too.

SI and Frosty I had alot of the same ornaments I am assuming we are talking popcicle stick crosses and yarn wrapped foam balls. I also made the paper cut out bells, ceramic clay balls hand painted or sleds that I put my picture in them as a kid.

Its funny that time goes by so quick but these pieces almost can take you back to a simpler time in your life. It makes me almost start to tear up thinking of all the family I have lost since I was a kid yet I have decorations that all of them have touched at one point.

[Frosty]

Heres one i remembered.
My dad(deceased now) had no ornaments for the tree(his parents were real winners as you can see trust me the stories i can tell i think i said this one in another thread once already but...) and broke as dirt had 10 bucks to his name i think he was a kid at the time. So we heard a story every year about it snowing and his parents wouldnt buy any ornaments so he took off on foot in 4 foot of snow uphill to buy some glow in the dark glass balls for the tree. Well every year we kept hearing how he thought his mother threw them away and he would get so mad thinking about it. Well when she died we were going through the house and found them he looked like he was 5 years old being so excited(i guess its the small things that matter) The frosting is falling off and they dont glow much at all anymore but we still hang them like they are new.

[chris]

I would have to say mine are the to 8" angels me and my wife got from her grandma after she past away. I think she made them years ago and I like them a lot! Every year I get them out and put them up high so the kids can't get them.

[MerryBells]

I have 2; The old glass Santa that my Mom had when she was a child, and a big pink glass Christmas ball with my name on it in glitter that Mom had made when I was born.

[putrid]

I have three.
A white plastic horse toy. the only toy I have from my childhood.
A plastic Angel ornament.
The third is a group of wood ornaments I carved when we couldn't afford real ones for the tree.

[bethene]

I have a few.
One is a stocking, it is red and white, on the red is a santa putting toys under the tree, my dad used glitter and glue, and outlined the picture, and wrote my name in glue on the top white part, I still hang that every year.
My dad worked at Reynolds Metals, and made several things out of aluminum, first a large star that hung on the front of our house , with C-9 lights on it. I use C_6's - if we don't get snow too early, or hubby is well,( which means it won't get up this year), but when we do use it, it is on the chimney. I adore seeing that, just brings back lots of memories. And he made some aluminum trees. when I get my decorations out I will take pics of them. One of a kind, unique and very different.
Also, the ornaments that were on the tree when I was growing up, I love my moms old ornaments.
The tree topper I use used to be my MIL's and I love it. reminds me of her when I use it.

[Mr. Griswold]

Putrid I love the angel. I would be afraid to even hang something glass and fragile. I have a bit of the Steve Eurkle complex and break alot of stuff :)

[Rybcon]

First and foremost is our 1979 "First Chrstmas Together", but I'm also partial to an ornament that has Merry Christmas in Polish. I was born in Chicago, not Poland, but try to remember my Polish heritage.

[EnlightenedGrinch]

Probably an old ball ornament that is the last one remaining of a set that decorated our silver "Pom-Pom" tree when I was a young tot. That's the silver metallic tree with the rotating tree stand and the rotating lighted color wheel.
I can see this ornment set on the tree in some of my Dad's old 8mm home movies.
My sister has the tree now.

[Winter_Witch]

I have a few decorations my grandma has given me over the years. Until she passed away June of 08 they were just decorations grandma gave us. Now of course they have taken on a more significant meaning as we don't get to share these holidays with her any longer. Too bad we tend to do that but I sure do cherish what I have.