I am absolutely smitten with all of this month's new releases and I can tell by the excitement that some of you have shared with me that you are too! A big thank you to each and every one of you who have joined us tonight during release festivities!
To celebrate the upcoming holiday season and our amazing September release line-up we are giving away a fabulous prize package tonight! Practically the entire September release,which has a $230 value!!! All you need to do to have your chance to win is post an answer to the following question in the comments section below.
Congratulations, Amy! Please be sure to contact customer service with your shipping information within 30 days to claim your prize. And a BIG thank you to everyone for playing along! Such wonderful stories and memories you all shared! Truly inspirational! Have a wonderful night everyone!
candles!!! we have pretty multi colored ones, dont light them, but they are sooo pretty!
My favorite piece of decor is the stockings. I love stuffing the stockings. I plan from the moment I put them up what I’m going to stuff in them and how much I can fit!
Oh, that’s easy! Every year I put an angel on our tree made from a piece of my mother’s wedding dress. She died 2 years ago, so it’s even more precious to me.
Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Helen
I have this scented caroler figurine that my girls always loved – it’s been over-loved through the years, but it still smells so good!
My tree and the stockings are my favorite!
My nativity sets! I love them, and that’s what Christmas is all about!
Our Advent Calendar. I made the calendar and my kids helped make the ornaments that go on it when they were small. So it’s very special.
I set out a Santa Claus statue made from plaster that my mom bought the first year I was born. (Many, many years ago!) It has been painted and repaired so many times I can’t count, but is very precious to me.
I am still discovering family traditions to cherish with my young family, but I do love our stockings!
Have a great night!
My favorite piece is my nativity set. It was made by my mom and I when I was a little girl and it has a special place in my heart.
Abby
I love dangling my pine garlands and dressing them up with cinnamon scented pinecones around a few stuffed snowmen I have. It reminds me of winter back home in Massachusetts no matter where the military sends us.
that would be the Christmas ornaments that my parents have bought me every year since i was born. (which is quite a few) thanks.
The angel for the top of my tree. My little brother got it for me years ago and it’s just beautiful. I love the thought he put into that sweet gift!
We have a lot of Christmas decorations, but my favorite is the musical angel that my son loved as a little boy. He turned 30 last week 🙂
An advent calendar… It’s in the shape of a X-mas tree, and you put the decorations on.
I love it, because it reminds us every day that X-mas is getting closer…
My kids are now 16 and 12, and they still like to do it!
It is a manger set which my single mother and I purchased at Woolworth’s in the 1940’s. It has been touched by every child in our family and it touches my heart as well.
Snowmen! We have a set of three plush holiday snowman that we set out on the table every year. They are adorable and wish I could keep them out year round 🙂
My favorite piece of holiday decor has to be my Christmas tree. I’m allergic to the real ones, but was fortunate enough to purchase a pretty good looking fake one. There is something magical and transformative that occurs when the room is filled with the tree. The lights, gold ribbon, the star, the ornaments… It harkens back so many beautiful memories of my family at Christmas time. I always look forward to the day after Thanksgiving, when the living room gets rearranged!
My menorah collection. It is the best on day eight!
Hmm, I just made it last year but it’s an advent calendar for my 2 boys. I think this is my favourite already!
I love hanging the stockings each year. It’s always been my favorite part of Christmas morning and I love the idea of my children having the same stocking for their whole life, just as I’ve had mine.
My fave piece of holiday decor I set out is this pretty white snowball and snowflake gardland, made out of yarn and pompoms, with glittered threads.. I love it!
I love Christmas lights! My husband and I light up the whole front of the house, we love the reflection on them in the snow. SO pretty, not too many houses around here.
I love to put out my wooden Star of Davids for Hanukkah. I also have a collection of dreidels that I put out.
Anything with snowflakes on it! My decor changes from year to year, but that is the constant.
My best friend gave me those beautiful carolers – one a year for many years. I put them on the mantle every Christmas. I lost her 2 years ago and now, they mean even more to me.
The tree itself is our family’s favorite decor. We love to go pick out the perfect tree together (we’d love to cut it down, but due to military living, that usually isn’t possible), then trim it together. We’ve built great memories each year.
Would have to be the garland & wreath. Ok so that’s two sorry! My BFF helped me create a wreath after we moved into our house 7 years ago. I then added garland on all the railings & bannisters. Ohhhh all the little twinkling christmas lights with all the house lights out is just so magical!
I have a little candle holder that belonged to my father’s mother. The candle has long since burned down to the bottom, but I put it out every year. My grandmother was a special lady. Everyone says I would have loved her. Unfortunately she died a month before I was born and we never got to meet. All that I have heard about her over the years have made her very special to me!
My favorite piece of Christmas decor is a little miniature Nativity scene set that my husband and I purchased the year we were married. The little pieces are so dainty and so beautifully painted, and I love that it reminds me of when we were first married, as well as the birth of our Saviour and Lord, Jesus. 😉
When I was a child my mom’s best friend had a kiln and one year they made these HUGE santas. My mom gave me hers right before she passed away three years ago…..it is the first thing that goes out and the last thing to be put away….(usually in March!!!!)
My ornament collection. My Grandmother gave me an ornament each year to add to the family Christmas tree. Each is labeled with the year and frequently they were from places that my Grandparents visited. I would hear a story about each one when I received it. I love to get them out each year and tell the stories to my kids. My Mom continues the tradition with my kids!
My children’s stockings! Even though they are both in their 20’s I love hanging the stockings since they have had them since their first Christmas. It brings back so many memories.
A nativity set that has been in my family since I was a little girl. Just love it and it holds so many wonderful Christmas memories.
I always display my Santa doll that was given to me by my grandma. It doesn’t seem like Christmas without it.
My Favorite holiday decor is my Christmas china. My mom bought most of it for me, so I think of her when I see it. And it is a holly pattern (Holiday from Lenox)which is one of my favorite Christmas images.
A small nativity scene that was set out every year at my house when I was a child. I am 58 yrs. old and it was displayed every year when my daughters were growing up and now for my grandsons. The true meaning of Christmas!
I’ve only been decorating for Christmas on my own for 5 years – but I always use the tree skirt my mother made! She’s also bought a new ornament for me each year since birth, and has continued the tradition for my girls – so that’s how the tree is always trimmed!
We have a beautiful nativity scene that we put out at Christmas time to remind us of why we celerate. It’s Jesus’ birth.
I have an awesome set of brass pumpkins that stack up very high, and I absolutely love them! Every year when I bring them out I know it is the beginning of the holiday season!
My favorite piece of holiday decoration is a skinny,artifical,table-top tree that is decorated with mini Faberge-like eggs that Smith & Hawken(now gone) offered for many years. Many were gifts from my daughter. I’ve always admired anything Faberge (the real deal) or items patterned after his fabulous work.
I love my little angels that were from my Grandma! When you light the candles, the angels go around and around! Good memories for me and now fun for my grandchildren to watch with wonder!
I have numerous vintage Christmas tree ornaments that I just love – they were passed down to me and they somehow mix right in with the ornaments that the kids made! They add an elegant yet personal touch to our tree.
The wreath I buy every year for my front door makes it official that it’s holiday time, my most favorite wonderful time of the year! You just can’t help but be happy. 🙂
I have a 3 foot “woodland” Santa that I love to put next to my fireplace. I get so excited when the box comes down from the attic – Santa’s are my favorite and this one is by far my most treasured – and oddly, it’s not for sentimental reasons; he just makes me happy!
I am already planning my holiday cards with sets I’ve seen in this release – I am SO excited!!!! {{{fingers crossed}}}
My Christmas bear cande holder. They’re just so cute & immediately create that cozy feeling in the house.
I have a ceramic reindeer that looks like one from my Grandmothers house
The handmade beaded Christmas ornaments my grandmother made many years ago.
My tree! I love the ornaments and my favorite are the lights. It gives me the impression of a cold and cozy winter.
I love hanging the stockings. They are so pretty and festive. I am very excited about the Stocking Prints dies.
My most precious holiday decoration I put out every year is a vintage ornament that belonged to my grandmother. I used to have two of them, now this is the only one.
My favorite piece of holiday decor is a styrofoam snowman with a knitted hat and scarf that my Mother and I made together a couple of years before she passed away. I love it and always put it in a special place so I can look at it all during the holidays.
My favorite piece of Holiday decor is definitely my Precious Moments Nativity set. I absolutely love it and I have two different sets. Nativity set is a must in my family and what better way to display it than w/Precious Moments.
The Nativity on the mantle is my favorite. The kids love to help put everything and everyone in the ‘right’ place. And we love to tell the story of why we don’t put Baby Jesus in the manger until Christmas Eve.
I made my son an advent calendar using the triangle treat box and papertrey goodies. He gets so excited everyyear on the countdown to Christmas. He starts asking me about it after Halloween. It has been so nice to create some memories for him that he will cherish forever. Thanks to PTI, it is something I can put out year after year, and it always looks to be in style!
we have a special santa plate and mug that we set out every year with cookies and hot chocolate ( that has aleast 3 inches of whipping cream) and every year i catch one of my kids eatting the whip cream! I love that they still believe in the magic of christmas!
My favorite piece of decor has to be the bleach bottle and yarn Santa head my son made me in 4th grade. It’s quirky looking, but oh so cute and reminds me of him. He’s 19, in college and living away from home now, but when I pull out “Santa” and hang it on the wall, it reminds me of him.
I have a small collection of Vailancort Figurines. They are molded from antique ice cream molds and then hand painted with great care. Really lovely and I just love re-aquainting with them every year!
My tree ornaments – I like to remember who gave me each one or the story behind why I bought it!
I made a felt advent calendar when my kids were little. It is a christmas tree and there are 24 pockets below the tree with ornaments in them. Each day, you put one more ornament on the tree until Christmas eve. My two sons would take turns (one had the even days, one had the odd) and they have continued this tradition ever after they went away to college. They would catch up when they got home for break. I’m hoping to duplicate the calendar for each of them as they go out on their own.
My favorite piece of decor is the Angel on the top of my tree. As it was one my mom purchased and used every year on our tree growing up. Not only is it beautiful but it has become a tradition for my kids to put it on top of the tree and each time I remember my mom and that a piece of her is still with me in spirit as it represents her as an angel to me now.
I put out my Manger Scene. My mother made it for me and it is Mother Of Pearl. I cherish this for it not only represents the true meaning of Christmas, but my Mother’s love for me as well.
I love the card holders I put out. Not only do they reflect our faith in the sentiment on them, but I love to display the cards we get from family and friends. I feel so loved whenever I look over at the wall at all the pictures and cards.
My favourite piece of decor is a very old set of baubles that I was given after my great grandmother die. She used to have them on her tree when I was growing up and now they will grace mine until I get old. They look a little old but they hold very special memories every Christmas for me.
The tree for all of the memories each and every time it is decorated.
Well I can’t say that I do it but my MIL. Every year I look forward to seeing her collection of Angels in different sizes,styles and any way you could imagine them. They are all so beautiful and each year she adds one to her collection. We know its the Holidays when we start seeing them around the house.
my christmas tree, because ever since i can’t remmeber my mom used to put our christmas tree… and the most beautiful and significative item for it was the angel on top of it…. it was like a ritual for us to have our christmas tree… it was magical even thought we didn’t have that big christmas tree with lots of light but it was put all together and with much love.
That’s a tough question. I love all my holiday decorations, but especially my Christmas decorations. We’ve been collecting Dickens Village for a few years now. I love putting that out because my DH helps me do it, laying out the buildings, landscaping, and everything just so. We put the Christmas music on and have a really good time doing it.
A set of wooden snowmen and holiday candles. They are easy to put out and make it seem like the holidays even if we don’t go all out and put everything out.
My favorite piece is my miniature Christmas tree. I’ve been collecting Hallmark mini ornaments since I was a teenager and I love to look at each of them when I put it up. Now my son decorates it with me and he loves it just as much as me. I can’t wait to get it out!
Our manger scene that my husband surprised me with, and sometimes adds to, is my favorite since it gently reminds me whose birthday we are celebrating.
Not exactly decor, but the Hanukkiah I bought in Israel several years ago. The lines are clean, it goes with every kind of candle or other decorations, my sons love looking at the candles, and it has both personal and spiritual meaning. Thanks for the chance to win!
I have made each family member their own Christmas stocking. They are hung by the chimney “with care” every Christmas season.
My favorite Christmas decoration would be my tree skirt that my mother made for me many years ago. My mother will be 90 this coming February so we have had many Christmases to share together.
I love our beautiful, large, silver bells that dangle from our front door – they make a beautiful sound whenever the door is opened… it makes me smile every time. 🙂
My favorite holiday decor that I set out every year are the clay snowmen my husband and I made the first year we dated. Back then he didn’t mind crafting with me. 9 years later, my husband is over trying to impress me by not minding to craft.
I’d have to say the homemade ornaments we put on our tree. For years I participated in ornament exchanges with friends, plus there are all the special ornaments my children have made. Almost every ornament on our tree holds a special memory of fun times and dear friends. I love that 🙂
My favorite is my Lizzie High Nativity set. It is so simple and rustic yet so beautiful. I put the angel on a doll stand so she is raised and looks like she is flying and I have an electric candle that sits behind Baby Jesus. I take it out first and put it away last.
A crocheted santa, with a bag of gifts and glasses. I didn’t make it but bought it at a craft fair. So much work went into it and it is my favorite deco.
I have a very special ornament of a red, feather cardinal in a birdnest. It was given to me more than 35 years ago by a dear friend who passed away not long after she gave it to me. I’ve told my children about the friendship and now have grandchildren to tell the same story to. It goes on my tree every year.
My piece of Holiday Decor that will be out every year is something we recently purchased. About 5 years ago, we were in Oberammergau, Germany and went shopping for some hand crafted wood items. We purchased a complete table top nativity set with all hand carved items. It is absolutely gorgeous! We then picked up a few extra italian baskets with bread and fish to add to it. there are baskets of all types of offerings for the Christ child, hand carved statues of the Maggi, Holy family, animals, angels hanging from the top rafters. I just love it!
My favorite decor piece(s) are the wee little blown glass mushrooms that my mother purchased in Germany when she was a young woman. They are the most delicate glass, with bits of moss at the base, and clip to the smallest of sprigs on our Christmas tree. Only a few remain now, and we treasure and enjoy them each season!
I have an animated Santa claus that I put out every year because it was a gift from my dear grandmother who passed away a couple of years ago and christmas with family was very important to her so to me that animated santa is much more special and it makes me feel like she is still with us celebrating christmas each year.
Kind of tough picking one item but I would have to say it is our Christmas tree. We always cut our own from the bush and when we set it up the aroma of Christmas fills the house!
My Santa, angel, and snowman collections that my husband and I have given each other since our first year of marriage. Also–mercury candle holders in silver and red. Fa la la la la!!
A small set of ornaments that include baby ornaments and things the kids have made. They go on the tree no matter how the other ornaments change, these always stay the same. 🙂
Thanks for the chance to win.
My fave piece of holiday decor are all the Christmas cards that are sent to us, whether they’re handmade or store bought. We put them together on the mantel and I love it because it reminds us Christmas is coming. Looking at the cards also reminds me of all the friends and family, near or far, and keeps them close to my heart. Plus, the handmade ones are just gorgeous!
I have an old fashioned looking Santa that has a list of “good boys and girls” that was hand made and lists my childrens name. My children are all grown up now, and getting it out every year reminds me of those fun Christmas times years ago. Cute question! Thanks for all the holiday stamps this month!
I have some of vintage ornaments from my grandmother, each year I put them out in a beautiful bowl and they shine and glitter with the surrounding lights.
My Disney ornaments are my favorites. I have tons of them, all preserved in the boxes. It drives my husband crazy to see me meticulously open every single box but it is a labor of love. I just love the holidays and I have been so impressed with all the projects this release.
It is cheap. And will most likely not make it until I turn 50. But every year I have to take out my German Pyramid.
In 2001, 2002 and 2004 I got to travel to Germany on mission trips and in 2002 we visited a small town full of Christmas shops. And there I bought my 20 dollar pyramid. And candles that were too big big.
But every year I pull it out and I remember the beautiful country, the amazing people I met, my travelmates who have scattered across the country and relive a little piece of Germany.
Oh I love Christmas tree and reindeer! And Stocking too to stuff presents! Love your release! Can’t wait to purchase! Way to go PTI!
Our stockings, without a doubt! My husbands mother made them for us and they are so precious to us! Checking out what is in my stocking Christmas morning has been my favorite part of Christmas since I was a child. The best presents come in small packages.
I love my Fontanini nativity set – bought it at the after-Christmas sale a few months before our son was born. We’ve added a few pieces through the years, too. I love unwrapping it every year.
My favorite piece to set out are all the ornaments on our tree. The kids and I put them on together each year and talk about the ornaments that used to belong to me and the new ones that belong to them…. as we put them up. It is my favorite thing to do! 🙂
My absolute favorite things to display every year???? My collection of Santa and Mrs Claus…..I have about 15-20 and when I unpack them and place them on the table to determine their destination – it looks like a little army…LOL (kinda scary even) tee hee hee
Every holiday season I get excited to set out my grandmother’s antique glass ornaments. I have such fond memories of spending Thanksgiving weekend on my grandparents farm. My sister and I always helped her decorate her tree with them. I never dreamed that one day her ornaments would be mine!
I would have to say it is our Christmas tree using ornaments we’ve had ever since we got married almost 20 years ago. Our anniversary is 3 days before Christmas and it’s our 20th this year and I am planning on making something special with stockings to have to display every year from now on. We have our new lab this year too so he’ll have to have one too…lol. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love seeing our Christmas tree with all of the ornaments…the ones that I have had for years, ones given to me by husband when we were dating, some from students, some my husbands’s sister made when he was little…and now the girls’ preschool/kindergarten masterpieces. I love that each time they come out of the box, I have a special memory for each one.
Gosh there are many to choose from though for me it would have to be my 1st Family Christmas Ornament that has my Son’s name along with my husband and myself dated the year we became a family. My son will be 3 years old in Nov. and we are expectating our 2nd child in Oct. Needless to say this year’s Christmas Ornament will also be extra special.
Definately our manger/nativity scene. The true reason for the season.
When I was young my grandma started giving my mother pieces for a Christmas village each year. Now as an adult, I love collecting and setting up my own village because it makes me think of both of them.
My favorite Holiday piece is my Nativity Set because it’s ceramic and the faces of the pieces are faces of children. I made this 13 piece set 30 years ago.
I have a glass ornament that I just love, especially when the colored Christmas lights reflects off of it. So peaceful!
candles or anything silver & red, our Christmas colors!! the smells of the candles put me in the Christmas spirit immediately!
The ornaments that my children made in Kindergarten. They bring back such wonderful memories of their shining eyes and sweet smiles as they gave them to me so many years ago.
Christmas is big here and we usually decorate a tree or more in every room but my favorite is the tree designed upside down – it was built this way and I love it! It’s a great suprise for friends and neighbors when they see it in our window!
My fave is the 12th days of Christmas plates because each of the twelve days has a Christian meaning- the song was written during a time of persecution as a code. It is fun to print out each days meaning and the song verse and have each guest read their number.
My favorite are my nativity sets, I have been collecting them over the years and every year I change them to another place in the house. I have big pieces and and small ones, from different places, my kids even have one set for each of their rooms! I love to remember why we are celebrating!
My favorite bit of holiday decor is a framed construction paper snowman, pieces attached with brads, that I made in nursery school. I have been a snowman aficionado since about the age of two (I’m told I had Frosty the Snowman memorized by then), and have quite a collection now, but that piece will always remain my favorite!
My mom made my husband and I stockings out of navy blue Dickies jackets well before we were married. They have our names on them on trucker-type patches, and she worked the zippers and pockets from the jackets into the design of the stocking.
My husband always wore a blue Dickies jacket with punk band patches on it, so it meant a lot that she pulled all that together, and that she knew he was so special!
ok, hands down it’s my tree. it stands just 18 inches tall but has a homemade snowflake that I made in college, small decorations that i have gathered over the years and lights that plug in. I just take it out of the box, plug it in and it’s ready to go!
My grandmother, who passed away when I was young, had a ceramic city complete with a bunch of buildings, sleigh riders, a train and a skating rink with skaters which she made. My grandfather passed the city on to me last year because it’s getting to be too much work for him to set up. He comes out every year to celebrate Christmas day and was so happy to see it all set up at my house. It means the world to me that I get that beautiful city and get to share it with him as well.
All of my Nativity sets that I collect.
It is definitely my nativity sets. I have several and I love having them up so much, that I usually keep them up through January!
I love my Santa ornaments but my Nativity scene would have to be my favorite and most important Christmas item. The figurines are painted porcelain with gold paint trim that catches the candlelight.
My favorite is my Precious Moments Nativity Set that my Grandmother gave me when I moved into my first house in 1977.
I love getting the Christmas decorations out each year. By far, my favorite is the box of vintage European glass ornaments from my grandparents. They are displayed on a bottle brush tree and it is so much fun to put them out each year!!!
We have two different advent calendars, and those are by far my favorites. One is a fabric tree with velcro that we stick a different fabric ornament onto each day, and another is one that I made that I look forward to sharing the tradition with my future kids one day 🙂
Great question! My super, favorite holiday decoration is my Santa on a motorcycle…I love it because my husband loves it…he says that it is the only decor he can vibe with, the rest are my favorites! LOL!!
My Mom always put out this funky ghost and she just gave it to me a few years ago. It is my treasured holiday ghost LOL!
It’s a good life!
Terri E.
My brother made me a manger a few years ago – totally unexpected – and this is the 1st thing I put out (on Thanksgiving night). The new products are amazing. Thanks for the chance to win.
My Nativity set. It was always set up by my mom when I was little and I have such wonderful memories of putting it out with her. Now I set it up with my 2 daughters, who also love putting all the figures out in the manger. It just makes me happy all over to see it displayed after all these 30 something years.
When I was little, my mom designed and made myself and my brothers matching Christmas stockings. Over the years as we have grown up and moved on and had spouses and children of our own, she has made each addition to the family one of the socks. I love hanging our stockings in my house each year and thinking about what a special gift they are, a part of my mom to have forever.
My favorite is my Christmas tree and all of its ornaments. Each one of those ornaments has a very special meaning.
My stockings….hand knit by my mother for me as a child and for my husband after we married…Thanks, Mom!!!
My collection of snowmen. They make the house happy.
My nativity set. It is over 20 years old and my daughters would sit and play with the pieces. Now my grandson does the same thing. It is pretty special seeing Christmas though his eyes!
Our stockings! I love how big they are and we have one for each pet too. Our dog has one that is a big dog print shaped one which is so cute!
So many favorites but probably one of my favorites would be an angel I made in 2nd grade. I cannot believe its still hanging on-its over 25 years old. I was so proud of myself-it reminds me that I was and am creative.
It would have to be the stockings, nothing says Christmas like stockings!!!!!
Our Christmas stockings. They’re the first holiday item my husband and I purchased when we first got married. It’s not Christmas time until the stockings are hung on the fireplace.
I really love big chunky candles..all in all anything with fall colours!
The Christmas tree, I suppose it may be a bit big to be considered “a piece of decor”. The whole process of setting it up, decorating it, listening to carols throughout, lighting the lights, then finally placing the presents underneath it- it just doesn’t get more fun!
Gee-which holiday? The creche is the most important piece that is put out every year for Christmas. It’s a Hummel set that I’ve had for almost 40 years. Some pieces have broken and been repaired and my dad made the wooden stable years ago. I love the santas and the snowmen, too but the creche with baby Jesus is the most important of all. I love the new wreath set Nichole…it’s the prettiest one I’ve ever seen and the samples were marvelous!
Joyce
The ornaments on my tree from when I was a child. My mom saved all the special ornaments that I made in elementary school and gave them to me when I moved away and had my first Christmas tree on my own. I love putting them on the tree each year!
Since I’ve had my kids, I made a countdown calendar with little drawers & I love filling that up with treats, etc. for them to open up each day. They absoultely love it too! My 2nd fav thing is the golden crown for thorns we place on the tree each year to remind us of our reason for celebrating. Everytime I take that out of the ornament box each year it reminds me to be grateful for all the blessings we’ve had throughout the year. Gosh, it would be a total dream to win tonight!
The two stockings I made for my husband and I when we first got married (22 years ago). I cross-stitched our names on the stockings and they’ve traveled with us all over the world (military family) since.
My favorite holiday decor is our christmas tree. It’s a tradition in my family to have homemade cookies, eggnog and milk out when we decorate it. All of my kids look forward to it every year.
Stockings for each of my kids with their name stitched on it … they always peek everyday to see if Santa came over and left them a gift.
I adore the stockings my husband and I purchased a few years ago after we got married! They are enormous – a couple of feet long and really hard to fill! They are one of our first decorations as a family and I treasure them!
Every year we are sure to put out the Nativity set that my MIL gve to us the first year we were married. My husband has a tradition in his family that Mary and Joseph and other figures “travel” and get to the creche on Christmas Eve and Jesus is set out Christmas morning.
Halloween Dept 54 Buildings!!! They are so wonderful!
Our ornaments for the tree all have significance to our family. They represent many special times, hobbies, and family traditions. I love all the festive decorations, but the tree with it’s ornaments is my favorite.
i decorate with snowmen every year and add new pieces to my collection yearly. of my snowmen, i can’t wait to put out my wooden snowman box which holds all of the christmas cards we receive from family and friends. in this day and age of emails and e-cards, i still love getting actual christmas cards and photos.
a miniature snowman on a miniature frozen lake with houses decorated around it… I just love it, the snowman iceskates on it… and it plays music too, i just think it represents the Xmas spirit so well…
A Santa figure holding a chalkboard. I write something Christmas-y on it and it sits on my kitchen island.
The Little People Nativity Set that I paid way too much for on ebay. The kids play with it daily even though they are getting a little older. It’s nice to have a nativity that they can interact with.
I have a very special Christmas ornament that goes on my tree every year. My dad was a master glassblower and he used to make Christmas ornaments. He was very critical of his own work. He had a stroke and can not blow glass any more. My mom gave me a red glass ball ornament that my father made and it is so precious to me.
So many things but it’s not Christmas until we have the nativity set up.
We have one favorite menorah that I found online shortly after my husband and I were married. It has nine little black iron chairs for candle holders and each chair has a different colored piece of stained glass behind it for the seat “back”. I absolutely love it!!
My favorite are the Christmas stuffed animals that I my mom has given me over the years. I line the stairs with them and it looks adorable.
My must have holiday decor is the Christmas tree with white lights. I can forgo everything else but the tree 🙂
I have these vintage photo frames that have a christmas theme–there are the same colors as those metal glasses from the 60/70s. lots of fun color and they just bring back great memories of my grandparents!!!!
My favorite piece of holiday decor would have to be our Christmas tree, hand down!!! It is truly a family affair! My husband gets the tree out, puts it together, and strings the lights while my daughter and I unpack the ornaments. We each have ornaments that hold special meaning to us and seeing them year after year really warms our hearts. Christmas carols are playing in the background all the while and finally we add our beautiful angel on top! I am looking forward to putting the tree up this year already!!!
My favorite is an ornament we had personalized in Disney World on our honeymoon in 2005. It reminds us of a happy, magical time in our lives-good feelings for the holidays!
I love putting out all of my holiday Williraye Studios figures, especially my nativiites. They have such a cute and unique homey,country feel to them and Christmas to me is all about coming home.
Certainly our tree. It was a special gift from my parents in law who for me capture and remind me of the magic of Christmas. I love how our tree brings the Christmas spirit into our home. I have had friends over during Christmas and then again afterwards and they actually gasped at the difference when it was gone.
An angel luminary my mother gave me the first Christmas after I got married…she passed away in 2003, but every time I see it I think of her as my *angel* 🙂
I love the angel for the top of our Christmas tree! She is the perfect finishing touch to our country decorated tree! I also love the homemade ornaments…made by each of our children.
My favorite item to put out each year is definitely our stockings- all hanging neatly on the mantle…. ooh… I can’t wait!
My favorite decor is a door wreath. It is a nice way of welcoming all visitors and a beautiful sign of the season.
My tree skirt! I made it for my son on his first Christmas, featuring some of his favorite characters/toys, and now, 10 years later, it’s so fun to take it out and look at all the things he loved as a baby! 🙂
It would have to be my tree with all my ornaments. The ornaments are a collection of ones that were handmade by my grandmother for me from the time I was born to present or ones my mom gave to me from Germany and of course all the ones my kids have made for me every year! I love to sit in front of it, all lit up. It’s so peaceful and brings back so many memories!
My favorite piece has to be my large wire snowman. I just love snowmen and this large figure just gets me in the mood for a little snow and a great Christmas with my family.
I love my Willow Tree nativity scene. For years I tried to find a nativity set that did not look cheesy and finally I did. My sweet husband let me order the whole set several years ago so it wouldn’t take me years to accumulate it piece by piece. I have a special place for it and I put a light in it too to emphasize it. It reminds our family of the true meaning of Christmas.
All my Christmas ornaments..each one is very special and tells a story. Seeing them all on the sparkly tree makes my heart so so happy!
My wife’s birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks. She would be over the moon if I won this for her. I guess my favorite thing to put out for the holidays is our tree. Just the tradition of doing it is so enjoyable to me.
My favorite decorations are the lights. Outside & inside. I love to get up early in the morning and drink my coffee while the Christmas tree lights sparkle. It’s so peaceful and quiet. I love to drive around and look at the houses decorated too.
After I was married, my mom knew a ceramic artist, and she gave us a ceramic pumpkin with our family name cut out in it, and there is a light inside. She also did a snowman one for us-our name is in the belly. I look forward to September every year since I know that we’ll have those pieces out thru January. Actually, the pumpkin is out right now. 🙂
All of our ornaments. I love remembering the people that have given them to us, and where we were in our lives when we received the ornaments.
My favorite is a wreath which I decorate each year with a different color theme. Love the smell of the pine needles as you walk into the door.
It would have to be my nativity set. My Mom made it in ceramics many years ago and every year it is a reminder of her and our family. My tree has been downsized since my children have grown and I don’t always put up the entire Christmas village, but the nativity is a constant … it is what the season is all about.
It’s my Santa Bear collection. Even when my dog gets the look in his eyes “what a fun toy to play with”. Thanks for the chance.
I put some nice white lights throughout my buffet display. It doesn’t sound like much but it add such a warm glow throughout the house, I love it!
My grandmother’s menorah and my daughter’s menorah – one is very old and traditional and the other is modern. I love finding beautiful candles for them too.
Our Ornaments! We pick out or make a new family ornament every year. Thay are all so unique and colorful it makes the tree look so warm and cozy.
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The stockings are my favorite decoration…and as my family grows so does the stocking that are hung!
I love putting out my christmas stockings. They are velvety with beads and embroidery and I love looking at them, and they totally feel like the holidays to me… and now that I finally have a mantle on which to hang them, I love them even more!
my favorite holiday decor I set out is my nativity scene during the christmas holidays!
kisha
My favorites are our stockings hung from the mantle. It reminds me of “The Night Before Christmas”, and we bought the book for La Princessa, and now DH reads it to her every Christmas Eve, our new family tradition.
The decorations that the kids make at school, no matter how “bad” they look, the pride that shines in their eyes, is pure magic, and I keep them all and put them out every year to add to the new ones..
I love the lights both on the tree and outside. My favorite time of the night is when everything is done and everyone is asleep and I can just sit and really take it all in. I love the peace of it all. My daughter loves when we are the street over and she can see the lights on our house. It just makes everything that more magical to me, to see experience the holidays through her.
My nativity set, because it is the ‘reason for the season’!
My favorite decorations are my snowmen… I decorate my whole sofa table with them & it looks so festive! Love my little snowmen collection!
My favorite isn’t a piece, rather a collection. Every year I love going throgh the boxes brought down from the attic. Even though I’m the one that pack it year after year, I’m always excited to open all the little packages inside and look through my treasures. My favorite is the special box that holds all the ornaments that have either been given to me as gifts, made by my children throughout the years or ones we’ve made together. Always the highlight of my holiday. As the years go by, and the get a little more worn and aged, I love them all the more.
I love the sight of my silver “stick figure” reindeers from Pottery Barn! They have that “clean & simple” style that I love!
My most prized Christmas decoration is a wooden nativity set that my mother cut and painted by hand for my daughter, who is four. She arranges it however she wants, which sometimes results in all the figures pointing random directions, but she loves it and so do I!
My favorite piece of Holiday decor would be a hard one! I think it is almost everything! I just love the christmas season! The twinkling lights, the christmas tree… wreaths on the doors.. and all the deorations around the house!
We have a singing Frosty the Snowman that my kids have loved for many years now. I’m thinking the grandkids will be old enough to enjoy it this year too.
That is a hard question. I have MANY favorite decorations. I have a 10″ artificial tree that I put over 2000 lights and 100’s of ornaments on. I LOVE it. I have a lot of Possible Dreams Santas and a Dept 56 Village set as well. I LOVE Christmas! Iputup 5-6 smaller trees all over my house, a Gold one in the dining room and …. I guess I will say a 3″ Possible Dreams Fabric Mache Santa. But,…..
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My favorite piece is my mother’s Nativity set that I “inherited.” My Mema gave it to her and we set it out together every year. It makes me happy to think of those years of decorating our house for Christmas. It was her favorite time of year!
The item I look forward to putting up during the holidays is my Nativity scene. This alone is what Christmas is all about to our family!!!
I have a set of Christmas china that I put in my hutch every year. It was given to me by my parents. I love it and the memories!
I have a collection of glass reindeer and Christmas trees that I set out every year. I try to add to it when I see something special. I add some white lights to the batting that I sit everything on to make it sparkle!
I have two favorites. My Santa’s, I have so many and I love to look at them everyday. They truly make me smile! I love each and everyone. Second would be my Christmas Tree’s one for each room in my home. The lights and decorations woo hoo. I love my home during the holidays.
That would be my DS’s first ornament that he made in pre-school. It’s a picture of him in a popsicle-stick frame. Actually I have every ornament and Xmas decor that he’s made since then… he’s 9 now so there are not too many creations nowadays, but I love taking these small momentos out each year.
My favorite things to put out for Christmas are my Precious Moments ornaments and Christmas Village. I have collected them for over 20 years and have so much family history stored in each and every piece.
The kids and I always decorate seasonally and always something that they have made…whether it be large construction paper leaves for fall or pine cones sprinkled with glitter for winter, there is always something out in the house to announce the seasons…and as the kids get older, we add to the collection. It’s great to look back and see what they have made over the years.
I’d have to say either my crate of sparkly jewel tine egg ornaments OR my red feather tree. I’m smiling just thinking about that mini tree covered with red feathers.
Our family doesn’t have alot of traditions yet and we are still aquiring decorations. But my favorite thing is when we decorate the tree with all of the ornaments that our kids have made. We have our regular ornaments, hallmark ornaments and we have homemade ornaments! They bring such wonderfull memories of our kids as they continue to grow every year.
I’m excited this year to renew a tradition from growing up. I just found the star for the treetop I made when I was about 9 years old up at the cabin. Can’t wait to put it back on the tree!
-Kristin B.
mine is the Nativity. I would love to leave it out all year to remind us of the most awesome gift we could ever receive. Love came down from heaven. Hallelujah praise the Lord!
I would have to say my Christmas Tree. My children are grown & gone but it still warms my heart every year to decorate my tree with all my children’s homemade ornaments of years gone by!
I have an antique German Christmas advent, that, when the candles are lit, has a turning “windmill.” It is very precious and sentimental to me and so I keep it packed away from my little ones. I have plans to bring it out when my youngest is or 3 (she’s 1 right now)! I still look at the picture every Christmas and remember Christmases past!
My husband and four sons (daughter is too little) set up my tree and use faux fruit and some little plaques that I made with the Fruits of the Spirit listed on them and decorate our tall and skinny artificial christmas tree. I’m not sure if it’s the decoration or just watching the most special men in my life have such a giggle doing it?!!!
When we moved – since we knew it would be temporary, and much smaller – we stored much of our non-essentials (including holiday decorations). But I made sure I brought the stockings (even mine & my husbands, even though they never get filled) because that was always my favorite part of Christmas morning. My girls, however, love decorating the tree. So we bought a tiny tinsel tree with tiny ornaments. They love getting it out and decorating it.
My favourite piece of holiday decor is the beautiful, sparkly gold bird that goes on top of our tree! It has a feathery tail that moves gracefully with the air currents. The movement entertains both our cat and our toddler!
I have a bell from an Advent calendar I made with my Grandmother when I was little and then all of my ornaments that have meant so much growing up that have been passed down to me. Those touches that bring back the family memories are what I always put out every year. I hope to create more of those memories to pass on to my family as well. I love decorating for the holidays so much that I never want to put them away! Thanks for another great release and an awesome prize package tonight.
A hooked rug wall hanging of Santa. It was a project my mother got me interested in about 40 years ago. We worked on it every night after dinner until it was finished. My daddy even joined in a night or two. I thought it was soooooo cool. I still hang it up every year and remember the fun time I had making it with my parents. I miss them.
My sister taught at a Christian school in Haiti for 3 years and one year she brought me back a small Haitian nativity scene. All the little figures were individually wrapped in banana leaves and packed inside a coconut “inn”. I love getting it out every year because it’s so unique.
I have a latch hook piece I did many many moons ago when I was a little girl. It brings back such fond memories of family celebrations and how I loved working on it!! 🙂
Ok, this made me giggle. It is actually at work. I’ve been there 20 years and it has come out every year I’ve been there. It is a pathetic spiral metal icicle with a single jingle bell on the end. It is droopy and hangs a bit off kilter but it marks the beginning of the season and we all love it! It is the lab dingle ball!
I have a few favorite ornaments that are sentimental, and I really look forward to putting up the ornaments every year, because you never know when you will unwrap an extra special one!
I have a collection of crystal snowflakes that my mother started for my daughter when she was born. Every year she would get another one. When she passed away two years ago, we continued the tradition and I love putting them on the tree with my daughter every year because it reminds me of her and makes me feel that she is looking at us and wishing us well. I love the way the tree lights make the crystal sparkle.
I could probably list 20 different things, but I always love setting out my handmade card tin (well, I didn’t make the tin, but I embellished it). I always keep it filled with last years cards and we always have so much fun re-reading them and looking at the photos. I also can’t wait to fill it with the new ones as they come in. I just adore Holiday cards! Mail time is always a happy part of my day the month of Dec.
My fave holiday decoration is definitely our tree. Ever since I was a child, I’ve always loved setting up the tree and decorating it with my beautiful mum. Nowdays, I love sharing this time with my precious boys (aged 2 and 3). There’s something so special about preparing our home to celebrate the birth of our saviour and setting up the tree marks the beginning of that. I love it!
Every year my mom paints 2 or 3 new ornaments for my tree. I love them! She’s very talented and I look forward to giving them to my daughter one day.
My favorite is two ornaments of pictures of my boys when they were little. They made them with a favorite babysitter and I always put them out and smile when I see them.
The handmade ornaments on the tree! And the Christmas themed picture frame of me & my honey!
I adore our Christmas Tree and the Nativity set we have. It just makes me happy to see them in our living room!
My favorite decor item is my fake Christmas tree. When my husband and I moved in together we bought it for our first Christmas. We didn’t have a car so we had to carry the big box on the city bus and walk about 5 blocks to get it back to our place. It was the start of us making our own traditions and collecting our first ornaments. I love getting that tree out each year and setting it up with him.
I have a holiday table cloth that was made by my grandmother (she was a tailor). She made it for my parents for their dining room table (their first purchase as a married couple) and my mom passed it on to me when she also passed the table on to my husband and I.
I love the colors green and silver, so I always put out my silver ornament tree from Crate and Barrel. It has neat hangars for beautiful ornaments, and fits great with my beautiful green table runner!
You can change the ornaments each year too!
My favorite decoration is a snowman about 2.5 feet tall I bought at a craft show many years ago. He is holding a small christmas tree with lights. I just love how adorable he looks. with his rosy cheecks, carrot nose & cute smile. I leave him at the base of my fireplace. Eeryone thinks he is sooo cute!!!
I would have to say our christmas tree all decorated with the kids ornaments that they have made over the years.
I love to decorate our 2 story winding staircase with greens, lots of white twinkle lights and ribbons, bows, and nosegays of ornaments and baubles. It has big sparkley snowflakes also(since we rarely see the real ones here in NC)I created it a few years ago, and store it all wound up in a big box so we can put it up easily year after year. It’s visible from outside our front door, so everyone driving or walking by can see the whole staircase. It’s so pretty and fairy-tale-like!
My tree is my favorite. Last year I traveled alot – both in the US and overseas. I was lucky enough to buy an ornament from everywhere I went. At the end of the year, all the ornaments on my tree told the story of my year!
I have a very sentimental old red flocked mouse that I had as a kid, and I put him out every year on top of our clock. He’s lost all the flock on his nose, and he’s got to be 30+ years old now, but he’s so cheezy, he’s cute!
I have a large collection of snowmen that I enjoy sitting out for my grandchildren every year. Since we live in Florida they have never seen snow.
I hang up a wreath banner that my son made with his painted hands when he was five; he’s now 23 and his hands are not so small. I love this concrete memory of when he was little.
My favorite piece is the nativity scene that belonged to my husband’s grandmother that passed away several years ago. Every year we put it out and every year the kids spend time rearranging the figures. It is a very special part of our holiday.
Our stockings. They are nothing fancy, but we love to hang them and wait anxiously to see what has been left in them on Christmas morning!
I have a slate door plaque that has 4 snowpeople on it. Each one has the name of one of our family members on it.
Hands down, my favorite holiday decor is the matching Christmas stockings I made 18 years ago for our family of eight. Now our children are grown and don’t live at home anymore, and some of them have families of their own, but I still hang all eight stockings in order…
I love to put out a nativity set that was my grandmothers. It was made in Germany in the 1800s. The angel is missing a hand and the three kings look pretty worn, but the handcarved wooden stable is beautiful. My kids help me set this up every year and I relive my childhood Christmas memories each time.
The Christmas stockings! Somehow it just seems like the Christmas season when I see the stockings with each persons name hanging from the fireplace mantle.
My favorite is our stockings (which were made/stiched by my mom) they make Christmas official in my house!
My favorite piece is our tree. We have collected special ornaments – one for each family member each year. Each ornament represents what was going on with them that year and it is so much fun to pull out the ornaments and reminisce as we decorate the tree. 🙂
I’ve got a quilted wall hanging that a friend of mine made for me several years ago. The fabric is Christmas themed and I just love it!!!
Every year we hang up 3 stockings that were knitted by a family member. She gave my husband & I ours when we were 1st married 25 years ago and our sons after he was born. It wouldn’t be Christmas with out them.
In college, one of my high school best friends gave me a huge Christmas snow globe. It shows Santa’s workshop both inside and outside the globe and plays music! It’s gorgeous and after almost 20 years, I’ve yet to see another one like it. I always put that out – because it’s so pretty, unique, and special since it was a gift from a dear friend.
My very favorite and most cherished holiday decorations that I can’t wait to put out every year is my Nana’s Santa collection. She collected Santa Clauses every year, of all different varieties, and when she passed away, I inherited them. I love pulling them out of the boxes, and recalling where she got them and the stories behind each one of them. Fills me with warm memories of her during a season that she loved so much.
My favorite holiday decor is the Christmas tree. It reminds me that Christs birth means everlasting life for me. The evergreen tree is a beautiful reminder of the true reason for the season and my home doesn’t feel like Christmas without a tree – even if it’s a little one!
My antique deer collection. I love all the sizes and types with pine trees on the dining room table. Now I’ll have to make some lovely felt trees with my new die to add to the landscape!
My favorite thing to set out is my tree skirt. It was made for me by my Mom right after I graduated from college. That was 20 years ago and I still use it every Christmas. It is even more special now since my Mom passed away 3 years ago.
Actually it is the X’mas wreath that I hang on my front door. As our apartment was not really big enough for a beautiful tree, I tend to spend more on the wreath. So I really love hanging my X’mas wreath!
My girls love our advent calendar. Every year, each girl wants to be the one who puts the star in on the 24th, so I have to put numbers in a hat & have them draw numbers. Besides our tree…ok, and the stockings we decorate every year, that is our family’s favorite decoration.
My collection of snowmen! I put them all on the buffet in the dining room, and I they make me smile every time I walk past them. Many were gifts from special friends. One reason they are a favorite is because I feel like I can leave them out past the holidays, because they aren’t specifically a Christmas decoration.
Two large silver reindeer that make up part of my tablescape. They were a find years ago at Target and were similar to ones I saw at Pottery Barn for much more. Putting them on my dining room table is the first sign of the holidays at our house.
my tree. i love each and every ornament we put on the tree along with the glow of the lights.
I have a set of ceramic snowmen that I made about 10 years ago at a local ceramic shop. They are glazed in blue and white, and I absolutely love them! My Mom and I did ceramics way back when I was in high school, so they remind me of all the great times I spent with her being crafty!
My favorite decoration is a stained glass nativity scene. It reminds the family the real meaning of Christmas.
My husband has been collecting Dept 56 Christmas village pieces since we got married – they are so pretty when they are all over our living room! I also love that building the village is something he and our daughter do together every year. I’m sure she will cherish the memories of that special time with daddy.
The Nativity. The birth of Jesus is what Christmas is all about and we sometimes lose sight of that with all there is to do during the holiday season.
The Christmas stockings that I cross stitched. Because it took me so long to finish them!
Our Christmas tree! Because it stands for everything Christmas 🙂
I think all the decorations and ornaments that adorn our christmas tree. With each passing year new ones are added to document our childrens lives and my husband I are lucky enough to have ornaments from our childhood as well. It is the most beautiful decoration in our home by far.
My favorite piece of holiday decor just happens to be an ornament that my grown daughter made when she was 3. A cotton ball snowman with toothpick arms–so cute! We have ‘babied’ it all of these years (she is 35). It is displayed in a predomanent spot each year. It reminds me of the sweetness of childhood along with the memories of all of her Chrismases.
My nativity!
Ah, the advent wreath. When my daughter was young living at home, we would light it each Sunday, say a prayer and sing carols, one the first week, two the next, etc., until Christmas eve- then it was always Silent Night. Now that it is often just the two of us, we don’t sing always, but we light it and watch the soft glow and get ready and we do at least sing Silent Night.
My favorite decor item is actually some of my ornaments for my tree. When I travel I always look for local Christmas ornaments from my destination. This way I get to relive each trip and share the stories as I decorate my tree.
Ang
Its my nativity, hands down. The story of Christmas is what makes Christmas to me.
I think that it would have to be the Christmas tree. I love when my family deorates it. As we put the ornaments on we think of the friends that gave them to us or when we made them. What sweet memories.
My favorite Christmas decor is hanging the stockings that I made for each of my children.
That is a great question, of course we always do the same stocking and our ornaments are hung on the tree with care and love, but my favorite decor, is one that we have done for the last 5 years… they are hand-cut snowflakes. My kids and I will spend a whole afternoon cutting up these white snowflakes and then we hang them up everywhere… as my kids are getting older I don’t now how long this tradition will last, but I will always hold these moments in my heart.
Definitely the Christmas tree with all of the different ornaments. Most of the ornaments have sentimental value. I think of the individuals that either gave me the ornaments or made them. Some of them are quite precious.
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It is a Little Drummer Boy wall hanging that you pull the string and it plays the song. I got it almost 40 years ago and my memories of it are my girls when they were small and them pulling it until I thought I just could not hear that song again. Now I long for those days!
We have an advent wreath and calendar since my oldest was one, every year that’s how we begin Christmas season!!!
I have a collection of gingerbread men that belonged to my grandmother. I add to it each year. It is so homey and reminds me of my Nanny.
I am finally beginning to collect different holiday decorations, but I have to say I still love putting up the tree the most. I insist on having a fresh tree every year despite the mess it makes. I just love the smell! And then to bring out the different ornaments reminding me of years past, well it’s just the best!
I just love, love, love my snowmen sets from Partylite candles. I was a demonstrator years ago and collected every one of the candle holders and snuffers. I have a a beautiful radiator with a cover that sits next to our accented living room wall that is painted a deep cranberry. The whole set of them just look wonderful on it when I have all of the tealights burning in them. As an added bonus, when the tree comes down, I leave the snowmen out because, after all, snow in PA lasts until May! 😉
Undoubtedly our tree. Watching my children delight in unwrapping each ornament and playing with the tinsel and beads. Decorating the tree and having it with us through that season is one of the best times of the whole year.
I have two favorite ornaments that I put on our tree each year. The first is a pair of felt baby shoes that we bought the year our first son was born 38 years ago. They always bring back memories of my first pregnancy. I also have a felt angel that I made with my aunt when I was about 10 years old. These are very precious memories.
Stockings for sure!! They are the first thing we hang and the first thing we open on Christmas morning. It was a tradition my parents did with me and my sisters and I have carried the tradition on with my family and I still love it at 32 🙂
Most of my decorations have great memories attached to them, but I must admit, I just love picking out and putting up our Christmas tree every year — nothing beats the scent of a fresh tree!
Ok, I am not a decorative type person (I generally don’t decorate much for any holiday or season) but my favorite Christmas decoration is my nativity scene. It signifies that Jesus Christ is the reason we have Christmas at all.
I bought a Fontanini nativity when my children were young. They loved to play with it and tell the story of Jesus. Now, my grandchildren are doing the same. I think it’s important to have something the children can enjoy and learn the real reason that we celebrate Christmas.
Nearly 10 years ago when my husband and I had just moved into our own house I got hooked on making decorations by pinning beads & sequins to polystyrene balls. The few ornaments from that period that are still in one piece are brought out every year as a reminder of the first decorations I made for my very own tree.
White lights twinkling on the house and in the windows 🙂
I love my Willow Tree Nativity set. My husband bought it for me a few years ago and it’s the first thing I put out!
My favourite piece of holiday decor is an ornament in the shape of a teeny tiny bible. It even has tiny pages in it. My kids used to fight over placing this on the tree every year. Now that they are older they take turns!
My tree, every year as I put on the ornaments I remember the special occasion that they came from, when my children were small to grown up..and entwined with them are clear icles and snowflakes….love the feel and smell of Christmas..
I have a momento (memory) tree that is framed that was my moms. It is decorated with momento’s from my mom’s life (class ring, special earrings, etc.). It lights up and is so pretty. Actually, I keep it out all year, but only turn the little lights on it at Christmas time. My mom’s no longer with us, so I feel her ever so close during the holidays.
My Nativity set. It is a beautiful Lenox China Jewels set which my parents gave me piece by piece over many years. It is just beautiful. I look forward to setting it up on our fireplace mantle every year.
I don’t think I can just name one piece of holiday decor. There’s Swarovski ornaments I bought in New York, Reindeer that we received from a very special friend, a handmade Christmas collage. They all contribute to the Christmas spirit.
I love anything that makes it feel like fall, but my favorite is a set of three pumpkins I bought the first year my husband and I were married. They are kind of a rustic orange material.
I would have to say my nativity set. I love changing up my decor from year to year but my nativity set always has a prominent place.
The tree. Definitely the tree. There’s just something magical about seeing a Christmas tree covered in lights! And, of course, it’s always a special time going out and choosing a real Christmas tree with family, and then decorating it together.
The last ornament we put on the tree is the ornament Todd’s mom gave to us. She passed away in 1999, and this ornament was from 1993, the year we got married. It is a little chipmunk listening to a tape player – and the button you press holds a recording of Todd’s mom’s voice – wishing us a blessed Christmas. It is the thing that warms my heart every year.
A few years ago, my sister bought our family a Schleich Nativity. Schleich is a toy company. The nativity is beautiful – it is prettier than our porcelain nativity was. The kids love to set it up and have Joseph & Mary ‘travel’ to the creche, then the shepherds come closer etc. I love that it is unbreakable!
My hand carved nativity set! It’s the first thing to go out every year!
A hand-made felt Nativity wall hanging that was a gift from my elderly aunt when I was first married in 1972. She has long since gone on to live with the Lord, and the piece is getting worn and a bit tattered, but it has such sentimental value, I put it up yearly.
That would DEFINITELY have to be our tree. I love unpacking every ornament and the excitement my family shares reliving its origin. It doesn’t matter if it was handmade, one that was given as a gift, or picked up while on vacation, etc. They all bring happy memories and help to launch our festive season.
all of the different ornaments that we’ve collected over the years that remind us of something special about the year!
My favorite is our nativity set. I cleaned, fired, and painted each piece. My husband created the creche.
My favorite decor are the snowflakes that my Mom crocheted for me. I have about 25 of them in all different sizes and they are simply stunning on my Christmas tree!
My decorative glass jar with glass Christmas balls in it. My mother always had a huge cut glass punch bowl full of the colored glass ball ornaments set out on the table. My sister had the bowl for many years which she decorated with. Even though my mother and sister are gone now my niece has the punch bowl and decorates with it every Christmas.
It’s my garland for my front door. I made it and I’m pretty proud of it. It’s so inviting and it really looks good. It really puts me in the spirit!
Sandy C.
That would be my Doggie ornament collection.
I adore each and every piece.
My favorite holiday decor are all of my glass tree ornaments that I have collected for many years.Allot of them are from family and loved ones that have passed, making them so special.
My favorite holiday decor is our Christmas tree – each year we pick a day to put up the tree together as a family – I buy a new ornament for each one of us that signifies something special for that person for that year. Our family loves looking at the past ornaments while we decorate the tree – brings back great memories. I love that day!!
Christmas Tree Ornaments. My mother always gave us a ornament for our tree every year. When our daughter was born, she gave her Christmas ornaments, too. My mother is gone now, but her memory is with me through the Christmas season, when I decorate and look at our tree.
My grandmothers jewel Christmas Tree. She made it many years ago, it is made with costume jewelry that has been glued to velvet and put in a fancy frame with little white lights! I LOVE it! I am working on making one for my sister this year for Christmas =0)
My new favorite holiday decoration is a top hat. I found a top hat last year and I am so excited about it. I can almost hear the song from Frosty the Snowman. Yes I think my top hat is just magical! It makes me think of the old Rankin and Bass animations that I cherish now and as a child. 😉
I used it as a tree topper last year and it was so fantastic!
My favorite would be the nativity sets that I have collected. One belonged to my husband’s grandmother. Another I made when my children were little and another is one that my husband and I purchased while we were in Rome several years ago. They all hold a special place in my heart.
21 years ago my husband went to a favourite spot he would take our small children for picnics and scavenging. This time he picked out perfect branches from arbutus trees and small fir trees to assemble wooden reindeer for our front yard. One he even threaded a wire through to the nose end to make rudolph. We have put those out every December 1 for many people to enjoy. Several people have come to our door to ask about them. We unfortunately had one stolen years ago so our remaining deer is situated closer to our door. It gives me and my husband great joy to come around the corner and see the red light shining our way home.
I decorate our tree with the ornaments our kids (and grandchildren) made when they were little. It brings back such warm menories to see their Christmas art.
All the little ornaments my kids (now adults) made when they were little. Oh how the memories come flooding back when I unwrap them each year.
I have a nativity scene that I put out every year. It’s nothing fancy but it reminds me what the true meaning of Christmas is.
My favorite is simple, but the best part..the lights. They make all the others decorations sparkle.
I have 9 kids ages 13 on down to 2 year old twin tornadoes….I don’t set anything out because it would be destroyed in a heartbeat. LOL But we do have the Willow Tree nativity that is my absolute favorite. I actually try to keep it out year round so that I am always reminded of the blessing of the birth of the Savior.
My most-looked-forward-to Christmas decoration to display is my Precious Moments Nativity set. My husband purchased it for me on our very first Christmas 30 years ago. He has added to it every couple of years with purchasing me angels, animals, a stable, wisemen ….. it’s just so special to me–as is he!
The ornaments for the tree. Some of them go back to my childhood and I love getting them out each year and remembering the stories behind each one. But I think my favorite ornament has to be my Strawberry Shortcake on from when I was little.
Christmas stockings
SNOWMEN are my favorite decor that comes out every year. They are just too cute!!!
My Christmas tree. I just love to turn on Christmas music while I decorate my Christmas tree. I sing along and feel so happy. For sure my favorite moment!
i love my santa that counts down the days til christmas 🙂 i love to see my boys’ excitement grow as the number gets smaller!
I have this little angel that my great-grandmother made out of bow tie pasta! One of the wings is broken, but I love it all the same!!
It isn’t a piece of decor, they are the Christmas albums (33LP’s) that belonged to my grandparents. We play them every holiday, on the hi-fi stereo that also belonged to my grandparent’s. While the sound isn’t crystal clear like a CD, the memories they bring back are so precious to me. My grandparents are no longer living, but their love of music and dancing was certainly passed on to a very appreciative granddaughter.
Trish
The tree for sure. We cut it down ourselves every year, and use lots of ornaments (some even from when I was a kid) and of course lights 🙂
My favorite holiday decor is a ceramic nativity that my father-in-law gave me soon after we got married. He used to do ceramics and he knew how much I love nativities. 🙂
We have some beautiful little fake Christmas trees covered in “snow” that look so realistic. I love seeing them set up together on our dry sink amongst the Christmas candles.
When my daughter was two I made an elaborate advent calendar. My husband thought no one would appreciate the time I put into it. My daughter is now 30 and her brother is 27. We still hang the calendar every year and if either of them are here, they are anxious to add the ornaments to the tree. It’s everyone’s favorite and one of our oldest decorations.
My Santa collection – I set them all around the house, but mostly in my living room and dining room. I just love to see all of the different Santas!
My favorite piece of holiday decor is the Advent calendar. It signals the countdown to Christmas. It is something I have done all my life and it always brings to mind happy holiday memories.
Thanks for the chance to win!
Peggy Nickelson
My mother in law gave us an adult and children pair of Christmas caroling figurines. The detail in them is exquisite and I adore them. I always think of her when I put them out and how lucky we are to have such a nice family. I will treasure them always and someday I’m sure my daughter will inherit them and carry this on. Great release this month Papertrey!
My little reindeer!!! He has to go under our Xmas tree
My favorite holiday decor that I set out every year is a glass bowl full of handmade ornaments made my my husband’s great-grandmother. I have no idea how old they are, but I love them. I always take one and put it on the tree and the rest sit in a glass bowl that belonged to my hubby’s great grandma.
I guess my tree would have to be my favorite piece of Christmas. I usually go with a “gawdy” theme, totally not matching anything in my house. You know plastic stuff, funky lights, cheesy garland. Glad my Christmas cards are so opposite of this. Thanks to PTI for my Christmas ideas.
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This is an easy question for me. It is hanging the couple of dozen wood bear ornaments that my dad cut out and painted. My dad passed 10 years ago and they bring back so many memories.
I love going through each ornament as we put it on the tree and tell the story that goes with each one! Then the tree becomes my favorite decoration!
I have this pink elf—yes pink, and it goes on my tree every year because, that is the ornament my parents got me when I was born “50” yrs. ago and it is also dated 1960 with my Mother’s handwriting so I will never forget to put this ornament up.It was given to me in LOVE
I put out my grandma’s nativity set and the family Bible on a bed of angel hair. My two favorite things, besides the kiddos of course!
When I was a single mom, my girls and I bought an angel tree topper. I have been remarried for years, but the girls and I still put the angel on top of our tree. It makes me so very thankful of where I have been, and also who I have become.
we have a train that we set up around the Christmas tree. The kids light up with excitment and it gives them hours of entertainment.
I love getting the ornaments out for the tree. I have bought at least one sometimes more for my daughter as she is growing up. Now that she helps it is fun to see what she is into at that time. And I will give them to her when she gets older and when she umpack them she will have those memories too.
My favorite is my Nutcracker collection. My mom started buying them for me every christmas when I was 9 and we went to see it. I love all the different ones I have from the miniature 2 inch to the huge 4 foot one! It’s fun to reminisce when I got them!
It would be my Christmnas tree ornament collection from all the years we have been married and a family. Everyone has different ones that symbolize their individuality.
We have a white Christmas church that lites up and has a music box. My husbands parents gave it to us for christmas about 30 years ago. Brings back precious memories of the two of them!
Besides the tree, I have a set of three wise men that I put on a plant shelf. We have it set such that it is back lit and I just love looking at the wise men and thinking about the trek they made so long ago.
My favorite piece of holiday decor is a Christmas Tree. Putting one up and decorating it with the whole family has been a tradition since I was little. Picking out and placing each ornament with my family is a blast!!!
I have a “bucket” that hangs on the wall that has a red and black houndstooth moose on the front at my grandmother got me, and my grandfather found after she passed. It’s the first thing I put up and the last thing I take down every year.
My Christmas village. I have an entire story that goes along with each house/piece and the family has to listen to it each year when I put it up. It’s a lot of work, but I love it.
my favorite decor is our veggie tales nativity! we have had it since our children were small. we loved hearing them tell the Christmas story in their own version – it was so precious! we will have our 1st grandchild this week, so we will get to hear those stories once again in a few years!
My family has a four foot tall artificial Christmas tree. When my husband and I first got married and were living in an apartment, we thought we wouldn’t fuss with a big, live tree. My mom insisted, so she got us this tree. This will be our ninth Christmas together, and it will be the first thing we put up!
My favorite holiday decoration is a picture of my dad and I from the 50’s that I have in a vintage frame atop an old copy of “The Night Before Christmas” that he would read to me every Christmas Eve. He passed away when I was 17 and this preserved warm memory always brings a smile to my face when I unpack it and place it on my antiqued desk.
I would have to say that my favorite holiday item would be the stockings. I made each of them for every one of my kids. It is special to them and even though they are not little chilren anymore they still love their stockings
We have lots of traditional items we put out for Christmas decorating such as “Our First Christmas Together” ornament from….. 1981!!!! But, my more recent favorite is an advent calendar I made for our children in 1995 from felt and tiny ornaments. We added 3 more children after that and they all LOVE the calendar which makes it all the more precious to me as Mom! It is pretty nice , if I do say so myself!
I set out snowmen every where, on tables on the floor, hanging on walls, on my shelves, in the bathroom, in the kitchen, livingroom, everrrrryyyywhere! Got to love snowmen!!
A snowman candle that one of my former students gave me. This student didn’t have much, so I’ve kept it as a reminder that the holidays are not about gifts, but rather gestures and thoughts.
My favorite “piece” would have to be my tealight village. I love seeing the old fashioned schoolhouse, church, and general store all aglow. And the cinnamon scented candles make the while room smell like Christmas.
Its a ratty little village that we had when I was growing up. It reeks of 1970, LOL. I love it, it just makes me think happy thoughts.
I have a collection of Santas that I have been collecting ever since I got married that I unwrap every year and set them out all over my house. I love taking them out and marveling at the unique shapes and sizes of each and how different they all are! It is my favorite time of year seeing them all over my house decorating every corner!!
My favorite decorations to put out are my nativity sets. I keep finding more that I like and now have quite a collection.
A tree, but I have problem with it the last two years with my new toddler. So for the last 2 years, I put up a small wooden decoupaged tree. Can’t wait to put up a big one again.
Aside from our Christmas tree, i would say our stockings! They represent “family” to me. I love that they can each be very unique, but since they are all hung next to each other,they are a symbol of family unity to us. Thanks for the opportunity to win a great prize! This was a super exciting month!
I love to set out my nativity. I actually have several, but the one that i love the most is from our wedding, the willow tree nativity. Love all of the great items you and your team have created for this release!
I have some pretty Santa’s that have to come out every year and the red ones go in the “red” room, the maroon ones in the room decorated in marroon and beige and green go in that room. I just love Sants’s.
My favorite piece is the tree! Every year I love putting up the Christmas tree and picking out each ornament that will go on it. We usually pick a color theme and it is always fun to choose which will go on the tree and where!
I have my handmade quilted stockings that I made 18 years ago…there are the first thing I put out and the last to go away lol!
My favorite piece of holiday decor is a bank my father made from ceramics shop. It is a Santa with a jolly face and rosy cheeks standing by the chimney. Just by looking at him, you know he is contemplating the fact that he is a little too plump to go down the chimney! My Dad passed away when I was 5 – that was 55 years ago – and I still have my bank to remember his crafty talent! I still miss him so!
To name just one thing is very difficult. Christmas is my favorite time of year. I love to put up my christmas trees (3) and the cross-stitched christmas stockings that I made for my husband and kids.
The star on top of the tree for me – it is a gold star with an Angel head on it – you put a clear bulb behind it to light it up – my parents bought it the year I was born and I took it with me(along with tons of ornaments that when we traveled when I was a child – we bought an ornament everywhere we went) when I got married………
My Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus dolls. The clothes were made by my mom and grandma…very special.
When we were in college, my now husband purchased a cute, but inexpensive little nativity set. (The figures are only about an inch tall!) I admired it when I first saw it, and he replied that the only way I could have it would be to marry him. After six years of dating, we did get married, and now the running joke is that I married him, so I could have the honor of displaying his nativity set in my home! 🙂
I always put out my nativity scene out each year! By looking at it periodically, helps me put the perspective on the holiday season.
My favorites are the ornaments my son has made for our tree. He is always so proud of them and they make the tree so special!
I have a porcelain snowman collection that I LOVE! I really like any sort of snowman, so my house is very full of them!
My favorite piece of holiday decor that I put out every year, without fail, is a wooden reindeer set that consists of three reindeer. Mom, Dad and a Rudolph. My father hand crafted a set of these deer for each of his children and I have cherished mine since the Christmas I opened them well over a decade ago. And these reindeer have survived so much. Two growing boys and two cats! Every time I glance upon them as they set out for the holidays I think of my dad. I will cherish them forever.
Stocking that our aunt knitted for me and my siblings and cousins when we were just kids. They bring back the fond memories of being excited to open gifts and starting with stockings.
I set out my Willow Tree Nativity every year. It is usually the very first and most treasured thing for us as a family.
Christmas is my favorite holiday for decorating especially theme trees – snowman tree, Santa tree and then there’s the big tree in the living room with nothing but Hallmark ornaments I’ve collected over the past 30+ years.
I would have to say my collection of snowmen. I always keep them up after taking down the christmas decorations.
My favorite is a Christmas trimmed basket my mom gave me for the first Christmas in my new home. That was years ago, but the basket has survived four moves and is packed up and ready for move number five!
A door hanging that my Aunt made for each of her nieces and nephews out of rope taken from the hay loft in their barn (their farm has been in the family for generations). She decorated the rope for Christmas so that we each could hang it in our house and remember all of the Christmas’ we have spent on the farm.
I love to put out star ornaments, because it reminds me of that first Christmas so long ago.
I hosted an ornament exchange party for several years and hanging each hand-made ornament on the tree each year reminds me of treasured friendships, wonderful parties, and special memories. One memory was the year my daughter decided to give birth a few hours before my party–I was ready when people arrived, but my eyes felt as red as Santa’s coat!
My favorite ornaments for Christmas are some jingle bell santas with our names on, which I bought the first year I met my husband… and have enlarged my collection along with our family ever since!!!
For the last 4 years it is my MArtha Stewart Christmas tree … I decorated it in white, blue and “ice” (even have an ice chunk garland) Its prelit with white lights and I adore my “grown up” tree.
Well, now that I no longer have a cat, I think I’m going to enjoy setting up a Christmas tree and some other trimmings. 🙂 I can’t wait!
Every year we put out my grandfather’s small Santa figurine that belonged to his own father, making it well over 100 years old. It’s wonderful to imagine my grandfather as a child with his Santa, and knowing that my own children share the delight and anticipation of Christmas as he did when preparing for the holidays.
My favorite Christmas decoration is our stockings. When my Grandmother had to go into the nursing home we had to clean out her house. She had a lot of old quilts stored in the top of on of her closets. Everyone wanted to throw them away but I said no way. Finally we decided to use the worst ones to cut up to make stockings for all her grandchildren. And since I was in charge of them all I also made some for my kids and husband. So we now all have a stocking made from some of Mamaw Roses old quilts. They will always be cherished.
I love pulling out my children’s ornaments from over the years—we bought a special one for every year—not necessarily expensive, just something the I can look at and think “oh, that was 5th grade”—because it just signified something big in their life that year. My oldest got married in May and I was just thinking the other day that I REALLY would miss having all those on my tree this year—-I haven’t handed them over…..maybe she can just visit them every Christmas….at MY HOUSE!!! It’s the sweetest part of the decorating for me!
My favorite holiday decor that I set out are all of the ornaments I’ve collected over the years. Some are new & some are my Great Grand Parents. Each ones has a special meaning in its own way.
Our tree-I always say I wish it was “pretty” with matching decorations and little white lights but really, I like all our funny little ornaments and multicolored lights. Our tree is well-loved and decorated entirely by our three kids.
Although a little more tattered and faded each year, Christmas ornaments that I made in my childhood continue to bring back so many happy memories (and are a reminder that I loved to craft even way back then!)
My fav thing to put out is the oversized Christmas mittens my sister knit us instead of stockings Each one is knit in different patterns and colors and all personalized with our names… they look way cool all hung in a row, however I do also love the goodies that get stuffed inside them too =)
I have a coworker whose daughter is great at decoupage and makes the most gorgeous cigar boxes with pieces of old greeting cards. When I got my own place, she made me a miniature Christmas tree with a beautiful white lace fringe for leaves. It is “decorated” with silver and violet beads, and tiny violet ribbon roses. It’s the first thing I put out and the last thing I take down.
I just adore the lights at Christmas! There’s nothing like turning off all of the lamps and sitting by the fire with the glow of the tree lights. That along with some pine scented candles always set the mood for the holidays for me!
Each year I think I should try more sophisticated decorations now that my daughter is older, yet each year I unpack the Fisher Price Little People nativity first. I can’t walk by without handling one of the pieces, and it always makes us smile as it reminds us of the real reason for the holiday.
It’s an angel that my good friend hand crafted for me in 1982! Every year I carefully pack it away, and the following Christmas happily take it back out of the box. My decorations are pink and light green and the angel fits in beautifully.
My favorite thing to set out isn’t at my house, but at my mom’s house. She has a 2 foot ceramic Santa Clause holding a lantern that actually lights up. She painted it herself and it is beautiful. We always place it right in front of the Christmas tree to greet Santa when he comes on Christmas Eve. I hope to have something like that to share with my children someday soon.
My favorite is a silver reindeer and sleigh set. It is so beautiful, sleek and always makes me smile!
I have a tiny ceramic puppy inside Santa’s boot that my grandmother gave me one year. I lost her when I was 10 and I really miss that she didn’t get to see me grow and succeed. I put that little puppy out every year on the mantle so she can still be a part of my new family.
We are never home for Christmas so my decorations are pretty limited. My favorite would have to be the ornaments that we have collected over the years. So many have special meanings and memories. I love going through them each year as we decorate the tree.
Love putting out all my snowmen. They get to stay out all winter!
Thanks for the continuous inspiration with this month’s release! I love each one you do! As for x-mas decorations, I always set out snowmen, on the tree, door hanger’s, or on the fireplace…
Can’t wait to see the rest of the release….
Michele h..
I love all my holiday decorations because so many have been so thoughtfully made and given to me. My favorite, however, is our nativity set handed down to us by my husband’s aunt. During all the hustle and bustle of the holiday season it keeps me focused on the true reason for the season.
My favorite piece of decor is the ornaments I hang on my tree. The ornamants are from all the differnt places we have been. Eveytime we go on vacation we buy an ornament to place on the tree. Also, I have ornaments from my grandmother that she has given to my children every year with the date on it. So, every ornament on my tree is VERY sentimantal to me. So, I LOVE decorating my tree because it’a all about memories.
I ADORE Christmas trees – every size, shape, color, and so my favorite part of the season is setting out my trees (6 and counting … of all different sizes 🙂 and also going to see all the gorgeous colorful decorations and decorated trees at the stores to get ideas. Color makes me happy and collecting ornaments that have special meaning to me lets me relive fun memories every time I decorate the trees (and take them down)!
My favorite Holiday decoration is my Willow Tree Nativity Set. I collect the Willow Tree figures and this one is especially important to me…so much so that it actually stays out all year round. 😉
– April W
The nutcracker my husband gave me. I came home one day from work before we were married and the nutcracker was guarding the parlor; I couldn’t figure out where he came from. It was like magic. Then I figured out that my now husband (who had a key to my house) had dropped it off as a surprise, but for that one moment the magic of Christmas was there; anything is possible. Thanks for the chance to win; what a great release!
We have a cubicle decorating contest at work every year, and I always enjoy putting out everything for my theme — all my christmas tiggers, all of my christmas beanie babies, and all of my hand-made christmas items from last year. That is my favorite part of the holidays. At home, I like putting all my Tigger ornaments on the Christmas tree.
WOW – this is the easiest question ever. Definitely the Nativity Set. That is what Christmas is all about, isn’t it? Also, my MIL got it for us when we first married, and each year for about 10 years, she would add additional pieces for us – what a great question, and it definitely made me smile. In just 2 weeks, my MIL will have been gone for ten years, I bet she is happy with my answer!
That is an easy one. I have 4 tiny little angel ornaments that must go on the tree every year. I got them when I was 2. There was a set of twelve and only 4 remain. I used to have to kiss each of the angels good night which I am sure drove my mother crazy but there are many good memories in this tradition.
I love my nativity sets and handmade angels made by some lovely ladies that are no longer with us. Love those special memories.
A pink ceramic Christmas tree that my mom painted in ceramics class (early 1970’s). It has a wind up music box in the base that plays Santa Claus is coming to town. My mom still loves seeing it in my room every year. When my daughter is a bit older it will go in her room.
My favorite (or one of them anyway!) holiday decoration is a pair of wood elves named Kringle, and Noel, that I made years ago. The little charmers climb a ladder and hang out in our Christmas tree! I have made and given several sets to family members since I made ours. It wouldn’t be Christmas without them!!
Each of my three children have a Little Tikes nativity set and they are now 10, 8 and 3 and they each look forward to setting their set up evry year.
i have several pieces of holiday decor that I love, but my favorite things to unwrap each year are my ornaments. They are a mix of family treasures and heirlooms along with things I’ve collected in my travels. It is a lovely trip down Memory Lane each year when I trim the tree.
My favorite is a quilted tree skirt with a heart theme made by my Motner. She lovingly chose all the special Christmas fabrics, knowing how much I love hearts, and then stitched every piece together by hand. Every year it brings back all those warm memories of how special my Mom made all of the Christmases for our family and how much I miss her. That tree skirt fills my heart with joy and reminds me how much we were loved.
Our Christmas tree is my favorite…love the lights at night, there is something magical and calming when it is lit.
My favorite piece of decor is the hand-made wreath which I made in high school year. I still keep it and put it on our entrance door every year. My family know that it is Christmas time by seeing it. I love it so much!!
My favorite peice of holiday decor is a wooden train that my husband got as a little boy. We have set it out every year at Christmas time under our tree and, now that we have a little boy of our own, we can pass on the tradition to him.
The Christmas tree is my favorite piece of holiday decor because I inherited my grandmother’s Scandinavian tree ornaments. Ever since I moved into her house, I have enjoyed putting up her treasured ornaments each year at Christmas. They are a fond memory of her and our shared Norwegian heritage.
I LOVE putting up my tree every year. Dec. 1st – pop in some Christmas music, make some hot chocolate and then start decorating. I love putting up my ornaments that I’ve acquired over the years – from a great-aunt who gave us one a year until we were 16 (that we were to take with us when we left home to start our own trees); from siblings, parents, and friends; to ones I bought myself ’cause they were just too cute to resist. All with memories of people, places and Christmases past.
I have knit giant, personalized stockings for my family. They combine my favourite tweedy wools in earthy tones. Although I enjoy admiring my handiwork throughout the holidays, the best moment is to see them stuffed and grossly distorted on Christmas morning. Knitted stockings can accommodate an astonishing amount of treasure. 😉
Russian hand carved toys that are over 100 years old that belonged to my father. They are 2 sleighs and a carraige all with horses.
My tree (and ornaments/decorations, of course! My ornaments, tinsel and ribbons are all shades of teal with a touch of *lime* green and I love how it fits perfectly into my home at this special time of year.
My husband and I have ornaments for every year since we were born and every Christmas we have so much fun spending an evening playing Christmas music and unwrapping each ornament and remembering past Christmas and why each ornament was chosen for that year. It is a wonderful holiday tradition.
I have a church that lights up and changes colors, I love putting it on my mantle each year and sitting in the dark and watching the lights twinkle and change colors while listening to Christmas music!
Definetly our tree! So many memories, with all of ornaments. Dated ones, homemade ones, kids ones, all of our favorites. It’s a tradition to get a new one every year, so when my kids move out, they will have a stocked tree of memories of their own <3!
When we were little, I always remember being sooo excited on Dec. 1st when we brought out the advent calendar! My mom had made it – a big wall hanging stitched with a tree, and 24 pockets along the bottom that held little ornaments. Each day we would put one up on the tree. A few years ago, I recreated a similar calendar, inspired by the one my mom made. She is no longer with us, but I think of her every year when we get out the calendar… and I see the same joy and excitement in my boys when it’s time to start the “countdown”! That’s when it seems like Christmas is really almost here! 🙂
My favorite holiday decor are my Dept 56 houses, I get them out each year and set up the village, its magical…
Every Christmas I put out a ceramic house with 3 Carolers that my sister made me years ago. I love hand made gifts from loved ones.
I love hanging my christmas wreath on the front door!! It’s dear and special to me as my daughter made it years ago!
I just love every year getting out our Christmas tree and all it’s trimmings. Our entire tree will be covered with Hallmark ornaments….I love to see the kids unwrap them and hang them on the tree. What wonderful memories!
I have a scarecrow I put on the porch in the fall. Cute! I love the release this month!
We have a set of three wooden reindeer that sit on my mantle every Christmas. My father in law made them the first year my husband and I were married. My father in law passed away 8 years ago, so it’s something we have that always reminds us of him.
I think mine would have to be my Christmas tree with our collection of ornaments. My parents bought a new ornament for me each year. When I left home they gave me my box of ornaments. Each ornament is dated. Now we do the same for our daughter only we can never limit it to just one!!! Our ornament collection has grown so that we have a tree in each bedroom too. Each ornament has such special memories.
Our most precious piece of decor is the angel that tops our tree. I made it over 15 years ago and was, I am am realizing now, my first real paper craft! It is now a little worse for wear, but it still looks lovely at the top of our tree and reminds me of all the wonderful Christmases we have had together.
My fake Christmas tree. Real trees cause breathing problem for the little ones in my family. My little ones are all teenagers now but, the same tree still is put up. All those memories of decorating the tree with my collection and each of the kids collections of ornaments. The most special ones are the homemade ones from school and the tree topper that my dad alway put on his tree. My father has passed but, putting this on the top of the tree makes me feel so close to my dad. Tree decorating night is how we start our holiday season.
My favourite holiday decor is not traditional at all – it’s a playpen! For the last 5 years it has surrounded our Christmas tree, to keep little fingers from undressing the tree and opening presents early. It’s so special to share the wonder of Christmas with young children, and each year as I put the playpen around the tree I am thankful for the joy our little ones bring to the occassion, and mindful that all too soon the playpen will no longer be necessary.
My absolute favorite is a rather homely angel,visibly tattered and a little torn. My son at the age of five bought this at his school’s “Green Christmas” where parents donate treasures to be recycled , students get to buy presents at extremely reasonable prices, and the school receives a little profit. He had to give it to me near the beginning of December, as he was too excited to wait until Christmas.
Snowflakes that my grandmother knitted for me-she gave them to my husband and I when we got married. It makes me happy every year to open the box and see them again!
There are a few special ornaments that live in my china cabinet all year long. They mean so much to me and hold too many memories to just be packed away and only enjoyed a few weeks out of the year.
Thanks for sharing!!
~Lana B~
My PEACE stocking holders. Even though we moved to a new house without a mantle, we place them on a ledge.
The Christmas ornaments that my kids have made over the years are my favorite decorations to unpack and hang. They all bring back so many happy memories!!! Makes for a fun night of decorating with hot cocoa and sugar cookies!!!
It has to be our stockings. Every year our family makes a big deal about the new family members (pets included) and the family members that have left us. It’s always a special time.
Our Precious Moments nativity scene. My husband purchased it for me a few pieces at a time for our first couple of Christmases together. We were newlyweds and he was in the military only a few years then, so these seemed very expensive to us. Now 27 years later, they are more valuable than gold to me, and are the first things that get set out when we decorate!
We have a pretty small apartment, so we don’t have a lot we put out. Someday I hope to make a couple an advent calendar for each of my future kids. I’d love to start traditions like that for my family.
Love the Christmas stockings, each with a name hanging thier waiting to be filled. Also it’s such fun collecting small gifts to fill them.
My favorite is taking out the ornaments, especially the ones my boys have made over the years, and hanging them on the tree.
Many years ago I purchased a decorated wall tree that was prelit and even though the size of my family and home has changed many times since I have always found a place to hang this at xmas. Its warm glow is the one consistent in a very inconsistent and changing world.
We have a nativity set that has become a family tradition. The stable was built by my grandfather and my mother filled it with figures bought in the 5&10 in the 1950’s. Now it’s just my husband, Mom and me, but I can still see out sons placing the baby Jesus in the manger on Christmas morning, before opening gifts.
Hello Ladies,
How exciting the new sets are!!!!
Anyway, I have to say the one thing I put out every Christmas is 2 ornaments which my mother gave me when I was little. One is a
hand blown glass star and the other one is set of chime bells. They were hand blown by my Grandfather. They go on my tree every year.
My favourite is definitely the tree! I LOVE to decorate it, first with my family as I was growing up, and now with my husband! It is such a great tradition of a nice evening together getting ready for the holidays and all that they bring with them!
I always enjoy getting out my boxes of ornaments and “discovering” them all again . . . that’s my favorite!!
On the 14th of every month I log in, in part, just to see the comments come flooding in on your release contest posts… Amazing! 🙂 Fingers crossed!
I have a giant snowflake that I put out on my front door every year. Love it!
I love to do the light infornt of my house it make it look so festive.
My pencil tree in my kitchen, that my grandson decorates every year with a new ornament he picks out, I love watching his face as he puts everything on the tree, there is nothing better
Our Christmas stockings! I originally bought them on sale at Pottery Barn. At the time we only had two kids and I was pretty sure that we would have one more, so I ordered an extra one at the time. Well, four years later and we had our 4th child…and I didn’t have a matching stocking for her. That’s where I found a deep appreciation for Ebay, can you believe that I found ONE on there four years later?! I will confess it had the name Sue embroidered on it, but a seam ripper took care of that and I was able to have my dd’s name embroidered on it and you can hardly tell!
My grandmother made this ceramic light up Christmas Tree that I have had since I was a child. It make me remember what Christmas is all about.
I love all of my snowmen and I have a Christmas “Swoose” that I painted many years ago that is probably my favorite!
Definitely my Christmas tree because that is the one thing all 8 of us do together. We put on Christmas music and the kids decorate the tree while DH and I “supervise.” Each ornament has a story and I love remembering them each year. Then most nights during the season I sit in the room with the tree, a good book and some hot chocolate…..I just LOVE that tree!!
I set out my manger with all of the little figurines. When my mom and dad were married, they got a holiday postcard from a friend in Germany. My mom jokingly told my uncle to make her a manger set just like the one on the postcard. SURPRISE! He did!! It is a big part of my life growing up and I now set up the manger EVERY year in my house….
My favorite piece is a cermaic table top Christmas tree that lights up … it was hand painted by my grandmother many years ago and she gave it to me when I got married — I’ve had it for 24 years now and just cherish it 🙂
The weekend after Thanksgiving we always go out to get our tree, which is so much more than decor. I love setting it up as a family and enjoying it for the entire month with its delicious aroma filling the house.
while my mom was pregnant with my sister in 1958 she made a bunch of ornamants from kits with styrofoam balls covered with velvet ribbon, pearls and glass beads. my mom is gone and the ornaments have deteriorated but my 2 sisters and I still cherish them.
I love my navity by Willow Tree. I bought it the first year of marriage and love setting it up every year. It is what Christmas is all about.
I love our Christmas stockings. They are really large and everyone in the family has one. We shop all year for the most perfect stocking stuffers and we “open” our socks on Christmas morning before the gifts.
When my grandmother passed away, my mother took her fur coats and shawls and had a fabulous and unique Father Christmas made for each of us: for me and my two sisters; my aunt; and herself. My Santa is in elegant black mink—I know that may sound horrid to some but the coat was probably manufactured in the 40s when wearing fur was acceptable. A little miniature framed photo of my Grandma, snowshoes that represent our love of winter and other treasures that remind me of her are tucked into his leather satchel. This is the first piece of holiday decor I bring out—I think it should come out soon—and the last I put away (usually by Valentine’s day).
Candles! I love to pull out my pumpkin scented candles, my apple scented candles, and my vanilla candles and light up whichever one fits my mood. 🙂
It would have to be our Christmas tree that holds over 30 years of memories. It includes ornaments my kids made and now the grandchildren. I love it.
Our nativity set–very old, very worn and yet brings tears to my eyes every year. Thanks for the chance to win.
Hmmm…well, lately it changes year to year since we’ve been moving around. I love these three little reindeer that my bff got me many years ago!
We always cut down a live tree each year & decorate it with strings of cranberries, homemade beeswax ornaments & strips of homespun tied onto it’s branches.
My little snowman decorated tree and snowman nativity set. It is so sweet! gosh i hope i win this fabulous prize!!!! cant wait to order my new stuff!!
I have a MDF cut out of the word “WISH” that is covered in ruby red glitter. It must be 9″x12″. It sits on my mantle and is magical, it reminds me of childhood. It probably means something different to everyone who sees it. I think it is funny that one word can make an impact piece in my holiday decor.
My favorite holiday decorations are the Christmas village my sister painted for me!!! This is truly a priceless decoration. My children have so much fun telling me where to put the houses and they enjoy it even though I keep it about 5 feet off the ground!!!
My favorite holiday decoration is the angel on top of my tree. It was the first Christmas decoration that I bought on my own for my first apartment. I’ve had her for over 20 years and her delicate porcelain face just radiates peace & joy.
The Christmas Tree. Last year I changed my color scheme to teal and silver – LOVED IT! Plus, I got one of the pre-lit “skinny” trees with white lights.
I put out the 4 Santas made from wood found in the bayous – are they called “elbows”? I got them on my first trip to the States and have them out every year without fail.
My favorite things that I set out at the holidays are my childrens “baby’s first Christmas” ornaments. I wrap them gingerly each year for safe keeping and when I unwrap them each year…I am completely amazed at how fast time has flown since they celebrated that first holiday. I love them.
When my husband and I lived in Japan a few years ago, a student of mine took a taxi to our home to deliver a large plant, decorated with small bells & red plastic apples, as a substitute for a Christmas tree. This touched me so much, especially since she herself belonged to a religion that does not celebrate Christmas. But she did it for us, knowing we wouldn’t have a Christmas tree that season we lived there. Each year I get out those small apples & bells and place them on our family tree and remember her thoughtful gift.
I really love the tree ornaments. My husband and I have given each other ornaments every year since we’ve been married. I love looking back at those. I also enjoy seeing the ones that other people — friends, students — have given me through the years. It seem like each one has its own special story and reflects part of my life.
My must have for the holidays is a wreath my grandfather made years ago. It fits perfectly outside between two big windows where absolutely nothing else would look right up there. Every time I drive in the driveway and see the lights on the wreath I smile and think of my Grandpa.
hand painted pumpkin that I made when we were first married.. now it is 19 years old and still makes us smile when we put it on the door every year!
This is an easy one! I have a ceramic santa that my Grandmother put out on her mantle every holiday season since I was a kid. It is the first decoration that I put out each year *and the last one to be packed away), and it makes me smile every time that I walk by it.
I would have to say my tree is probably my favorite decor item. Christmas is my FAVORITE holiday – and my tree goes up the weekend after Thanksgiving, and stays up until Little Christmas. It kicks off the full swing of the Christmas season for me…
My favourite peice of Holiday Decor is a large (1 foot high) Nutcracker Music Box that I got from my parents one year.
It plays different music, and spins to reveal different scenes from the nutcracker. I just love it and my son is in love with it too…he plays with it frequently throughout the year !!!
Thanks for the chance to win such a fantastic prize !!
I have a large collection of snowman, but when my very first snowman cookie jar comes out of storage, I know its holiday time!
My Grandmothers vintage glass tree ornaments
the paint is peeling but revamping them is not an option. Each year as my boys get older the ornaments move further down the tree and they know they were once gran’s
I love to decorate our tree with all the Christmas ornaments we have collected over the years.
we put out a small christmas tree.
oooo, that’s hard to say, but my favorite is the didukh. What is a didukh, you ask? It’s a traditional Ukrainian decoration of grains stemming from pagan times, and is supposed to remind you of all of your ancestors. A simple didukh looks a lot like the stamp from First Fruits, actually….(gets idea for card :D)
My favorite Christmas decoration that will always be foremost amongst all the holiday items in my home is my nativity set. My set is made by Precious Moments and consists of small statues of little children dressed in costumes portraying all those present at the birth of the Savior. My children loved to play with them when they were small, and now my grandchildren enjoy them as well. They use them to act out there own story of the savoir. Even though the tip of Joseph’s staff has broken and there are a few chilps in the figurines, they are still treasures to me.
The PTI releases for this month are truly magical and so beautifully illustrate the holiday season. I am excited to have what I can purchase in my own stamping collection.
Ohhh, that is easy! It is a handmade (clay) manger scene given to us by one of the churches we served. One year when I was feeling like a humbug, we only had that and a tree. It isn’t Christmas without it.
Fab new release btw!!
that’s an easy one…i have these two halloween decorations that are black vintage looking candlestick holders, but instead of a candle, there is a vintage looking jack-o-lantern sitting on top of black tulleing. it’s one of those with the huge toothy smiles. i really love them…halloween is my favorite!
My favorite piece of holiday decor is my Willow Tree Nativity…I feel it is the most beautiful and precious Christmas item I have…given to me by my 3 children for birthdays and Mother’s Day gifts over a couple years, and I treasure it!!
The singing Hallmark Snowmen! I love (and collect) snowmen (but they must have arms, no stick snowmen for me!!) and the Singing Hallmark ones captured my heart immediately. We have almost all of them and we put them on the main coffee table and our kids have a BLAST with them. Our only rule is after the first time of *all* of them playing at once is “only one at a time” and everyone stop and sing and dance a long. Makes wonderful memories and lots of laughs all season long!
My favorite is a nativity set my daughter made as a young child. She used clothespins for the people and each one has clothes of felt decorated with DMC floss, yarn, ric rac, whatever she could find. She even made a little manger out of popsicle sticks with baby Jesus laying in there. This nativity always has the place of honor in our home each Christmas.
An advent calendar with a big felt tree, 24 little pockets below and figures made out of felt that stick on the tree…it was made for me when I was 8 years old, by a good friend of my mother’s. (That was 42 years ago, and both those ladies are gone now, but I still put up the Advent Calender that Marge made…)
My favorite are my glass ornaments. I have been collecting them since we got married 32 years ago this year. Each one reminds me of a different part of our lives.
My favorite: The stockings that my kids made when they were 6, 5, and 3years old. They glued little pinecones, trinkets and lots of glitter onto them. They are a beautiful mess and I love them!
My favorite thing is ANYTHING to do with Christmas. I love my tree and my stockings that my mom needlepointed for my family. I love looking at my cheerful collection of Santas. Christmas time is the best time of year and looking at all the beautiful, cheerful holiday items warms my heart.
My favorite piece of Holiday decor would have to be the ornaments that hang on our tree. Every year since my husband and I have been married we have purchased or made an ornament to hang on the tree, in addition to that every year we also add an ornament for my daughter something that pertains to her life that year.
That would be my angel on top of the tree. My tree just isn’t complete until its there and we have the tradition now that my daughter puts it up.
We have a wooden Santa that counts down the days til Christmas that has to be put out every year. The kids love it and they all take turns taking a day off everyday and it is so much fun to see the happiness and excitement in their eyes to know that Christmas is one day closer.
Every year, I like to decorate the mantel with lots of pieces from my nutcracker collection. It’s growing bigger every year!
My dad made me a poinsettia centerpiece for my table when I first got married. I love that centerpiece and I use it every year. Now that my dad is gone it means even more to me.
I always place a big glass vase on the mantle, and fill it with an assortment of shiney balls. It’s like a mini Christmas display. The colour scheme changes from year to year, sometimes I layer in ribbons or garlands around it, but I just love that little area. The Christmas tree is for the whole family, but the vase is like my own interpretation of the holiday every year!
other than my tree it would have to be the wreath that i made the first year we were in our own place which has only been 5 years. however at my mother’s there is a nativity set that is treasured. we have glued those wisemen’s heads on so many times that we’ve all lost count. lol
My favorite holiday item is the framed photo of my son standing next to the “Charlie Brown” Christmas tree that we cut down at a friend’s house in northern Maine. My son was 4 years old at the time and so proud of his discovery. He is 21 now. Just thinking about that day makes me smile.
All of it!!! Christmas is my favorite holiday. I suppose my tree (it’s artificial) is my favorite decoration. I have ornaments on it that I have slowly accumulated over the years and each has so much meaning to me.
My favorite would be hanging all of the special Christmas ornaments made by my daughter as she grew up. Crafts from church and school and ones we made at the annual Christmas tree festival in own town. I especially treasure the Rudolph made from her fingerprint when she was about 8 years old. She is now married and has 2 children of her own.
My favorite are the ornaments I have collected over the past 40 years. I enjoy putting each of them on the tree and remembering the memories associated with each.
My tree of course! The decor may change but a holiday without my tree is NO holiday! It symbolizes the joy of the season!
My wreath that I put on the front door. It’s the last thing I see when I leave my house and the first thing I see when I get home. It gives me such a warm feeling, I love it!
Wow…that is a hard one. My favorite thing I set out each year at Christmas time is the vintage ornaments passed down from my mother. I get so excited every year unwrapping them from the tissue paper. I just stare at them for hours after I put them on the tree.
My most treasured decorations are the tree ornaments my children have made over the years, especially the ones that incorporated photos of the children. It is always so much fun unpacking them, checking the back side for a date and remembering way back to when the ornament was made. I have to admit it, it also makes me a bit teary eyed to see how much they have grown over the years.
My favorite piece is a Cookies for Santa tray I made a few years ago. I love setting the cookies and milk out on the tray every year with my boys.
my stocking, as well as the rest of the families. I have had that stocking since my very first Christmas and that is a long,long time. I love to see all of the things that we have had in our family that I remember every year and all the happy memories come back every time I see them. Like old friends.
We have a tree on our mantel piece, sprayed gold branches in a large vase, we change the decorations for each season, Easter, winter, spring, Christmas, Valentines Day etc. The kids LOVE it.
I can’t wait to pull our my tree skirt that my Mom quilted for me. I know that I will be using this tree skirt for every year to come.
The first thing I set out and the last I pack away each year is my Christmas china.
I think mine would be my collection of quilted wallhangings that I have made over the years. My favorite is a large piece with all Santa’s reindeer. Each reindeer has a nose about the size of a quarter covered in French knots. I worked on that piece forever!!! I don’t think I ever want to make another French knot again but I sure love the wallhanging!
A festive wreath for the front door is must each year to greet our guests.
My favorite is a snow family made out of gorgeous, white, unglazed porcelain, accented with gold. They decorate an antique buffet in my entrance every year, complete with snow, and everyone knows Christmas is coming when they come out, because they are always the first thing I bring out. And though they just came from Sam’s, I treasure them because we got them our first year back home in TN and our daughter’s first real Christmas (their 1st actual Christmas was spent in a NICU). They represent 13 years of beautiful and wonderful memories and I will be devastated if I were to ever lose them.
I have a beautiful ceramic menorah that I received for my wedding from a close friend and I love to display it all year round but especially at Chanukah!
I love anything with snowflakes and lots of candles!!
My favorite decorations are the 6 Christmas trees that we put up every year — each decorated with a different theme. We have a tree upstairs, in the basement, and in every room downstairs!
The stockings that I made for my husband kids and myself!
I have a crystal reindeer that I love. I always leave it out a little too long even after the holidays are over.
My favorite item is our nativity sets……reminds us of the true reason for Christmas.
Hhhmmmm, my favorite decor is my husband’s xmas stocking. It’s a huge stocking made out of raffia-type of material and trimmed with red ribbon. There is a picture of a Hawaiian type of Santa with a hula skirt, no shirt, big belly, and a red stocking cap on. It’s got a definite island flair! I bought it at a local craft fair because it totally reminded me of him. He got a big kick out of when I brought it home and hung it up. Now the kids love to see it at Christmas to remind them of their daddy who is in heaven now.
So many to choose from…I made my grandparents a ceramic Santa a long time ago and after they passed on, my mother gave it back to me so that’s a very special piece I take good care of and love unwrapping each year now in my own home. My other favorite are all the stockings. I love seeing those up for my husband and our kiddos. I love everything about the holidays!
Aside from the tree, we always put up a creche which has been in the family for years. Also, about ten years ago my mother bought me a set of small ceramic bears (similar in design to boyd’s bear) each holding a letter to spell “joy” which are one of my favorite decorations.
My favorite has actually be replaced by my daughter’s request. We were really poor when she was younger(things have gotten much better), but every Christmas eve I would give her two lunch bags to color which we would use for our stockings. And we would set up the tiny tree and when she woke up there would be gifts from a church that adopted us under the tree and Santa, of course. I wish I had been able to keep track of those little bags because they represented our little family. My gift to her one year was handmade stockings which we setout every year, so no more paper bags, but I’m happy the stockings bring her so much joy 🙂
At our house, the favorite piece of decor is the Christmas tree–everyone loves decorating it and the cats love sleeping under it!
I love Christmas so we have a lot of decorations but my favorite is the Nativity figures because it reminds me to think of the true meaning of Christmas.
I have a Santa collection that finds a home up the stairs (between the spindles) in our foyer. They are the first thing to come out of hiding when the decorating begins.
I’d have to say mini white Christmas tree lights..they twinkle and add such an ambiance to any room with Christmas decorations..
My favorite holiday item to put out is my collection of Hallmark snowmen. I get a new one every year and I just love to press the buttons and listen to their little songs and watch them dance! My kids love them too!
Candles… Christmas scents! They make me so happy!
My nativity scene snow globe. It plays the song “Oh Holy Night”. I absolutely LOVE it! Thanks for the chance to win! 🙂
I love my nativity sets that I have collected over the year…especially my Willowtree set when it is put up against the dark brick of our fireplace
My nativity set. I believe that it represents why I celebrate Christmas.
A tarnished silver bell that was my dad’s favorite ornament from his childhood. Placing it on the tree every year is a way to celebrate and honor who he was…and who he will always be in my heart.
I have a set of hand made Xstitch stockings that I made for my family. The best part is when my husband and I were first married he wanted to learn how to cross stitch, so his Christmas stocking is mostly made by him. Special memories.
I set out my nativity set every year. My dad and mom brought it from the Holy Land, so it is extra special.
My favorite piece of holiday decor is a quilted Christmas Tree skirt that my grandmother made for me. It is brightly colored and ruffly, and just adds to the holiday happiness. Plus, it reminds me of her.
I must say it has got to be the Christmas tree with all of it’s twinkling lights and decorations. Then the icing on the cake is putting all of the gifts under the tree. Of course this year there may be fewer after tonight. 🙂
My favorite holiday decor is the Christmas village that I display. It has become a tradition that I started when my son’s were very young. They are grown now, but they still look for the village when they come home for Christmas.
My Nativity is my favorite. It is the perfect reminder of what the season is all about.
I don’t have any Christmas decorations of my own yet, but every year I love helping my grandma set up her tree with her Department 56 North Pole village underneath! It always looks so magical, especially when it’s all lit up!
I love snowmen. I think they are so jolly and cute. Since we do not get snow much here in Alabama, it is as close as I am going to get. You northerners just laugh at our snow!!!!
If you come for a visit to my house at the Holidays, you will find my collection of hand-made stuffed Snowmen and Snow ladies lovingly scattered throughout the house!
My late brother-in-law was a glass blower. It makes me smile to bring out the ornaments he made us when he was a student and couldn’t afford anything “better” (ie. store bought) I only wish he had realized just how much he was appreciated when he was still around 🙁
I love putting all the Christmas ornaments my children have made through the years on our tree. My children are all grown up now and having babies of their own….but they love coming over and looking at those cute little creations they made. It seems that there is a story that goes with each one. As time goes by I will be giving those ornaments to them to put on their family trees!
I know this seems like a “well, duh” but my favorite thing is the Christmas tree itself.
I have several in various shapes and sizes.
I think the most I put up was 5 one year.
My daughter graduated college mid-year after a long run at it and we had a celebraTION the whole month of December.
Every year I still hang my stocking with care. My Aunt knitted it for me when I was born…a very long time ago. I think of her and all the traditions of my family when I was youg and the magic returns. Love it.
My Christmas tree! We cover it with ornaments that have so many memories. Every time we take a trip, we try to find an ornament that represents that place. It’s like a walk down Memory Lane!
My favorite piece(s) that I set out every year would be the miniature trees from Hallmark with all of their miniature ornaments. My husband’s mother started one for him years ago when he was a child. We continued to purchase them after we were married until they stopped making them. I love that even though the ornaments are tiny they have movable parts.
I love to hang my stockings above the fireplace!
My favorite thing is my nativity set that my grandmother painted. She painted it for me after my grandfather passed away as her “therapy”. She passed away this spring and even the thought of having something so special brings tears to my eyes.
My nativity scene. It is so beautiful and reminds me of the meaning of Christmas.
I have a string of three heavy brass bells on a beautiful burgundy cord. These bells belonged to my mom and dad and they were hung on the front door of our home every Christmas when I was young. My mom died when I was 10. Even though I received very little of her possessions, I was blessed to get these brass bells. I think of her every Christmas and know that her spirit is with me.
Goodness, that’s a tough question. We’re a young family and still accumulating holiday decorations but I love to display our old and new ornaments. I also love to fill apothecary jars with bright glass balls to accent the season. I’ve found it’s an inexpensive way to use my jars in many seasons.
For the last several years (since I “grew up,”) I’ve picked up an ornament everywhere I’ve traveled – decorating the tree also serves as a flood of great memories with family and friends – it’s definitely my favorite part!
I’m a huge fan of the TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (You know the one with the Bumble) — I have a ceramic town/village set based on the show and it has a ton of parts and takes forever to put out but I love it!
I love to put out the children’s Christmas stockings. Seeing them hang on the mantel is wonderful!!
Although I love Christmas lights, I have a beautiful table runner with holly and ivy on it. It was hand-embroidered by a woman that is now-deceased and I think of her every year when I set it out.
Thanks for the contest Nichole and gang!
My favourite piece of holiday decor is two-fold. A stocking my mom made for me when i was really young, about 3 or 4. It’s satin and has a little applique of a mouse with this super cute patchwork nightcap on it. She also made a ceramic ornament that matches, the litle mouse sleeping on the crescent moon, with this cute multi-coloured quilt. I always hang it last on the tree.
My favorite is the Christmas tree. We go out to the forest with a group of friends for a marshmallow roast and tree hunt. Then when we set up the tree, it’s fun to put it together as a family and remember when we got each of the ornaments.
The advent calendar is the first holiday item to be put up every year. The daily anticipation helps my kids make it thru to Christmas Eve.
When I was very little we always traveled to Grandmother’s house in the country. She cooked and decorated and all the family came, but the one thing that I always looked for and loved the most was a very modest nativity set that she set out. It was well loved over the years so there were chips and glued-back- together pieces, but it didn’t matter, I loved it just as much. Many years later, I lovingly set up that same nativity set for my own little girl who seems to have the same awe as she gently unwraps each figurine and places it carefully in just the right spot as we tell each other the real Christmas story about baby Jesus.
Hanging our stockings on Christmas eve is still as magical to me now as a grandmother as when I was a young child.
Well, I don’t celebrate Christmas. So I don’t have any tree or stockings or any of holiday decoration in my house. Since its summer here in Australia, I always change the accessories in my house to summer colors from cushion covers to wall decor to curtains…Nice to lighten up the house with bright summer colors:)
I have so many things I love to decorate with at Christmas, but I must say without our little Nativity scene, it would not seem complete. We got it 34 years ago when we got married and it is as special today as it was then.
My Christmas tree is my favourite! I love it when you turn the lights on for the first time and see it all aglow!
My favorite thing would have to be the Christmas Tree! My mom gave me the decorations that were mine from when I was little and I love putting them on the tree now with my daughter! Christmas is so much more fun through her eyes!
My favorite Christmas decoration is an old, old decoration my Mom gave me that she always put out when we were growing up. The decoration was a Christmas mouse made out of styrofoam and dressed in felt. We called her Mrs. Mouse and Christmas decorations were not complete until we put Mrs. Mouse in front of the fireplace. I now put Mrs. Mouse in front of my fireplace each Christmas and she reminds me of the many happy Christmases of my childhood!
My favorite Christmas decor is the scrapbook I made of the kids each year sitting on Santa’s lap. It started with my oldest who is now 16, when she was a baby. I added her brother in the picture when he was born. Each year I would cart the two off to the mall for the traditional photo. A couple of years ago my dd got too old for santa. Truth be told I am surprised she did it for that long. I still have that imaged framed and the rest scrapbooked. Too cute! Years of memories!
I cross-stitched a Christmas-themed welcome right after my husband and I married 29 years ago. It has a lovely red frame. And every year I love hanging it up during the holidays.
I always look forward to setting out my nativity set with my 3 boys every year. They love to hear the story of Christmas and I love telling it to them. Every year before we pack it away, we always write the name of the child who will set baby Jesus in the manger onto a piece of paper and we pack it away. The anticipation of whose turn it is to do honors is so exciting!
I am in my 70’s with 5 grown children and every Christmas we have a special place for all the items the children made thru the years at Christmas time. They bring back many good memories and we all love looking at them and remembering all those years that have gone by so fast.
My favorite holiday decor; all my nativities. Especially my Fisher Price and Mt St Helen’s Ash ones. The Fischer Price one helps to remind me to be a kid at heart during the holiday season.
My favorite is the musical Santa Claus I received years ago from my grandma. He’s my favorite! Just makes me so happy every time…plus he sings my favorite Xmas tune perfectly! Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. 🙂
We have a few special ornaments that I love pulling out each year to put onto the tree.
I think my favorite piece of holiday decor is a pine garland with tiny white twinkling lights that I put up on my hutch in the family room. I decorate it with many small homemade ornaments that I just love to look at! Turn off all the other lights at night and it’s just magical!
Ooh, good question. I think for me it’s just a good old-fashioned pine wreath. I love the smell of it. Nothing says “holidays” to me more. With that answer, can you guess which stamp set I’m most excited about this release, too? 🙂
My favourite piece of holiday décor is my Willow Tree manger .I just bring the holidays alive!!!!
My favorite thing is a special Christmas tree ornament that “magically” turns the tree lights on and off! It’s a cute and unusual piece from my mother-in-law. It’s fun to see guest’s reactions to the lights working by themselves! 🙂
Great question! I have waaay too many holiday supplies, but my favorite is a set of tiny (about 1/2″ tall) hand carved wooden Santas that my husband bought before we were married. There are about 20 of them and we put them all over the living room in various places–on top of the clock, on the highest ridge of the entertainment center, peeking around corners, etc. Anyplace that is out of reach of the cats! Wait–scratch that–there is no place in this house that is out of reach of the cats…
Lights! Have to have them strung on the porch front and back. On an evergreen tree out front to welcome everyone that drives by. Everything looks so festive and dressed up from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day with lights along city streets and even in hills and mountains. There is something magical about them.
Our nativity set. My mother gave me the set she collected while all us children were living at home. It is a wonderful reminder of the reason for the season and wonderful holiday memories from my childhood.
I am grateful to have this Christmas tradition from my childhood to share with my family and to pass on for future generations to enjoy.
It is a wreath that I have made about 7 years ago. I used to have theme Christmas trees with handmade ornaments several years in a row. In a downsizing move, I just kept one or two from the different themes, and put them on the 36″ wreath. Lots of memories brought to mind as I see the various ornaments!
I have a nativity set that my husband made me the first year we met. I knew he was a “keeper” right from the beginning 🙂
My favorite piece of decoration to put out for Christmas is a teeny tiny plastic angel that my mom brought over with us from Germany in 1957. We are immagrants and I was only 5 years old and I remember that little angel and always thought it looked so tacky and cheap while I was in my teens. Now that I am almost 60 years old and my parents have downsized and moved into a retirement facility, I cherish this little scrappy angel and hopefully one day I will be able to hand it down to my daughter-in-law when my son marries.
Tree decorations – I love hanging the ornaments. I love to recall who gave me the ornament or if it’s a handmade; thinking of the person that made it. Some of my ornaments were bought on vacation – so I think back on what fun we had. I have picture ornaments of my boys when they were younger and one of my husband when he was a year and a half – it used to hang on his grandma’s tree – it’s one of my favorites!
I made cross stitch stocking the 1st yr we were married (22 yrs) and then for the boys. They are treasured items at Christmas. We also collect Swarovski Christmas ornaments which are all snowflakes.
That would be my daughters Christmas sock. My daughter was born on the 16th of December and she came home in a hand made Christmas stocking. It has been her stocking every year and she will be 19 this December. Oh my…did I just say 19..can’t be..haha. We were told we might not be able to have children because I am an ovarian cancer survivor. So she is a true gift.
I am a Snowman collector and I have 3 Jim Shore Snowmen that my husband and 2 sons gave me years ago. I adore these folky snowmen… I put them up first and put them away last!
I love Christmas and all of the decorations and transformations that come along with the holiday. However, hands down, my absolute favorite:
My great grandmother brought a full nativity set back from a trip to Jerusalem. I remember the thrill of helping put it out each year growing up and still feel the same tingle getting the box down now as an adult. My son (8) and daughter (7) love helping to put it out now.
I love having small white candles in each window that glow into the night to offer joy and hospitality! The light of the world came for each one of us. JOY TO THE WORLD!
My favorite piece was a huge ball of red poinsettias in a red metal vase.
My Terry Redlin Winter Village. I love his art work, and I don’t do other Christmas decorating.
I have an angel made out of a handkerchief. I took it from my mom’s huge collection when I left home 20 years ago. Its pretty “country” but I really love it and every year it sits proudly on the center speaker of our stereo system- I might not celebrate by decorating traditionally and over-the-top like my mom did, but that angel oversees it all, nonetheless. Thanks.
My favorite piece of holiday decor is our Advent Calendar. Many years ago, my mom made one out of wood, painted a tree on it, and screwed little hooks on next to all the numbers. She bought little mini ornaments which we hung on the hooks for each day. My brother and I got to take turns putting the ornaments up each day – I got odd days, he got even. Now that I have my own family, my mother made me an Advent Calendar just like the one we had growing up! Last year my two year old daughter loved picking out the ornaments each day. I love that I could pass down such an awesome tradition.
My ultimate, favorite decor items to decorate is my fireplace mantel. I have a wood mantel painted white so I love to lay a wide green pine bough with frosted crystals and snowflakes. I string icy star lights amongst the bough with crystal drop stones. Tucked in are the stocking hangers made of a heavy, smooth silver metal in the shape of reindeer and trees. The warm glow in the frosty setting makes me feel warm and happy!
That would be my Winnie The Pooh Menorah.
Definitely Stockings! My family looks forward to these every year and the goodies inside. These are the favorite part of Christmas morning.
I don’t have any traditions yet because I’ve been living a different place every year in college, but my favorite thing my mom puts out every year is our mantelpiece arrangement- complete with boughs of evergreens, our reindeer stocking holders, and our nativity set. This release is making me excited for Christmas!
Every year we put out our Snowman cookie jar. We got it the first Christmas we were married. It was our first official Christmas decoration as a couple!
The outdoor Christmas lights. I set them up on auto timers so that they are already on when we get home from work in the evening. It brings that little extra cheer to the season – not to mention it helps us forget about the dreary, rainy, wet winters we have here.
My favorite piece of decor is the wreath. That is why I am so excited to get your new wreath set! Thank you again for another wonderful month! You did an awesome job!
My favorite decoration to put out each year is a set of ornaments that I have with my brother and my names on them. They are over 30 years old!
It would have to be the very first Hallmark ornament I bought when DH and I were dating. I just “knew” he was going to be the one so I needed to start an ornament collection. It’s a tiny little angel and she is proudly displayed towards the top each year.
Our Christmas tree. My husband and I decorate the tree together and it is a traditon that I love and look forward to every year. Of course our cats are very helpful also.
This is embarrassing… it’s one of those GIANT inflatable characters that people put on their lawns. Mine is a turkey. It goes up for the week before thanksgiving. Comes down the day after. I love that guy!
Every year we set up a Dickens-style Christmas village, including carolers, snow-covered trees, a church, candy shop, an ice skating rink with moving skaters and many more holiday pieces! It’s relaxing to sit back and watch the lights flicker and imagine you are a part of the tiny town at Christmas time.
I have a very elaborate Neapolitan Nativity. It’s my favorite thing because it represents what Christmas is all about.
My favorite piece of holiday decor is my christmas tree. The holiday just wouldn’t seem complete without it. It reminds me of being a child myself and how much excitement the season always brought.
My snowmen collection on my baby grand piano!
I have a green ceramic tree that has little lights on it. I had one as a child at my grandmother’s house and it was lost in a move after she passed away. I was at a craft fair a few years ago and literally started crying in the woman’s booth when I saw them.
I put it out every year and it brings me back to my grandmother’s house at Christmas.
A manger set I bought at a craft show many years ago – made of corn husk – it is unique and beautiful.
It would have to be the ornaments my kids and grandkids have made with their pictures on them. God made the family and family is Christmas.
Without a doubt…it is my Christmas Village. It was handed down to me by my mother and always brings warm Christmas memories for me.
My absolute all time favorite is the icicle lights! Something about them just make me feel like a kid again. I put them on my balcony, across the tops of my drapes, around my entertainment unit, over my inspiration board and around my desk at work! And…I don’t take them down until my birthday (1/12) tee hee…
I have a ceramic Christmas Tree with those glass “lights” that fit in holes on the branches and are lit from within. It was my husband’s grandmother’s, and is both kitschy and classic. I love it!
I love my glass turkey collection! I can’t wait to put them out – it’s the official start of the season for me!
I made a “charlie brown” christmas tree out of wood, painted it and painted all of the little ornaments- i love it because I made it with a friend years ago and it is sooo cute -about 3 feet tall in a wooden box. MY 2nd thing would be the Willow Tree Manger Scene that i put in my entry way every year – love it! I always hate to put that back away!
Our favorite piece of holiday decor is the nativity set that my husbands Aunt gave to him when he left home. It is a hand made beautifully colored carved wood set that has so much sentimental value as well as brings out the true meaning of Christmas!
HI Nichole and everyone! That one is easy for me. I love putting out our Menorah! We have a very large one that once belonged to my great grandparents. Of course, we have several smaller ones too! I can’t believe we are talking about he holidays already. Happy Holiday season to all!
I would have to say my favorite(s) are all of the handmade ornaments which we put on our Christmas tree each year. There are some made of painted cornstarch clay from the first year my husband and I were married and on a tight budget since we were still in college. Then, more I made from wooden spools and scraps of trim and beads, walnut shell ornaments, some made from pine cones and those which I made from felt and decorated with embroidery, paper cast and beeswax cast ornaments. Most of all I treasure those made by my daughter in Sunday School when she was about three years old. Each one is precious and brings back so many good memories as we hang it on the tree every year. Now, my little grandsons love to help us decorate the tree. They, too, enjoy looking at each one and picking their favorites to hang on just the right branch.
I have two actually! The first is a gold metal candle holder. When you light the candles the heat rises and turns the angels and they “ding” the bells as they go ’round and ’round! It was my favorite as a child and a gift from my Mom. The next is a set of porcelein(?) faced angels whose dresses are covered with colored feathers. These were passed down from my Grandmother who clipped these to her plastic tree each year. I don’t know how old these decorations are, but they are truly worth a mint to me!!
Every year I put a delicate wooden ornament on the top of our tree. It is a mother deer with her fawn..very sweet and 70ish….my Mom bought it the year I was born. I remeber it as a kid and as an adult I always pack and unpack it carefully each year and remember fond Christmas memories.
I love snowmen and have such a huge collection that I change the little fellas up every year. The one thing that I put out each and every year is my Nativity set…….just a reminder of the true spirit and meaning of Christmas
My favorite is a snowman that is sitting a patch of ice and is ice fishing. It was given to me by my father the Christmas before he passed away. I actually leave it out all year long.
Thank you for such an amazing giveaway!
i love the nativity set my mother made and painted when we were children….it was as beautiful then as it is today.
My favorite holiday item for Christmas is my tree. It has both multi-colored and white lights, and I have an enormous collection of the Hallmark Disney ornaments that I started collecting when my oldest son was a year old. He is now 21, and so far each year we have all gathered together as a family to decorate the tree. He has just moved into his first apartment (sniff) and I am hoping he will still come and help decorate the tree! *fingers crossed*
I put up two trees every year – one with glass collectible ornaments and the other, my favorite, is the tree the holds all the ornaments my two children,(ages 23 & 24), made while growing up. Also hanging on this tree are Hallmark ornaments they picked out each year. They always went for the movement ornaments, so the tree is quite noisy with all the little motors going. Now that they’re grown and not home so much anymore, that noisy, paper ornament filled tree is priceless. LOVE IT!
My favourite thing is the Christmas tree. I love it’s pretty lights and sparkly decorations.
My tree top angel is my favorite decoration. Makes me smile when I look at her.
Our nativity set is first out and last to be put away every year, because that is what Christmas is all about.
I guess my favorite would be lights – lights (lots of them) on the main tree, lighted garland on the stairs and loft railing and above the fireplace, lighted wreaths in the windows, lights on the porch columns, lights above the kitchen cabinets and on the screen porch. I love holiday lights!
My favorite piece is our nativity scene. It’s so beautiful in old world colors. It’s not really that valuable in dollars as we purchased it at Sam’s Club for $30. But it was one of the first holiday items my husband and I purchased together as husband and wife. I cherish it for that reason as well as it’s symbolism.
the tree ornaments that were mine as a child, some are very 70s looking and my children do not understand their appeal 🙂
My boyfriend is in airframe design, getting his master’s in aerospace engineering, so every year, I hang airplane ornaments that I’ve collected. A lot of them are very shiny and sparkle in amongst the Christmas lights!
Even though my decor theme changes each year, we always set out our family stockings that I found one year at Target on clearance – they are monogrammed initialed for each of our first names and color coordinated for our favorite colors…my son loves the stockings as our tradition 🙂
The funky little, bright colored, pieced felt “santa slippers” that Mom used to put in front of the cardboard Christmas fireplace that she set up every yr in our living room. So many good Christmas morning memories … .
Well…we just moved into our first home last fall, so there isn’t an “every year” piece yet. I’d have to say, though, that the wreath I created for the fireplace is lovely and I cannot wait to put it up again. Our home is pretty neutral, but the wreath has a little bling so it’s fun!
We have a gorgeous knitted “Christmas Tree Guard” named Barnaby that was given to me by my favourite Aunt about 20 years ago. He is covered in Christmas icons – trees, holly, presents, 5 gold rings etc. I just LOVE him. He stands next to our tree and ‘guards’ the presents. Christmas just isn’t Christmas without Barnaby!
The nativity scenes I place around our house are the most important pieces of decor because the birth of the Christ Child is why we have Christmas, and I want my family to be constantly reminded of God’s love for us during the hustle and bustle of the season. Thanks for the chance to win!!
My favorite is the olive wood nativity set I bought on a trip to Israel. I love it because it came from a place with such historic and religious meaning. It is a reminder of why we celebrate the holiday.
My menorah that is made in Israel.
I love Christmas lights on the house and the lights on the tree. Its what sets the mood for me.
My wonderful in-laws gave us a beautiful bird in a birds nest several years ago (before kids) to place in our christmas tree each year. Its a german tradition and is supposed to bring you luck in the new year. Now that we have kids, we like to share that story with them as to why we put a birds nest in our christmas tree. we feel so lucky and blessed to share that memory with our children each year.
I love putting all of the ornaments on the tree. Each ornament has its own memory or something special related to it. Some were handmade by grandparents no longer here with us. Some were made by the kids throughout the years. Some were given to us and some were bought by us. It’s fun to remember where we got each one as we put them on the tree – lots of happy memories.
Christmas lights! Love untangling them, hanging them and seeing lights from my window all season! 🙂
My favorite holiday decoration is a handwritten “plan” to catch Santa putting gifts under the tree, written by my son when he was a little boy. It is a treasure I found in his room and I secretly stashed it away until he was an adult. I proudly share it out in the open for all visitors to read. When his little girl is old enough to read, she will enjoy the “scene” he plays out in his grade school handwriting. It’s a joy to display this every year and think of the wonder he had of Santa as he very carefully and secretly wrote the plan when he and my daughter camped out in their sleeping bags under the Christmas tree that year.
One constant for us is the Trip to Bethlehem advent calendar. It was my husband’s as a child and his mother had it copied and redone for us so my children have grown up with it as well. We rotate who gets to start so they each get a turn reading the Christmas Eve entry….
I have my Grandfathers clear plastic tree that you put together I would guess it is 7″ or 8″ high,I hang teeny tiny balls on, I have collected vintage ones to add to what I “inherited” from my mom. You see my mother and grandfather are long gone so it always comes out and reminds me of my childhood. I love that little tree like no other.
it would have to be the book that my now 12 yr old daughter made when she was in 2nd grade. it is ‘the night before christmas’ hand made out of construction paper. she wrote every word. she drew every scene. it has cotton balls and small candy and tons of glitter glued on the pages. her teacher said that she started the class in early october so it would be finished by christmas! it is so beautiful and i tear up every year when i see it.
I have so many…but there is one that brings a tear to my eye every year…it is a handmade wreath ornament that a customer made for me when I was a teller several years ago…she was an elderly lady, and came in to the bank that day, just to bring me the gift she had made, and as she was leaving the bank, she was struck by a car and passed away. I know that this is so sad…but I can’t help but think of her every year when I see this wonderful handmade gift from an angel.
Our Christmas tree! We have collected ornaments from every trip/vacation that we have taken through the years, as well as added all the hand made ornaments by each of us and family and friends. When we sit near it at night with the twinkly lights on and all the memories for us to savor, it just feels so good!
I love our stockings! They match our tree skirt. They are really simple and classic and set the mood for the holiday season!
My Santa Claus collection, for sure. I remember when and where I got every Santa from. I love them all, whether they are worth a lot of money or one my kids see in the dollar store and purchase it for mr.
My Christmas candles. They smell and look beautiful. I also love playing my Bing Crosby White Christmas CD. Blissful!
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I have a menorah that my grandmother gave me when I left for college so that I’d have one to light when I was away from home. Seeing it brings back lots of fond memories of her.
I love putting all my ornaments on the tree each year. I have so many that were given to me by family and friends. It takes hours because I have each one separately wrapped with the name of the giver and the year I received it ~ so many wonderful memories!
One of my favorites is the “Christmas People” which is what my youngest son called our Nativity set! We still call it that even though my son is now almost 15!
When I hang the brass bells, still on their beautiful old ribbon, in the living room doorway, I know that Christmastime has arrived. They’re the first thing out of the boxes! My mother hung them in her house every year that I can remember, and not a person would go by without giving them a jingle. That sound, in my house now, reminds me of her and the beautiful traditions she started in my family, and is such a joyful noise to all of us!
Nativity set because that’s the meaning of Christmas.
I started collecting Swarovski crystal christmas tree ornaments for my husband and my first Christmas together. I love bringing home the new one each year and adding it to the ones already on the tree. It’s a great way of celebrating our lives together each Christmas. The trick now is to keep my 3 1/2 and 2 year old from wanting to see if they can pull them down and look/play with them. But even a broken one will bring us memories the following years.
Well, I live at home with my parents but every year I just loveeeee making our home look OH soooo CHristmasssssy ! My favorite thing so far was last year when I went crazy and hung snowflakes all around the house hanging from the ceiling, because I was wishing it would snow in FL. It kinda worked lol we got fluriess one night it was AMAZING!!
I love each of my Christmas tree ornaments – the ones my husband has bought me over the years, all the handmade ones from my boys, one teeny, chipped little red ball that my dad & I would hang together each year. Even though I can’t possibly fit them all on each year, they bring back such great memories as I sort through them, trying to decide which will make it onto our tree.
My favorite piece of holiday decor is my advent calendar. I just love how festive it is!
oh gosh, my old latchhook Santa stocking. I have had that since I was 6 years old. Still hang it every year, and always enjoy opening the presents in there after the presents under the tree.
My olive tree Nativity set my brother brought back from Jerusalem. I love it because its from the Holy Land, it depicts one of the most important events on this earth and it is a constant reminder of my Savior and also my sweet brother who brought it to me. I love it with all my heart!
Oh that’s tough. I have 2. The wooden Advent calendar, my kids love putting together the nativity scene with all the magnetic pieces, and the ornaments. My daughter is a great help asking about each ornament, “When and where did we get this one Mom?”. One of those traditions I treasure.
A big stuffed hippo.
*Sings* We have a hippopotomous for Christmas..
My daughter and I have had an ongoing gag every Christmas since we discovered that song together.
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I love decorating my tree! As a child my grandparents would give me an ornament each year. They were always different, some vintage, some modern, some trendy, some just different! My favorites are a glittery strawberry, and a stick horse. My husband and I have carried on this tradition with our children. Our tree is an eclectic collage of colors and textures, and I love it!
OK…my favorite would have to be a collection rather than 1 item. I sort of “collect” Christmas trees of all sizes and made out of all different sorts of materials. I have about 30 trees, and I love putting them out each year.
Our favorite thing to put out at Christmas is our tree. I love the joy and delight my sons ( ages 9 and 7) express each time we put it up and pull out all the ornaments. It’s like opening a whole lot of little presents for them to rediscover the ornaments. I love watching them put them in just the “right” places and how they love the star on top that lights up. We also like out nativity we put out too. It was a yearly gift to me as I was growing up from my precious Godparents.
I have two favorite things that I always place on our tree – a wooden bird ornament beautifully painted with a flower on its belly (my favorite ornament) and the small colored paper lanterns that I randomly put over the white lights on the tree. It adds the final touch to our tree and I am always in awe how beautiful the tree is with them.
My absolute favorite item is a handmade Polish Nativity set given to our family while we were living in Germany. Our neighbors, a Chaplain and his family, surprised us with it right before Christmas. It became even more meaningful when they told us Polish women make and sell them to help support their families. It will always be a treasure!
I love the holidays…my favorite is my mitten tree. This is a tree of mittens I have given my grandkids each year, and then I retrieve them at the end of winter. We have some pairs and some singles, but so fun to stop and remember when… There are 9 grandkids, so a huge variety.
Ok, this might sound like a non-original idea but I love to put up the Christmas tree and the reason is on our tree is an ornament that represents the places we have visited and the things my kids were into that year. For example my now 12 yr old daughter got braces on last yr. so her ornament for 2009 was a smiling brace face girl. It is just so cute to see their faces as they take out “their” ornaments and they remember why they chose that one and they get to put it up. Every year I put their initials on it and the year so we don’t forget. Then on their wedding day I will bravely box them all up and give it to them to share with their new life. (That part I’m not ready for yet, but right now that is the plan)
It is an wooden snowman that my friend made me it is about 3 feet tall and is very early American looking. Love the look and love the one who gave it to me!