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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. Posts: 8504 | Registered: Aug 1999
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You can have my Harry Potter ornaments. I don't want a tree, but you are welcome to use them for the season. Posts: 26077 | Registered: Mar 2000
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For such a magnificent tree, I'll lend you my five-inch-tall plush The Brain keychain (like, from Pinky and the Brain).
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Hang an AOL disc up there. They are shiney, useless, and will make you think of me; exactly like an ornament.
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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!"
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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!
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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. Posts: 3801 | Registered: Jan 2000
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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...
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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.
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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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