Comments on: My Old Christmas Decorations https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/13/my-old-christmas-decorations/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:20:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/13/my-old-christmas-decorations/#comment-1532000 Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:20:24 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198470#comment-1532000 There is a Christmas decoration shop in Basel that sells handmade glass baubles. The owner oversees decorating the huge tree in the cathedral square every year, it’s always very beautiful.

]]> By: John Masters https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/13/my-old-christmas-decorations/#comment-1531969 Thu, 14 Dec 2023 08:34:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198470#comment-1531969 These lovely glass ornaments are still being made in northern Bavaria. We began stocking them in our Berlin shop a couple of years ago and are happy to see how appreciated they are, especially by younger people.

Merry Christmas and frohe Weihnachten from Berlin

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/13/my-old-christmas-decorations/#comment-1531855 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:07:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198470#comment-1531855 *** MERRY CHRISTMAS! ***
*** FROHE WEIHNACHTEN! ***
*** JOYEUX NOËL! ***

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Christine Swan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/13/my-old-christmas-decorations/#comment-1531822 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:57:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198470#comment-1531822 Your collection is a fine one. Unfortunately, my cats are far too curious so I don’t put any cherished glass pieces on the Christmas tree. Consequently, fabric decorations, pine cones and the inevitable plastic replicas festoon my tree. The cats get to climb, pull or knock over the tree and nothing is broken. Every year, when I bring up the decorations from the cellar, I look through the boxes and select this year’s pieces. I also have delicate glass from the 1950s and I keep a few Christmas card. Those from people now passed always bring tears. The season and the closing of the year brings mixed emotions.

]]> By: Ron https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/13/my-old-christmas-decorations/#comment-1531821 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:50:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198470#comment-1531821 Greetings from Canada.
Some of these decorations were in our Grandmother’s and subsequently our parent’s collection.
Was always magical to open those carboard trays, hoping that they had survived their long hibernation.
Thank you for your daily inspirations.
Happy Christmas to all.
rk

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/13/my-old-christmas-decorations/#comment-1531816 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 12:58:39 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198470#comment-1531816 We are so fortunate to be able to visit your treasured collection…… and hear the stories about
each ornament. I set up our little tabletop nativity scene yesterday. Like your bicycle, this group of figures and the small wooden stable, are from my childhood. As I unwrapped one of the Three Kings, I turned over the figure and saw a price imprint —- thirty-nine cents. With this memory I was transported to the Murphy’s dime store in my little hometown, and I stood peering down into bins of nativity figures. Camels, sheep, shepherds, Kings, angels, etc. My allowance money at the ready in a plastic change purse, I contemplate which figure I will add to the scene. I decide on a dog, who will accompany a young shepherd. Fast forward to 2023, and the whole cast of characters is now on display amidst a forest of bottle brush trees, illuminated by white column candles. Beautiful nostalgia. Thank you GA for shining a holiday light!

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/13/my-old-christmas-decorations/#comment-1531804 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:34:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198470#comment-1531804 These are beautiful, you are so lucky to have this collection. I collected tree decorations from 1984 onwards, sadly lost what I had built up when my house was flooded by a burst pipe in the attic back in 2001.

I have since amassed another collection, some are traditionally Swiss or particular to customs in Basel, others have been collected from other places. I bought some beautiful hand made glass ones and some hand beaten brass ones at the weekend in Copenhagen. The brass ones are of oak leaves, birds and stars.

]]> By: Christa https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/13/my-old-christmas-decorations/#comment-1531791 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:38:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198470#comment-1531791 Lucky you. I know that happy feeling – when I open my Christmas box every year and see the few Old treasures come to me through the family. Happy Christmas time!
Christa

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/13/my-old-christmas-decorations/#comment-1531772 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 08:40:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198470#comment-1531772 Having spent a lot of the summer clearing out the family home following my Mum’s death I have also inherited all the ‘old friend’ Christmas decorations which will be going onto my tree, and which will bring back many happy memories.

Have a lovely Christmas xx

]]> By: Arabella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/13/my-old-christmas-decorations/#comment-1531769 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 08:22:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198470#comment-1531769 I too love my Christmas decorations and have been collecting them for many years now. I was delighted on my last outing to Columbia road market to discover a shop selling decorations from the places in Germany you mention. Perhaps you know it.

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