Gilmore is a 27 year old who loves decorating and is a self-proclaimed expert on just about everything. At least she likes to think so. Copyright 2011. Consult a design professional before beginning your project.
There was a hallmark commercial when I was young of a very large Christmas tree with only one Christmas ornament on it, the couple’s first Christmas together. My mom in an effort to avoid this, always buys a matching set of ornaments for the tree each year. Each of the kids get one, & we keep our ornaments separately in a box. Some years we have made crafts of it: punching tin ornaments or painting ceramic or wood ornaments as a family. We also each keep a Christmas card with the ornament & the year written on it. This way, we will always take our memories with us & will never have a one ornament tree. We each have an ornament collection that it would take most people years to collect, full of sentimentality. Hmm I thought I was making up the word sentimentality, but the spell checker seems ok with it. I learn something new everyday. Works for me!
