Holiday Ornaments: What's Your Favorite?
Decorating your home for the holiday? Show us your favorite piece!
When we decorate our home for the holidays I remind my family of the story around each decoration. One of my favorites is the very first ornament I received from a friend who told me how important it is to build your own collection of holiday ornaments. I was single and had just moved into my own apartment at the time. I had a little Charlie Brown tree and not much to put on it. The little crochet dove she gave me has a musical box in in the back that plays a whiney (albeit not so loudly today) 'It's A Small World.' Another good one is the little house ornament that represented the year we bought our first home in Pennsylvania. We had bought a townhouse and the ornament looked like our home. At the time I worked across from the Moravian …
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Rev. Paula Maeder Connor
8:11 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Ive been collecting things over the years. 33 years ago as a poor seminarian, a friend offered me a Lladro angel at Christmas. Having been a Spanish major in college, the Lladro porcelain was so precious...and I thought out of my reach financially. With that first angel gift I started a life long collecting tradition...saving enough each year to buy one figurine from the Lladro Children's … more ›