It is an ingenious design. It consists of a metal stand that folds, two wooden poles studded with holes, and many aluminum tinsel "branches" that stick into the holes. It takes about 3 minutes to erect.
On this silver tree, we place all our sentimentally significant ornaments. Many were hand made by the kids when they were little, or were given to them by relatives and friends. This is their favorite ornament, some kind of creature-a cat?- that moves as you pull its string. It was given to them by Mike's parents.
This star was made by me and the kids one night when we pulled out the tree, and didn't have a topper. We cut out the star from cardboard and covered it with aluminum foil.
This tree holds many things special to us. I won't show you everything because that would probably be boring to anyone but me. Everything has a story, a place on the tree and in our hearts.
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My grandparents had the exact same tree but they use to decorate with blue Christmas balls. Oh, thank you for the wonderful trip down memory lane.
Blue is my favorite color to go with the tree. I always use blue wrapping paper. Hope you all are doing well!
Christmas traditions really are about family and what is special to us,aren't they? I do remember people I know having aluminum trees but our families, from the Pacific Northwest and Southern Oregon always had an abundance of evergreen trees, so that is what we had. But your star, well, my father made our aluminum star for the tree I remember as a child and for many years that was the tree topper for my family. THAT brought many fond memories to me, thank-you!
Does it surprise you sometimes what your children consider the most precious items?
I think its very pretty. I love looking at all the ornaments that mean so much to us.
We used evergreen trees at home when I was little. Of course, we always picked out the largest one possible. Before I inherited the aluminum tree, we did the same here. After Christmas, we would throw it into a burn pile for a bonfire later. But, we had a problem with my daughter. She was known to go and get the dried, old tree and drag it back into the yard! That was her Christmas tree. So I started proping it against the fence and decorating it with pinecones covered with peanut butter and bird seeds. It became the January tree.
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