I do not know the place this Christmas tree ornament got here from however it’s outdated – they definitely do not make them like this anymore – it is precisely the identical as these we had on the tree once I was a bit of lady.
I am certain it did not come from the time we cleared Dad’s home – appears to have appeared extra not too long ago.
Again within the late 50’s and 60’s there weren’t so many locations to purchase Christmas decorations – it was primarily Woolworths or the massive shops which we did not have in small cities. Yearly we’d make these paper chains that loop one strip by way of one other. They went from corners of the rooms to the sunshine becoming within the center. Then out would come the concertina/honeycomb paper decorations – a bell, a star and a few spherical balls. They needed to be clipped along with a paper clip to carry them open and folded very rigorously on twelfth night time. And there have been at all times balloons.
We had a giant beam throughout the center of the room and as extra issues grew to become accessible Mum collected some small sprays of synthetic holly and silver leaves and comparable bits and would pin them alongside the beam on both sides.
We at all times had an actual Christmas tree which might begin shedding needles virtually as quickly because it was introduced in – shoved in a bucket of builders sand – at all times loads of that in a builders yard. Mum had some very outdated tree decorations together with clips that might maintain correct birthday candles – though we by no means had them alight. There was at all times an issue with the lights – multi coloured- with bulbs that screwed in and needed to be checked one after the other yearly to seek out out which one had failed.
I can keep in mind how naked the room seemed when the decorations got here down however I anticipate Mum was glad to get them out of the best way – she hated mud and outdated homes with wooden beams and open fires produced loads of that and as soon as all the pieces was put away she may get the the duster and polish out once more.
