Always visited the store windows at Neiman
Marcus.
Hurricane lamps in a Lake Highlands neighborhood.
Candles in our front room plate
glass windows with a string of large colored lights on the edge of the roof.
We got a silver tinsel aluminum
tree because of my allergies. It was enhanced by the revolving light
of blue, green, yellow and red.
German Christmas ornaments from my grandmother's - two small bulbs still on my tree
(blown glass).
Ornaments - birds with nylon strings
for tails - they clipped on.
Bubble lights for the tree - liquid filled lights began
"bubbling" after they warmed up.
For a time, cotton bedding sprinkled
with glitter was used as a tree skirt.
Nativity Scene - my mom would set up and my sister and I would forever be
moving around the sheep, donkey and all the major figures.
Mother made cheese logs at
Christmastime.
Holiday tins with ribbon candy, different kinds of hard candies, some
with soft centers.
Window sill candle lights - we had three-tiered lights with yellow bulbs
Tinsel you always got a package of tinsel to drape on your green
Christmas tree. After a while, draping became too tedious and with a
well-developed aim, you could "throw" tinsel on the tree. Later
on, tinsel would still be found on the floor when you were doing your Easter
Egg Hunt.
Mother would always have a colored
blown glass ball where you would write out your name in Elmer's glue and
sprinkle glitter over it. I still have a blue one on my tree which reads:
"Bobby 1959."
Christmas Elves we had two or three which you could drape over the edge of
the credenza. We also had a pine cone tree on the TV.
Charlie Brown's Christmas Special
Angel Chimes gold-tone candle chimes. When the candles are lit,
the rising heat starts the angels spinning causing the dangling chimes to
strike the bell.
Grapefruit/shrimp with toothpicks
for New Year's.
Do We need anything else?
Just you, dear, just you!
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