Comments on: Christmas Baubles

By: Stella

Stella — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:27:19 +0000

Your baubles are wonderful Gentle Author. I too have baubles that I love and cherish. Also a beautiful bird that I splashed out on one year from Harrods, I can’t remember what it cost but I do remember feeling very extravagant spending so much (it must have been something like £2)
but I love it and he’s always perched near the top of my tree every year.

By: Lizebeth

Lizebeth — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 15:48:48 +0000

I join with the other comments here in wishing you and yours a very happy Christmas and a peaceful new year. I, too, have a few ornaments from my childhood (I’m now aged 75). Don’t know how they have survived. Or me, come to think of it. I remember going out in New York City every Christmas Eve to buy our tree, which would be discounted by then, and adorning it with glass baubles while sipping hot chocolate. We then kept it well into the new year, and carefully packed its treasures away in cotton to await the next year’s tree.

It is lovely to share these stories and memories with you and your readers.

By: Suzy

Suzy — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 11:11:16 +0000

Oh I can’t begin to express how much this post sings to my heart! I’m now 44 and have never experienced the joy of decorating a Christmas Tree on account of a religion I was born into. Now out of the organization I was in, I find myself suddenly fascinated by the art of decorating a tree. I study xmas trees everywhere and I’ve started a Pinterest board entitled, Vintage Christmas Tree because I plan to - hopefully next year - have a beautiful tree and it’s these kinds of decorations that lighten my heart. I’m not sure my first attempt will be Artful but I know it will be eclectic and FUN and colourful and full of joy. :o) The joy of having several generations worth of baubles must be just wonderful! Happy Christmas Mr TGA. ??

By: Patty Johnson

Patty Johnson — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 07:20:17 +0000

I love them. I have some that I bought in the 1980s, but none from my childhood tree.

By: Sue

Sue — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:44:31 +0000

I remember so many of those glass baubles.
I loved the birds with the glass fibre tails that we had for years as children. By the time Mum lived with us they had disappeared.

By: Bailey Jones

Bailey Jones — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 19:31:34 +0000

These fragile baubles remind me of childhood Christmases some good, some not so good. My mother’s baubles have long gone and most of mine are now indestructible or wooden. I do have one glass bauble, which was a present from a former colleague, whose Cornish friend made it.

My favourites from our present, quite modern, collection are a couple of crocheted stars in white lace, a gift from America, which I have had for 23 years and a plaster snow man my son made around 30 years ago, which we put at the foot of the tree. Memories are so important.

Wishing you and Schrödinger a wonderful Christmas, cozy and warm with bracing walks and a tipple in your favourite local. Thank you for sharing your East End life in one of the world’s most wonderful cities.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 16:35:18 +0000

Sadly, my own collection was lost because of a burst pipe flood at my house in Essex 20 years ago. I’m now collecting hand made baubles in Basel, souvenirs for when we retire and move back to Scotland. This year I’m going to buy one in the shape of an old tram. A gentleman who owns a hand made bauble shop oversees the decoration of the main trees in the city, they are very beautiful to see, especially inside the town hall courtyard and by the cathedral.

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 16:30:07 +0000

So wonderful to pull out beloved Christmas ornaments each year, and have them remind us of the good times of previous Christmas family celebrations. Happy Christmas to you, Gentle Author, and many thanks for another year of posts sharing your community and friendship with us all.

By: Christine Dalton

Christine Dalton — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 15:00:05 +0000

Thank you for sharing your baubles and memories x

By: achim

achim — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 14:40:00 +0000

*** FROHE WEIHNACHTEN! ***
*** MERRY CHRISTMAS! ***
*** JOYEUX NOËL! ***
*** ЩАСЛИВОГО РІЗДВА! ***

Love & Peace
ACHIM