Mine is blown glass, blown glass, blown glass. I have quite a few Christopher Radkos until he got ridiculously expensive and I moved from a Navy Exchange where I could put them on layaway.

My next most common type is the Lenox and waterfords. I get those on after Christmas sales.

course I have a handful of Hallmarks and kids popsicle sticks and glitter creations

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I have a melange of ornaments. I have everything from handmade ones that were gifts and ones from Disney, some from Solvang, CA, some ceramic ones, some stuffed ones. I am pretty eclectic I love all different color lights I love tinsel and garland and strings of snowflakes and pearls. I can't even remember everything. Each year it's like opening presents when I decorate my tree.

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I really love the vintage ornaments ( like shiny brite). Some are very collectible and can be quite expensive. I have been collecting awhile now, and probably have too many.

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All our decorations are personal and most are home made by our boys. Some might find it awful, but for us the tree is a celebration of our life and family; not a color coordinated show piece. When we started out 30 years ago, we had non descript red balls and assorted what-nots. But, our tree is now a collection of things our boys made growning up, a few from particular special places we have visited as a family, one for each child's birth, and our wedding. It is in no way pretty or impressive to anyone but us.

I am always impressed by those with color coordinated, beautiful trees with fancy and most likely expensive things. Those trees are beautiful. But, I like our cheap looking tree of memories. Hanging the tree is a celebration of our lives and we all participate and talk about almost every item we hang. The tree is our celebration. Our tree trimming takes many hours and includes lots of laughs and fun stories.

We aren't doing a tree this year. Our youngest son died last Spring. We are spending two weeks together as a family, but there will be no tree or celebration. Maybe next year ...

Nightowlrn, you just described my tree/my families trees to a T.

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Most of mine are Disney related or Santa Claus.

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When my mother was still with us we always had two.One in her in-law appartment in front of the bow window. It was decorated with the kid's school projects, fun stuff, memories, birthdays her favorites that my aunt made etc. It had colored lights. The other we had was all in white, gold and red.I tried to make it more pretty. It had clear lights. This year we are going to have just one. The kids still want it in her appt. That is where we had Christmas morning and still will. I will have to sort out what to use but have a feeling it will be the fun stuff. That is my project for today.

I have white snowflakes that we got while on vacation in Williamsburg, Virginia! I love them. I also have red and gold ornaments that I have had for years...

(((Hugs))) Nightowl. Hope you are doing ok. I think of you often, and always pray for your family. As you know, I know exactly how this all feels. I won't lie. The "firsts" are very difficult. Grief never goes away. It's always there, every single day. Some days are easier than others. Some, are just almost unbearable. But, the "firsts" are tough. I wish you and family many Christmas blessings.

Alot of mine are these round antique victorian with alot of flowery design they are quite quite old ... Peace. Catherine

Our ornaments are a menagerie of everything that we've collected over 20 years of marriage. I don't put the "new home", "baby's first Christmas", or ones the kids made up anymore. We have several from different places that we've traveled to. DH has about 20 Philadelphia Eagles ornaments that my Mom has given him over the years. I like my Betty Boop ornaments the best I guess. There is also a Snowbaby one that a friend gave me years ago that I love. ~Lisa

About half of mine are blown glass. I love them. No Radko's unfortunately!! The rest are all ornaments the kids have been given or made over the years. I love how they each know who made them or who gave them to them!!

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My white tree is filled with blown glass, Polonaise and Radko's. (After 200 I lost count)
(I did have a friend in Georgia that her entrance tree was filled, and I do mean filled, with only Radko!!)
The tree in the dining room has Nutcracker themed ornaments.
We have 3 other trees but in the house we are in right now there just is not enough room for them. (1 is a everything goes tree, 1 is a military theme tree and the other is a woodland nature tree)

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Mostly homemade ones the kids have made in school or ones made for us when we first got married. After that it would be ornaments that mark an occasion (first Christmas, first house, etc)

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Mainly the blown glass type, they are so pretty. But plenty of homemade by my daughters, lots of Santas, pretty balls, muticolored lights.

Nightowlrn, I am so sorry about your son. I didn't know that, and I can't imagine the hurt you must feel.

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Sounds like ours, nightowlrn! I love our tree. It is covered in mostly handmade ornaments by our kids. I am a little sad that there are fewer new ones as they get older. Then there are also ornaments I made growing up and others I have collected over the years that I liked or was given.
I also get our kids each a new ornament of their choosing each year. Sometimes they're homemade and sometimes they're store bought...but they usually are something that represents who they are/were that year.

When I look at our tree I see lots of memories and love.

peapie

I also have alot of the homemade crafts my children made when they were younger I also have my first christmas ball with my name and of course my brother Sonny's and my husbands our childrens first christmas with their picture those will always always remain on my tree. The rest are all homemade all country all wooden or antique nothing modern at all... Peace. Catherine

I am so sorry to hear about your son. This is also a hard Christmas for my family as well. My youngest brother died in January, so we had our "Christmas" if you could call it that, this past Saturday. We got together had dinner and spent some time together. My dad is going to be working on Christmas to keep his mind busy, my other brother is also going to see if he could work because from Chritsmas thru New Years this year is gonna be hard, first its Christmas, then Dec. 28 would have been my brother's 28th birthday and New Years Eve is my neices bithday, so through all this sadness we have to put on happy faces and celebrate for her.

Back to the question... I usually have all sorts of ornaments, seseme street characters, disney, toys, hallmark. This year I just did white lights and red and silver balls

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mostly we have disney...we get a new ornament each year..last year I got a helloy kitty one and the year before that my mom got me an ornament made special with my sorority on it

Most? Glass bulbs of various shapes, sizes, colorings. They're needed to reflect the lights and make the tree pretty, IMHO.

Other than that, our tree is like many others here - a hodge-podge of life and collections of things over the years. Many have significant sentimental value.

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Can't you guys post some pics of your beautiful trees? You are just teasing me with all your talk of hand blown glass and snowmen and handmade ornaments. I want pics!

My husband is a Baptist and I am a Buddhist. We have been together only 7 years. I have not celebrated Christmas since 1995, when my father died. After 14 years of feeling depressed during the holiday season, I decided life was just too darn short to NOT enjoy at least some pretty lights and sparkly glittery things during the season. So I put some lights on the outside of our house 2 weeks ago, the day after Thanksgiving. Right on schedule, 'just like the rest of America is doing' I told myself. And I felt happy for doing it. The look so pretty at night, even if I only had THREE strings of lights to use! One red, one green, and one pink, hahaha!

Then my happy bubble burst, when we had to have our dog put to sleep last week AND a couple of days later, our pot bellied pig died. Man.....Bruno my dog has been here with me all this time. I'm so sad and lonely and depressed. And then yesterday, my DH had a surprise for me in the back of the truck when he came home from work. OH NO! I thought---not a new pet, I'm NOT ready!---- but no, it was a Charlie Brown Christmas tree! One he'd cut down with his own axe in the woods. It's not big, and it's a cedar tree. The top is too spindly to hold a star, unless I cut it short, haha. He even got me a plastic blue pot AND 2 bags of pretty polished small round rocks to put into the pot, to hold the tree, so there is no dirt = no mess! He went through a little bit of trouble to do this for us! LOL

I was so surprised. Happily surprised!!! EXICITED even! Our first tree together! I don't even have any ornaments for it, but I plan to learn to do some origami today and I had to take down some lights from outside to put on the tree last night, LOL. I am feeling so happy. But the best part? That was when my husband took my large green glass Buddha and put him under the tree, saying he too deserved a place in our holiday, and wow, that really really REALLY was the best gift I could receive. ;-)

I actually popped popcorn last night and strung some up. First time in my life I have ever done that. But guess what? I didn't care for how it looked on the tree. The tree is too small I guess. I need something smaller. The popcorn string just seemed so, gangly! Making my own ornaments for our tree is going to make it that much more special. But I don't even have any glitter or anything, really! Not even colored paper. I thought maybe I could learn tomake some origami cranes or something. Any ideas? I could cut out some snowflakes like we used to do in the fourth grade, hahaha! Maybe I can take a pic of my precious little tree when it's done. I would love to see pics of your trees too! Can we post some here? Does MC have enough space for us to do that? It would be so fun, just for the holidays.

I think my husband is just the greatest man on the planet. ;-D Sometimes, it is the simplest gifts that are the best, right?!!