Holidailies Post 7 - Favorite Christmas Decoration
Oops. Missed a day. I guess that's what I get for getting into the Holiday spirits too much.
I'll keep this one simple. It's not an official Holidailies writing prompt, but I think it's a decent idea.
What is your favorite Christmas decoration, past, present or future?
For me, it's probably a toss up. The one that I remember most fondly, and haven't been able to recreate for many, many years would have to be a simple string of lights. We moved to Tennessee when I was six years old. The house was a two story, one hundred year old farm house. In my memories, the place seemed huge, but then everything does when you're young.
The dining room was adjacent to the downstairs hallway, separated from the hall by an odd half wall. The wall had a window cut out of it that spanned the length of it, and had banisters (for lack of a better word) in the area that had been cut out. The dining room had an old antique table, a buffett, and an antique china hutch. I can't remember for certain, but I'm pretty sure Ma and Pa picked up the hutch from a antique shop from Jonesborough shortly after we moved up here.
Every Christmas Ma would hang a garland of red lights around the hutch. The lights were a bit more festive looking than just the plain bulbs of today, like little flowers almost. At night with the regular lights off, the red lights lit up the entire room with a cheery warm glow. I always liked to just stand there and look at the lights and the room.
Now, two houses later, we still have the hutch. We still have the lights. However, we've not been putting them up for many years. Even when they were on the hutch in this house, it just didn't have the same effect. I miss those lights.
The other decoration that sticks out as a personal favorite, is a simple ornament. At one point I had almost complete collection of the Hallmark Star Wars ornaments. My favorite of all of them is a miniature lunch box. It's the same lunch box that I had when I was growing up. It's really cool. Not red Christmas light cool, but cool all the same.
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I'll keep this one simple. It's not an official Holidailies writing prompt, but I think it's a decent idea.
What is your favorite Christmas decoration, past, present or future?
For me, it's probably a toss up. The one that I remember most fondly, and haven't been able to recreate for many, many years would have to be a simple string of lights. We moved to Tennessee when I was six years old. The house was a two story, one hundred year old farm house. In my memories, the place seemed huge, but then everything does when you're young.
The dining room was adjacent to the downstairs hallway, separated from the hall by an odd half wall. The wall had a window cut out of it that spanned the length of it, and had banisters (for lack of a better word) in the area that had been cut out. The dining room had an old antique table, a buffett, and an antique china hutch. I can't remember for certain, but I'm pretty sure Ma and Pa picked up the hutch from a antique shop from Jonesborough shortly after we moved up here.
Every Christmas Ma would hang a garland of red lights around the hutch. The lights were a bit more festive looking than just the plain bulbs of today, like little flowers almost. At night with the regular lights off, the red lights lit up the entire room with a cheery warm glow. I always liked to just stand there and look at the lights and the room.
Now, two houses later, we still have the hutch. We still have the lights. However, we've not been putting them up for many years. Even when they were on the hutch in this house, it just didn't have the same effect. I miss those lights.
The other decoration that sticks out as a personal favorite, is a simple ornament. At one point I had almost complete collection of the Hallmark Star Wars ornaments. My favorite of all of them is a miniature lunch box. It's the same lunch box that I had when I was growing up. It's really cool. Not red Christmas light cool, but cool all the same.
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