FReeper Canteen ~ Favorite Christmas Ornaments ~ 18 DEC 2007

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

 

The FReeper Canteen Presents

~Favorite Christmas Ornaments~

Welcome to the FReeper Canteen! It's great to have you with us!!
Thank you to all of our Troops, Veterans, and their families for allowing us to entertain you!

Late in the Middle Ages, Germans and Scandinavians placed evergreen trees inside their homes or just outside their doors to show their hope in the forthcoming spring. Our modern Christmas tree evolved from early traditions.

In the early 1800's, Christmas trees in Germany were typically decorated with candles, cookies, fruit, paper novelties, and candy. Then, a glassblower in Lauscha (a district long recognized for the quality of its glass) crafted some small glass balls to hang on his family's tree.

Around the midpoint of the Nineteenth Century, in addition to candle lights, decorations hanging from Christmas trees included miniature replicas of fruit, animals, toys, musical instruments and angels made primarily out of materials available in homes.

Another concept began to take hold with the German families in whose homes the first “popular” trees resided. Food, often gingerbread or other hard cookies, would be baked in the shape of fruits, stars, hearts, angels and bells.

As the idea of decorated Christmas trees spread, various countries added their own variations. Americans, for instance, would string long strands of cranberries or popcorn to circle their trees. Small gifts began to be used to decorate the tree, sometimes contained in little intricately woven baskets, sometimes nestled in the crook of a bough, sometimes just hanging by a thread or piece of yarn.

 F.W. Woolworth brought the glass ornament tradition to the United States in 1890. From 1870's to 1930's, Germans made the finest molds for making ornaments with nearly 5,000 different molds at the time. At the turn of the century there were over one hundred small cottage glass blowing workshops in Europe.

The Christmas tree market was born in 1851 when Catskill farmer Mark Carr hauled two ox sleds of evergreens into New York City and sold them all. By 1900, one in five American families had a Christmas tree, and 20 years later, the custom was nearly universal.

Six species account for about 90 percent of the nation's Christmas tree trade. Scotch pine ranks first, comprising about 40 percent of the market, followed by Douglas fir which accounts for about 35 percent. The other big sellers are noble fir, white pine, balsam fir and white spruce.

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Please remember: The Canteen is a place to honor and entertain our troops. The Canteen is family friendly, and please leave politics at the door. Let's have fun!

We pray for your continued strength, to be strong in the face of adversity.
We pray for your safety, that you will return to your families and friends soon.
We pray that your hope, courage, and dignity remain unbroken, so that you may show others the way.

God Bless You All ~ Today, Tomorrow and Always

 

 

 

[luvie]

MS.BEEEEEEE!

(((((((hugs)))))))

Yeah...imagine YOU with a knight ornament! :D

I loved those bubble lights! I’ll bet I have some
somewhere in the big box of stuff in the garage. I
haven’t touched it in years. No room for a tree. LOL!

[TASMANIANRED]

It does make the house smell nice.

[SandRat]

Santa Needs some T.L.C.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

*HUG*
Imagine dat!
Hee heeI was so pleased to find those medieval ornaments!
;0)
I am debating if I will put up a tree or not..
There is so much stuff in here already!
Maybe just a small one.
LOL

[TASMANIANRED]

The bell bothered her.

They were both fine alone but together, they wanted to pull each others antlers off.

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Schatzi, Smooch....

[TASMANIANRED]

Gonna take a lotta sweet talk to get back on my good side.

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening Meg. Hugs.

[TASMANIANRED]

LOL....Santa’s horizion has been expanding.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, lauren, for our National Anthem...singing along!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

*smooch*
Evenin’ Sissy!

[Kathy in Alaska]

LOL! I can just imagine them looking at each other....maybe chuckling a bit.

[luvie]

It’s better than the stuff in the cans! :D

[PROCON]

Gonna take a lotta sweet talk to get back on my good side.

How did I get on your BAD SIDE....sorry..We chauvinists just take, and take, and treat our women so BAD.

I guess I'll just apoligize, take my warts and all, and hope you will forgive me.

Seriously, though, I hope you and yours have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS, it sounds like your extended family and you will survive.!!

I will too!!

[luvie]

I would have to hang a tree from the ceiling to find room
for one! LOL!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

You two have me craving cookies now!
LOL

[SandRat]

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[SandRat]

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[SandRat]

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[SandRat]

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