was it passed down to you and dose it bring back memorys ?
2006-12-14 02:19:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
She's called Matilda... and she's my Christmas Fairy... who topped every tree I've ever owned, every year, since 1970.
She travelled with me through so many homes due to husbands' careers... two marriages... and because life with them was seriously unsettled, she makes me feel at home every time I unwrap her.
I bought her for my fifth child's first Christmas, she's now 37 years of age.
I took a picture of the same child, gazing up at her with wonder on her face age 5 years... and I wrote a story about her for my children, and as a volunteer story teller at their school in the seventies, attending two classes each week, I've told the story to many children, a very simple story. Along with many others, that I ad libbed to them all, then wrote down.
Matilda has had half a dozen new dresses in her life, all made of crepe, either white or as now, pink... and her wings have been recut from gold and silver card many times over too. She has a silver plastic wand and it is urgently in need of a respray of silver paint. But I haven't got the heart to change her now, because she deserves to grow old gracefully.
She's the only fairy I've ever seen who is a tiny doll, with legs and feet. I don't think they make them anymore, She's solid plastic, worthless in monetary terms, but priceless to me.
She reminds me of so many Christmasses and "Oo's and aah's' every year she was unwrapped... and place on top of the tree.
She tatty... tired (a bit like me at 61) and she's graced the many five foot trees, real or otherwise, inside my six children's live's and throughout my youngest son's 23 Christmasses, and he still insists she comes out every year and sits inside the top branches of the three foot fibre optic tree, that I've used across the past three years. I suggested not bothering this year... he demanded otherwise.
She's four inches tall and I love her to bits, because she is my children's childhood relived:-)
2006-12-14 02:44:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the oldest i have is a christmas dumbo decoration for the tree, hes been passed down since the late 30's and always sits on the tree looking out the window 1/3 of the way down
2006-12-14 02:43:02 · answer #2 · answered by thunderchild67 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a bell that screws into the bulb socket of the old style Christmas tree lights(1930 to 1950) that when plugged in, it rings. The one I have, I got at a tag sale,but in the 50's we had one. My father bought it at a auction in savin rock amusement park which isn't there any more. Neither is my parents. Yeah I would say that brings back memories.
2006-12-14 03:32:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the angel who sits on the top of my christmas tree every year was purchased by my mother in 1955. yes she is a little cheesey compared with today's decorations,and since my folks were very young & broke at the time I am sure she was purchased for nest to nothing. Yet every person in our spread out family adores her, I am just the lucky one who has her for now
2006-12-14 19:02:58 · answer #4 · answered by Rowdyred 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a bunch of glass ornaments that were passed to me from my Grandparents and my Great Aunt. They're pretty old -- from the 30's and 40's. I hang them up on the highest branches of the tree and pack them away very carefully.
2006-12-14 04:26:53 · answer #5 · answered by retropink 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An angel that sits on top of our tree, and watches over our Christmas. We bought her many years ago.
We moved this past summer, and our angel is still packed away somewhere. We don't have anything on top of the tree this year. I miss her.
2006-12-14 04:23:10 · answer #6 · answered by kiwi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I made small xmas crackers at primary school 21 years ago.
I saw mum had put them on her xmas tree again this year.
My mum also has glass baubles that are about 27 years old (maybe more). She keeps them in a box though.
2006-12-14 05:34:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a wee one my son made for me at playschool 22 years ago, made from polystyrene egg box and tinsel, it goes on the back of the tree nowadays ,but it has to go on .I couldnt leave it out
2006-12-14 02:31:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the Christmas dolls that i gave to my daughter. memories, when the kids were here younger Christmas morning
2006-12-14 02:43:18 · answer #9 · answered by robert c 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We have a snowman that my husband's gran knitted in the 1950s.
It's really sweet, and it's nice for the kids to have something of hers as they never met her.
2006-12-14 02:26:19 · answer #10 · answered by mcfifi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋