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Decking the Halls

Posted on | December 10, 2009 | No Comments

For anyone participating in the ornament exchange – thought I’d post what I just wrote for a new participant.

There really are no “rules”, though I can tell you how it started. The original idea was to make a personalized ornament for each family in the family. Most often now-a-days, the ornaments aren’t especially personalized – but they are still homemade. They aren’t always ornaments (a couple of years ago S made Christmas card display/holders, M & her boys made candles one year) – I think the main reason we settled on ornaments in the first place was just that they would be small and easily displayed.

I’ve kept to the personalized (or tried to) because I love celebrating what happened that year. And it is fun to look back at them as a sort of diary.

We didn’t start out smart enough to label them, so there are several in my collection that I have no idea who made them or when 🙁 Now I suggest that you include your names and the year so we will always know.

I don’t have a total number participating this year, but we usually end up with about a dozen. I usually make 15-20, just to be sure I’m covered. As soon as I know for sure, I will post it.

Am I missing anything? Did I get anything wrong? Fill in the blanks

 



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