Christmas Trees

I have always loved decorating for Christmas and using all of the old traditional ornaments. Several years ago the home I lived in at the time was flooded by Hurricane Opal. A small amount of water in comparison to others but it still messed a lot of things up, including most all of my old cherished Christmas Decorations. The ones made by my children when they were growing up, etc.

Since that time I have enjoyed creating different Christmas trees. I have given my Victorian ornaments and my Teddy Bear tree to my daughter along with almost all of my other decorations. I usually go to her house for Thanksgiving and spend the weekend helping her decorate her house. She goes all out as I used to do and has a beautifully decorated home for Christmas. A wonderful place to spend the holidays celebrating with family. I love helping her, I get to see all of the ornaments as I take them out one by one to put on the trees and then she has to take them all down. For me that's a pretty good arrangement.

For the past few years I have not decorated a tree for my house, although I am always on the lookout for "Christmas decoration bargains". As a result, I have collected a few for another theme tree. This year I put a small table top tree up using some of the things I have selected. This "collection" is a work in progress and I will as time goes by find other things to add to the tree.

The star on the top is crocheted, light flows through it and there are transparent beads around the outside. There are hearts, one of my favorite symbols, dangling snowflakes, teacups and other crocheted ornaments. The pale pink balls are delicate and compliment the beaded flowers. A Christmas Tree should be something that you love putting up and don't mind talking down, otherwise why bother. This one suits me at my stage in life.