So, my roommate was adventurous and went and chopped down a Christmas tree for us. Someone said it's a Charlie Brown tree, but I love it and am perfectly endeared to it.
Now, we're trying to decorate it without resorting to buying pre-made silly commercial stuff.
So far, it sports:
a star on top made of index cards and gold paint
13 paper cranes
a Chinese medallion I got for a dollar
4 paper snowflakes
2 pass-along cards for the Nativity video (Mormon missionary propaganda)
a Trogdor the Burninator I made out of cardstock and cut out. (Check out all his majesty!)
a little crystal angel ornament my roommate got at Disneyworld
a plastic rooster keychain
a keychain from the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota
a little plastic St. Michael figurine I got at Goodwill
a wooden mountainclimber from Switzerland who really climbs his string
I think this tree has the capability of becoming a truly postmoderm masterpiece. Let's make it an interactive adventure. Please contribute whatever you've got to my tree. Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
You can have my Harry Potter ornaments. I don't want a tree, but you are welcome to use them for the season. Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
For such a magnificent tree, I'll lend you my five-inch-tall plush The Brain keychain (like, from Pinky and the Brain).
Posted by Christy (Member # 4397) on :
My mom used to hand make little felt stockings that you could slip a mini candy cane into that were really cute.
She also had from her grandmother a walnut shell that someone had added a little fuzz-ball mouse and blanket to cover him up in his little bed.
You can make ornaments out of play doh or clay. How about gingerbread men?
*should go home and decorate her own tree, but hopes Annie and roommates are enjoying theirs*
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
cool! This is going to be a great tree!
*hangs up Harry Potter and the brain*
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
quote:13 paper cranes
987 more and you'll have some really good luck.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Hang an AOL disc up there. They are shiney, useless, and will make you think of me; exactly like an ornament.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Man, I would hate to waste a perfectly good AOL disk like that. Every time I looked at it, I would say, "Oh man, that's 20,000 free hours I could be using right now!"
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Best use for AOL discs: microwave on high for three seconds.
Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :
Gum wrappers could surely contribute to some sort of shiny ornament. Everyone likes shiny stuff.
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
Take applesauce and add cinnamon until it's the consistency of clay. Then cut out shapes just like cookie dough and add a little hole for a ribbon to hang it. Lay it out somewhere to dry for a day (or stick it in the oven) turn them over to make sure they dry flat. They look really nice in a pioneer kinda way and they smell really good!
oh btw, that's a really good idea using passalong cards as ornaments!
[ December 11, 2003, 06:31 PM: Message edited by: sarcasticmuppet ]
Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
Two years ago my roommates and I decorated our tree with a bunch of magnets we took from their boyfriends' residential college. They had all the important phone numbers one would need to know if one lived at Jones College.
You can have some of those. Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote: add cinnamon
That's a lot of cinnamon!
You can have this little silver 'Computer Bug 2000' insect clip thing I have. It would clip very nicely onto the tree... it would be like those baubles you can buy with the date on, reminding you of the past...
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
1/2 cup applesauce 1/2 cup cinnamon (buy it at the dollar store, you should be able to get 2 cans for 1 dollar) 2 squirts of glue
mix in a ziploc bag roll out very thin (use cinnamon to keep dough from sticking), cut with cookie cutters and poke hole in top with straw. You can sprinkle sugar on them to make them sparkle allow to dry for 3-4 days string with satin ribbons and hang on tree.
I'll give you the 157 cinnamon ornaments that my class made today for your tree.
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
We also used pumpkin pie spice- it has cinnamnon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice and more yummy spices and it smells VERY good!
[ December 11, 2003, 09:43 PM: Message edited by: Coccinelle ]
Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
i shall donate two very special ornaments. the first, is my tiny clear sugar plum fairy ballerina that is far far away in a box in my old house in virginia. at least i hope it is there, i just remembered not being able to find it after last christmas.
the second is my first ornament, which i broke the same year it was given to me. i was four years old and my mother bought me a gorgeous pink frosted glass heart with a white polkadots and a white ribbon. it was bigger than my hand, but so delicate. it shattered into a thousand pieces against our hardwood floors.
there you are, two special ornaments from christmas ornament heaven.
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