I have to say that my wife’s favorite time of year is Christmas. She seems to be planning for Christmas all year long. She loves to make ornaments as gifts for her friends and relatives to put on their Christmas Trees. Some years she will knit a lot of ornaments, some years they are crochet, sometimes she crafts them out of beads, or empty paper towel tubes. One year she made some little fairies out of artificial poinsettia flowers and pipe cleaners to put on the trees. Another year she painted burnt out light bulbs and made them look like beautiful Victorian ornaments. And yet another she painted frozen orange juice lids to look like snowman faces!
My wife never ceases to amaze me with her creativity. She has made so many ornaments for our own house that we have had to put up three Artificial Christmas Trees in our own house just to display all of the ornaments she has made! And of course, we have to have one that also has ornaments that were given to us by other people, or that we bought because we liked them ourselves.
Even so, we seem to be having trouble finding enough space for all of the ornaments. So we’ve started hanging them on wreaths and garlands that we use to decorate around the house.
And in preparation for future Christmases, we do a lot of bargain shopping in January to pick up Christmas clearance items. Last January we got a great price on several White Christmas Trees that were on clearance. We are thinking about putting them up on the front porch and decorating them with weatherproof ornaments. She’s thinking about ways to create those weather proof ornaments out of recycled materials, such as colorful bottle caps and soda can pop tops.