Comments on: Christmas Baubles

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 23:22:32 +0000

Wonderful memories.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 17:06:42 +0000

Merry Christmas Gentle Author,
These beautiful decorations are lovely and I too have a few similar ones which my grandmother managed to bring when she was required to come to Canada with her three tiny daughters in 1918 after she lost her husband in WWI. She arrived in a tiny ice cold town on the prairies and made a life there. Thus, I was born in Canada rather than England. I cherish each Christmas these beautiful fragile glass bobbles and think of England and all her struggles over the century.
Thank you for sharing these as it gives me so much pleasure.
Jane Heavyside

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 23:11:15 +0000

Happy Christmas, Gentle Author, and thank you for helping us all through this terrible year.

By: Pamela Traves

Pamela Traves — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 21:34:57 +0000

I Love All of these Vintage Christmas Tree Bobbles!! I had several on our Christmas Tree 60 years ago when I was five!!!?????????

By: Sue Richards

Sue Richards — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:59:00 +0000

Love the fact you’ve still got your first bicycle!

By: Jo Ross

Jo Ross — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:52:08 +0000

Thankyou GA for this lovely blog. Sadly, I have no heirloom decorations so reading of yours was a joy. The wee bike added an extra poignancy.

I’m off now to re-read your wonderful piece from last Christmas describing your pantomime years. I raise a glass of gin and tonic to you and wish you a very happy Christmas.

By: Suzanne Shelton

Suzanne Shelton — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:47:25 +0000

Dear Gentle Author,

Christmas greetings from Chicago.

I have many similar decorations inherited from my grandparents, as well as those acquired through the years that carry with them specific, treasured memories. Among my favorites is one shaped as a pocket watch, bought in 1999, with the words “welcome the new millennium!” printed on its face. It’s encrusted in glitter, but I have always seen it as it will appear to my children’s children’s children when I’m long gone and the glitter has worn off. Perhaps it will welcome in the next new millennium.

I don’t comment often, but enjoy your photos and stories very much. Thank you for enhancing my life.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:39:42 +0000

Dear GA thank you for such a beautiful and evocative post and how lovely that you follow the old tradition of decorating your tree on Christmas Eve. The old tree decorations are wonderful and prompt many memories of loved ones now passed.
I know Christmas has really arrived when we put our angel, Gladys Christmas, on the top of the tree each year. She is now held together with glue and sticky tape, her wings are droopy but she has been part of ours and our children’s Christmas for over forty years. Many of our decorations go back to my childhood.
A very happy Christmas to you, Schrodinger and all readers wherever you are in the world. May you all stay safe and well and have a much better 2021.

By: Ann V

Ann V — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:00:34 +0000

Thank you for the beautiful Christmas blog. It took me back over 60 years when Dad used to decorate the Christmas tree. We didn’t have much money so among the tree decorations were pine cones that Dad painted in different colours. I still have two little plastic bells which I put on the Christmas tree every year that are well over 60 years old. I also have a Father Christmas made of papier-mache. He is very much treasured. I hope you GA and all your followers have a Happy Christmas, and let’s hope 2021 is a happier year than 2020.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 18:45:03 +0000

l love the sentiment you have for your grandmother’s and mother’s Christmas treasures of which we had similar in those ‘egg’ boxes stashed in the attic a year at a time.

Getting them down was such excitement and finding those figurines we had forgotten and giving them a kiss to welcome them back from their long sleep.
Nothing since has looked as good or as curious as those made in Germany.

l too have a tradition of an outside tree and magical lighting inside and out, and a beautiful theme of wonderment every year, despite not having children.

Very pleased to say my creativity last year very much inspired some of my “baubleless” neighbours, and this year almost all the gardens along my row are also festooned with an aura of sparkling magic.

l heard a lovely refrain from an elderly artist who says:
“Be blessed and be a blessing to someone every day.”

And that is what the GA is to many of us. Good tidings to all.