My Christmas decoration collection and Answer to December HPUD Guessing Contest

5 months ago

When @mipiano told me about the Christmas card and decorations collection initiative in her Hive Collectors community I thought what a great idea!! But then I remembered I've given most of my decorations away 😭. Luckily, I've posted about them before, and since some of these items have sentimental value for me, I wanted to share them here.

My favourite decoration is this bauble from my old company. The colourful company logo fits perfectly on the sphere and looks lovely on the silver background. I spent most of my working life at this company, had my ups and downs but overall it was ok. One year after I had left the company, I went back to meet old colleagues for lunch. When I was waiting in the reception, I saw they had a basket of these beautiful baubles. I think the proceeds might have been for charity, big companies tend to do a lot of these goodwill things at Christmas. Sadly I think I gave this or threw this away when I was moving to Taiwan, and am gutted I did because I really do like this bauble. It's so unique and forms a big part of my life.

Most girls like Hello Kitty, but my favourite Sanrio character is Little Twin Stars. I've got tones of their stuff and when I get around to it, will definitely post my collection. This Christmas decoration is part of the collection. I've had it for many years and it's starting to fall to pieces as the tree is just a piece of cardboard. You can see the folds at the base of the star at the top, hopefully it won't break.

Here's another set of Christmas ornaments that I threw or gave away. It's a set of four hand painted Christmas eggs that I bought from Czech I think. Each one of them are different and I remember I had to be extra careful with them every year as they are even more fragile than the baubles.

The only Christmas decoration that I have kept from many years ago is this pair of mini Christmas tree. They were given to me by my old neighbour Eileen. I lived next door to Eileen for 8 years till she passed away. Things got a bit difficult with Eileen towards the end but this still has sentimental value for me.

With most of my Christmas decorations gone, I had to start building up my collection this year. I got these glass icicles and angels. They look very sparkly as I have positioned them.on the tree so the Christmas lights shines into them.

A lot of the houses where I live have gone to town with their decorations. When I saw the bank of Christmas trees on a Noel stand in the shops, I figured I'd do a little display in my front window as well. They go perfect with Eileen's Christmas trees, and the fairy lights and stickers adds to the ambience at night.

I bought this wood Christmas tree in Germany last week. It has 6 sides and lots of dangling ornaments. I think it looks perfect on the stairs in the hallway which I have deliberately kept minimalistic.

I mustn't forget my little Christmas helpers Snowpea and Mary. They help to look after some of my tiny ornaments until I hang them up. A Swarowski crystal angel and a little bauble I got in Germany with my initial.

Last and not the least, I made a Hive Christmas decoration this year. In my next post I will tell you how you can make your own.

Answer to December HPUD Guessing Contest

The December HPUD Guessing Contest was to guess how tall one of Eileen's Christmas tree is. Measuring it was a little difficult than expected but I got there in the end. Out of the 20 entries, we have one winner who guessed the exact answer. Congrats to @ph1102 who also powered up!!! You win 40HBD, hope you enjoy your Christmas present!!

Name	HPUD Answer cm	Power up ?
@leaky20	12.5	-
@ph1102	13.4 is the correct answer	Yes
@coolmidwestguy	13.75	-
@ablaze	14.3	-
@phortun	14.4	-
@jane1289	14.5	-
@emeka4	14.6	-
@micheal87	15.3	-
@eddyss	15.4	-
@nkemakonam89	15.5	-
@xrayman	15.5	-
@gems.and.cookies	15.5	-
@mipiano	15.8	-
@bereal47	16.2	-
@littlebee4	16.4	-
@mdrguez	16.5	-
@pardinus	16.7	-
@soyunasantacruz	16.8	-
@ace108	16.8	-
@lizelle	17.6	-

Thanks to everyone else who entered this month. Have a great Christmas and see you in 2024 New Year HPUD Guessing Contest!

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49 comments

@bozz 80

5 months ago

We don't do too much with decorations either. We have some from when we were kids, but we don't really use those on our tree. The tree is mostly just some round ornaments and a couple special ones that people have given us over the years. I think your decorations look really nice!

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