Ornament Tales: Day 6

Tonight's ornaments are two that I bought...but not at the same time. We had a little gift shop in our mall in Tullahoma and at Christmas time they carried ornaments of all kinds. I fell in love with the larger wooden Danish ornament and really wanted it for our tree, but it was more than I wanted to spend so...when I found the small sizr of the same ornament I decided that would do on our tree, but still really liked the larger ornament better. You will see a lot of bells on my tree due to the fact that I have a bell collection so it made sense (to me, at least) to extend that bell collection onto the tree! Now, on to the rest of the story about the Danish ornaments! After Christmas all the ornaments in that gift shop were on half price and the larger pair of bells hadn't been purchased and that ornament was still amongst the unsold ones. I wisked that one up and it has joined it's smaller twin on our tree ever since. I know that I bought this ornament when living at our former Tullahoma home... so it has hung on our tree for more than 40 years. And, I still really like both ornaments! Today was a special day for Esther and Patrick. A group of ladies at our church gave a super special shower for them. We had such a good time and Esther and Patrick are more set to start housekeeping! Melany, Alex, and Brooke joined us for the party. This afternoon I have been attending my virtual cross stitch retreat. I have been enjoying it, I have been able to talk with stitchers from the United States and around the world...around the world = Australia, Mexico, Canada, England, and probably more, those are the places I remember. I have also got to listen in on four or five needlework designers and listen to them answer questions that we could type to them. Last night I did what they call "speed dating!" You enter and tap that you are ready to join and they put with another stitcher and you talk to them for five minutes and then that "window" closes and they pair you with someone else. That was fun. I will probably enter what they call a "stitching room" and join several others in that "room" and then have what resembles a zoom meeting and we talk with one another and stitch. I have worked on finishing ornamaents and have also stitched for a while on a sampler. It is amazing to me how easy it is to get to know people who have a common interest with you! To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!