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Each year at Christmas time, my mother created an original tree ornament from something found in nature or that would normally be discarded, popsicle stick sleds, ribbon angels, clothespin soldiers, and many others. Each ornament was hand-made, signed, and dated, and holiday visitors to her home were invited to select an ornament to take home for their own trees.

We have continued her tradition. Each year we create and produce a new ornament design for friends, family, and neighbors who visit our home during the holidays. No two ornaments are ever exactly alike. We’ve made pine cone snowmen and skiers, our own ribbon angels, and--being wine lovers--a few years ago we began creating our ornaments with wine corks. We’ve turned corks into reindeer, locomotives, candles, airplanes, rocking horses, elves, owls, palm trees, sail boats, sheep, and bears.

This year we did an origami Christmas tree and each one was decorated differently. Between my Mom’s creations and ours, we now have enough homemade ornaments to decorate an entire large tree.