Don't remember the exact year that the tradition of getting an ornament per year began, but think it was in the late 80s. As this isn't a year for a lovely 6' fresh tree, there is only a sampling of baubles and memories out for this season. Maybe, if I'm feeling ambitious, I shall rotate my collection so that they all get a chance to see an Austin Christmas.
From the Monterey Bay Aquarium, 2002. That is one gorgeous stretch of real estate.
Carnegie Hall, 2007~purchased during our Beethoven/Mahler rehearsals.
This one isn't an ornament per se, just a reminder of how GRATEFUL I am that I am not working retail anymore. Lindt Chocolate, Princeton, 2008.
Scandinavian glass heart from San Fransisco, circa 1990.
Peanut reindeer heads made by my siblings~still one of my favorite (almost earless) ornaments. 1990s.
This year's ornament~the Alamo. 2013. (Yes, I realize that this is a bizarre choice for a season of peace/joy, but it's where I traveled first this year.)
The cheesy tourist one, Liberty/Ellis Island. 2008
Gorgeous glass drop, Lincoln City~probably late 90s.
A student found these brass notes at a rummage sale and polished them all for me~normally, I am not a fan of music motif things, but these are lovely. Tracy, 1998.
From one of my bosses at Mondavi~she said that I did things with grace and elegance and this ornament reminded her of me. Sweet words. Napa Valley, 2001.
Last year's wooden stars from New Orleans! 2012
From Seaside, 2010.
I never got into actual ornaments; last year we went up to Church Mouse and bought a few to hang over the window... and I have glass icicles my friend Jackie gave me, and then I have the little clay balls I made and painted the first year I was married, that we put on a little Charlie Brown tree and they were SO HEAVY the branches all bowed down. So funny. But, that's it for ornaments. I should go back to the thrift store...
ReplyDeleteI love how this has morphed into a memory tree. And yes, I can only hang a couple of the brass notes or the fake tree falls over.
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