[Ansteorra] Decorating the Tree

[kandace harris]

Hey Caley,
   
  What a great idea...please send me a picture...
   
  Merry Christmas to You and Gavin...
   
   New House , new tree, new things for tree trimming....You really are truly  Blessed...and ...So am I ...for having you two as my Friends..
   
   Love ya,
   Kandyce

medicfem at aol.com wrote:
  Greetings Ansteorra,

Well after much searching at least the top layer of my garage, I was beginning to give up hope. I realize I was starting a little late on the "getting into the holiday spirit" thing. Well the over time available at work is plentiful and there is sure alot of bills stacking up, so I sign up when ever I can at the hospital. I was about to scream," Bah Hum Bug!" When I stop myself and said, No, this is not a reason to give up hope. I am blessed and have much to thankful for this year. My family and I are healthy, my pets are loyal and loving, I have a wonderful man, a "new to me" home, and lots of great friends both in and out of the SCA.

Yet, I was feeling a little tested by the fact I couldn't find my box of ornaments or my tree skirt. So I laughed a little and looked around the house. Humm, only a true SCAer would understand this... I have boxes of feast and site tokens from events gone by and tons of "less than a cuff" pieces of trim in the last 10 plus years of playing this game. So up they went on the this sad bare tree.

Please understand. I know many parents beam at looking at the family tree looking at popsicle ornaments from their kids school years. Gavin and I are beaming looking at all the tokens that hang from our tree with the same sort of pride. Yes, some of my "ornaments" too are popsicle sticks, some are cool pewter shells or black stars made of steel, lots of leather disks, a few spoons, fimo, painted pine cones, glass beads, some wooden sheep, cup covers, and coins, some random left over bits of trim, some misc. silk flowers and feathers, a few wooden bobbins, some bits of an sca dance belt that broke and was never remade, a few lone earings and ta-da! We have a tree! Some material that someday will be "an elizabethian" circle the base. 

I stand back and I stare at the tree and have soo many memories attach to it. Years worth!
I stand back and feel a great sense of pride. Wow! There are some great artisians in our kingdom. Can we all try to make site tokens that would be great christmas tree ornaments?

SO thank you Ansteorra! My tree looks great! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Pass the eggnog!

HL Caley
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                  It's nice to be Important ...But....It's more important to be nice...Ldy, Kandyce of Oakclyffe 
   
  You see, in the final Analysis,...
  It was never between you and them...
   
                                      It's between You and God...