I’ve been so tardy this year. So far only about half of the decorations have gone up.
This is a new one. These decorations, with nursery rhyme images, were given to my wife when she was a six month old baby. They’re still in their original box, now 71 years old.
Oh my word @BenCotto … those are identical to the ones we had when I was a child. 😊
I can remember the box too.
I’ve not seen them or any like them since I left home … my parents stopped having a tree once we’d grown up, and then they moved and my brother and his wife took over and a lot of things were thrown out.
It rounds as if your wife and I are the same age.
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We actually applied to the Repair Shop to have them renovated, an excellent choice for their Christmas special we thought. Unfortunately it was not to be.
A box of 1940's xmas baubles sold recently for £80 and a 1920's tree a thousand plus. I remember xmas cake decorations Santa and Snowmen now collectable and popular again for a retro Christmas.
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I bet my mother's still got the old christmas cake decorations that she used to use when we were children - a little house and a little church, a Father Christmas (taller than the church steeple!), two robins (about knee high to santa!!) and various trees and holly sprigs. When we got to be slightly older we thought it was hilarious that they were all out of scale with each other.
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That’s brought back a nice memory @JennyJ - I remember similar cake decorations- the house, Santa and robin all similar size! I used to make a chocolate log with my Mum and she taught me how to make and roll a Swiss roll and how to ice it to look like a log 😊
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I can remember the box too.
I’ve not seen them or any like them since I left home … my parents stopped having a tree once we’d grown up, and then they moved and my brother and his wife took over and a lot of things were thrown out.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I remember xmas cake decorations Santa and Snowmen now collectable and popular again for a retro Christmas.