My Ornaments
A Little About Christmas Ornaments
Category: File - :Czerwona bombka choinkowa ze stanu Tennessee USA zblizenie.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Common thin blown glass ornament empty inside, a typical Polish frosted glass bombka
Category: Image - :Christbaumkugel.jpg|thumb|250px|Christmas bauble (called a Christmas ball in American English)
Christmas ornaments are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to festoon a Christmas tree.
Ornaments take many different forms, from a simple round ball to highly artistic designs. Ornaments are almost always reused year after year, rather than purchased annually, and family collections often contain a combination of commercially produced ornaments and decorations created by family members. Such collections are often passed on and augmented from generation to generation.
Santa Claus is a commonly used figure. Candy canes, fruit, animals and snowflake imagery are also popular choices
Lucretia P. Hale's story "The Peterkins' Christmas-Tree"Lucretia P. Hale, The Peterkin Papers. 1960; Houghton Mifflin offers a short catalog of the sorts of ornaments used in the 1870s:
:"There was every kind of gilt hanging-thing, from gilt pea-pods to butterflies on springs. There were shining flags and lanterns, and bird-cages, and nests with birds sitting on them, baskets of fruit, gilt apples, and bunches of grapes."
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