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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Cyberella on December 24, 2008, 02:44:01 PM
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(I put a 'frame' around it and used it as a Christmas email card to all my friends)
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Nice Tree. :)
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(I put a 'frame' around it and used it as a Christmas email card to all my friends)
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Thats yours? very nice!
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Merry Christmass, Happy Hanuka, and lovely Festivus for the rest of us.
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Merry Christmass, Happy Hanuka, and lovely Festivus for the rest of us.
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Thanks, guys. I love decorating the tree and the house and all. LOVE Christmas.
Here's a close-up of some of our ornaments. We have several hundred Hallmark ornaments.
Some date back to the early 70's when Hallmark first came out with their line of ornaments. These are collector's items, and some are worth several hundred dollars.
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This one is priced at $285. in the Hallmark 'green book':
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Wow thats great good job cyberella :)
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Wow thats great good job RubyStars :)
Rubystars?
You mean Cyberella
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Nice tree Cyberella. Merry Christmas to you.
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Wow thats great good job cyberella :)
Rubystars?
You mean Cyberella
right :'(
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Very cool tree and ornaments! Merry Christmas!
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Your Tree & Decorations are splendid, Cyberella. :)
Merry Christmas !!!
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Merry Christmas Cyberella! Your tree is beautiful.
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What a great tree!! I thought I was in my den it has the exact same fireplace and door next to it. No tree for me however but yours looks great.
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Best wishes and prayers for all of you during this Holy Season.
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Merry Christmas and Chanukka :) :) :)
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What a great tree!! I thought I was in my den it has the exact same fireplace and door next to it. No tree for me however but yours looks great.
Thanks, cjd.
Same fireplace and door next to it- wow some coincidence!
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Thanks, guys.
Here's some more:
This series is called 'frosty friends'.
If I had the one where a little Eskimo and a seal are sitting on ice reading books, it would be worth over $700.00. Very rare.
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Just had to show you all our grapefruit tree in the back yard.
These pics are just small portions of it. It's a huge tree and just
loaded with grapefruit. We've already given bushels to the neighbors and it's still loaded. LOL
We also have a lemon tree, a lime tree and an orange tree, but they aren't as big as the grapefruit tree. All are loaded with fruit.
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Well, thanks again, guys.
And again Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah.
May God bless us each and every one.
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Best wishes and Happy Holidays to you all. Bless all of you for what you do.
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That is the one thing I have always love about this time of year the Spirit
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I'd be scared to even use those ornaments. I'd probably keep them in a case and use cheap ones for actual decoration.
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Nice tree.
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are you in florida cyberella?
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I'd be scared to even use those ornaments. I'd probably keep them in a case and use cheap ones for actual decoration.
Yes me too
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I'd be scared to even use those ornaments. I'd probably keep them in a case and use cheap ones for actual decoration.
LOL. We're very careful with them.
They are in pristine condition, but one thing; we don't have the original boxes to most of them. That brings the value down a little bit.
They were bought to put on the tree just because they were thought to be pretty. Nobody ever dreamed they'd be worth anything.
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are you in florida cyberella?
No. I live in Corpus Christi, Texas- on the Texas coast.
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That is the one thing I have always love about this time of year the Spirit
If only we could keep the spirit of Christmas, Hanukka all year long..
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Working in retail I suppose I see the "spirit of Christmas" as something other than what people usually think of it as. I see people blowing up at innocent workers because they're mad at themselves for waiting too long to do their shopping, or because they feel obligated to buy things they can't afford. I see customers arguing with each other because they both want the same item.
I was in the break room the other day and overheard a conversation about how a particular product was out of stock and the customer threw a temper tantrum and demanded to speak to a manager. Then when the manager came the customer lied and said the employee was rude. Merry Christmas huh?
At another job I saw two women get into a vicious screaming match with each other because one of them wanted to fill out a check as payment when it was unecessary as the automatic check printer would print it out anyway. One of the managers had to calm them down before it got physical.
Close to Christmas drivers also get crazier as they're in a manic rush to get to the stores they need to get to.
This is the "spirit of the season" that I see most often. I'm happy when I'm with my family or talking with my friends, but when I'm at work I see more of the dark side of things.
I hope that one day people will learn to relax more and see it as a joyous holiday rather than as a time of stress and arguments.
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I have some very fond memories of Christmas, because of my grandmother.
My mother was a convert to Torah Judaism back during the 2nd World War, and even though we naturally did not celebrate Christmas when I was little, we did go to my grandmother's house (as my parents put it), "to help Grandmom celebrate her holiday". So I have fond memories of Chanukah (with my family), and Christmas (with my grandmom.)
My grandmom did not celebrate Christmas religiously; she was more of what I call a "gastronomic Catholic" (!) I remember the 7 Fishes Dinner for Christmas Eve, the Torrone, the Baci candies, and a lot more.
My grandmom died in 1985, and my Mom died earlier this year, so this is my first holiday season without any of my family members alive (my entire family has passed on, apart from my older sister who I have not seen in years). All I have is my husband and our children, and of course, all of you guys.
I'm glad this is one Jewish forum where I can say these kinds of things; on some Jewish forums, if I mentioned that half my family was Catholic, I'd be looked at differently and treated differently.
I love this place, I finally found a Jewish forum where I can fit in, as a very right wing Jew who can relate to both "sides" of this holiday season!
(BTW I have a sign on my lawn that says, "Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah", which annoys to no end my next-door liberal Jewish neighbor who not only voted for Obama but had a lawn sign for him and campaigned for him, argh!!!!)
I told my neighbor that if she doesn't leave me alone re: my sign I will put a lifesize Nativity scene up next year, just for her! (j/k) :::D