Beautiful blown glass ornaments should be displayed year round
By Jim S.
Monday, April 02, 2007
The biggest problem with Christmas ornaments is that you most often get them for Christmas or buy them in after Christmas sales. The ornaments then spend 10 or 11 months in a box before you get to enjoy them.
My mother found a way around this. She had a small three foot tree up year round that she called the holiday tree. At Easter, it was decorated with hand-blown glass egg ornaments, for the fourth of July it was adorned with German and Polish ornaments in reds, whites, and blues.
As a result, every family vacation seemed to gravitate toward those year round Christmas stores that stocked ornaments year round. Over the last few years I have finally opened my mother’s eyes to the amazing ornament stores on the web. She’s partial to snowman ornaments that can adorn the tree almost half the year in Illinois, but she now has blown glass ornaments for every occasion. The benefit is that we don’t have to hunt down a Christmas Store wherever we vacation.