The Fun of Creating Christmas Decorations For Your Children.
As my children were growing up and my first grandchildren, I would make ornaments that would be personally theirs for putting up on the tree. My oldest helped when she was little then the others followed suit each year making salt dough ornaments. We had a full set of Dorthy of Wizard of OZ, Disney Characters, and misc. bears, angels etc. I was heart broken when we moved to the country and mice got into my storage and ate most of the ornaments. (Hope they got heart burn.) My next attempt at personal ornaments were embroidered ornaments. We had a panda bear, angels, my favorite were the Holly Babies ornaments, and mercy the rest escapes me. My aunt, their great aunt, made crocheted bells, and stockings to put on the tree. As they left home, I would give them their own ornaments to keep. I bought some porcelain Holly Baby Angels to represent each of my children on my own tree as mine grew bare from giving away theirs. I still ha...