Taking photos of my little Christmas tree is quite a challenge - with or without flash! This is the tree's 35th Christmas with me. I remember when I bought it (and also where), as it was for the first Christmas after I moved to Borås.
The locomotive under the tree is a one that I once gave my dad for Christmas - he was a big railway/train enthusiast (he even wrote books on the topic). I found it when we were clearing the house after he died and then took it home to add to my own Christmas stuff. The elf came with some Christmas flower arrangement at some point in history, I don't remember when. He decided he likes to live under the Christmas tree with the locomotive.
I have another Christmas tree (even smaller), which for some reason is red instead of green. I bought that one perhaps a couple of decades ago, in an ordinary Swedish department store. Not sure where it was made, but the tiny wooden ornaments look 'German style' to me.
Your big tree sure has held up well. And the little tree is adorable; I have never seen one like it. did the decorations come with it...they match it so well. Little elf and train are a perfect finish.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ginny. The decorations on the little red tree did come with it, all the parts in a flat little box. I still assemble vs disassemble it every year. The other tree came with a set of baubles initially too, but I have added more decorations over the years, when I've found things the right size.
DeleteVery festive! I'd like to find something similar to your little red one though.
ReplyDeleteWish I could tell you where to find one, Amy!
DeleteYou are right, Monica, the ornaments on the small red tree do look very much like what we get here in Germany.
ReplyDeleteThe little locomotive and the story behind it is lovely, a keepsake for sure.
I was in two minds about setting up my own Christmas tree this year (maybe you remember that I only started that last year for the first time in history!). Somehow, I didn't get round to/didn't feel like it, and now I sort of regret not having one.
But I won't be home tonight anyway, and leave the house early tomorrow morning, only to return on the 27th - Christmas will be over then, so it won't really matter that I did not have my own tree this year.
Meike, until I found and bought that small tree when I was 30+, I had never bothered about a having a tree in my own home, as back then I always stayed with my parents for Christmas.
DeleteThe trees look lovely and that little red one, with it's pretty decorations is so unusual.
ReplyDeleteWe've had various trees over the years, but when we came to live in Spain, our artificial tree and many of the decorations went missing in the move. We bought another, very realistic looking artificial tree, and used that for years. Eventually, as sometimes happens with these things, I decided not to bother, and we stored the tree away in the garage. Some years later a local children's home asked for a tree and decorations and if seemed a good idea to pass it on to them. I've no idea what happened to it, but when I came to search for it, the tree it was nowhere to be found! To this day I wonder where it's got to!
Have a lovely Christmas - I think you celebrate this evening, as they do in most of Europe?
What a mystery about your tree, CG! You're right, our "main" Christmas celebration in Sweden is Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day. And Father Christmas usually comes knocking on the door, rather than bothering about flying reindeer and chimneys! ;)
Deleteno way does your tree look that old, still perfect. i have those ornaments on my kitchen counter tree, just like your red tree.. Merry Christmas
ReplyDeleteThanks Sandra. Yes that tree has proved to be good quality. Until a few years ago it even had its original chain of fairy lights; until I couldn't find replacement bulbs for that any more. Then my brother got me a chain of baubles with LED lights in them which I've used since.
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