Here's tree no. 2... It couldn't BE more different from my bedroom tree! This one is (a.)real, and (b.)NOT a theme tree. Actually, I guess you could say the theme is 27 years of married life. Every Christmas. we unwrap our family history and hang it up for all to see. Our oldest 25-cents-a-box-Kmart-Christmas-clearance (1977.) A toothpick ornament made by my oldest niece when she was in first grade...(she's 33 now, and the toothpicks are getting kind of frail). A pipecleaner snowman made by my youngest niece. Some felt and sequin ornaments I made when I was in eighth grade (those would be 35 years old now...yikes!) and the fancy beaded satin balls I made when I was jobless in the fall of 1986 (to keep myself from going crazy.) The family heirloom ornaments--the kind that you find in antique stores now, labeled as 50's and 60's kitsch--handed down to us by my mother. THIS tree, though this is a poor picture, is a large part of what Christmas is about for me.
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