Without a doubt, the most precious things about Christmas are the beautiful, lasting memories that are made at this very special time of the year.
Whether your Christmas celebrations are lavish and steeped in many years of tradition, or they are low-key and perhaps something a little different every year, there will always be precious Christmas memories made.
The same concept applies to Christmas decorating too. Christmas decorating can be just as diverse and memorable as those celebrations, yet still create many beautiful Christmas memories, each in their own way.
The cornerstone of almost all Christmas decorating, the Christmas Tree, is the perfect place to combine your precious Christmas memories with your treasured Christmas decorations.
We’d love to show you some beautiful ways that you can create a Christmas Tree full of memories.
Photo Baubles
Photo baubles are a fantastic way to capture snapshots of special memories and then enjoy them on your tree.
A popular option is to use photo baubles to house your yearly Santa photos. It’s a great way to record how the family has grown and changed over the years. But that is definitely not the only option.
You could add a photo bauble with a memorable occasion or two from the past 12 months – it might be a family shot at a wedding when you’ve all got your “Sunday best” outfits on, a fun selfie from a day at the beach or perhaps someone’s first day of school or a special achievement. Make sure you note the date on there somewhere so that you can piece it all together when you gather round the tree to hang them again the next time.
Personalised Baubles
Personalised baubles provide many opportunities for capturing and creating truly heartfelt and thoughtful Christmas decorations for your tree.
Adding a carefully chosen bauble to your tree that has a name written in gorgeous glitter hand calligraphy certainly makes for a beautiful tree decoration, but there are many ways you can tweak this idea for something even more special.
Personalised baubles can also be designed to include the date or year or a sentimental phrase or message. We’ve seen baubles with cute nicknames or “in” jokes or phrases that clearly have special meaning to the recipient. It is something very wonderful to be able to give a gift that is like nothing else you could find.
And there’s no need to worry about your collection of personalised baubles not co-ordinating with the rest of your decorating choices, especially if you like to change your theme regularly. Why not have a dedicated style or theme just for your personalised, or any other memento, baubles? They could even be hung on a separate tree to stand as a very special and treasured Christmas decoration in it’s own right.
Craft Baubles
Our Craft Baubles, Teardrops and Discs provide a perfect opportunity to create a beautiful Christmas tree decoration filled with special memories. They can easily be filled, trimmed and decorated with elements that symbolise all sorts of special events.
For example, you could fill a Teardrop with sand from the beach of a special holiday and decorate the top with twine and shells, write the date and location on a little slip of paper and feed it through the top.
Or how about drying petals from flowers that formed part of a beautiful bouquet or floral arrangement from a wedding or anniversary and placing these in a Craft Bauble. Simply trim the top of the bauble with complimentary ribbons and lace to make a very pretty Christmas memory.
And finally, our Glass disc can be decorated with photos that have been printed on white office paper and simply glued to the outside of the disc using modge podge or a mix of water and PVA glue. Finish off with some smart braid to tidy up any rough edges around the photo – simply lovely!
Baby’s First Christmas
There is nothing quite like sharing the joy and excitement of a Baby’s First Christmas so to make sure you can capture that wonderful memory on your tree this year, our range of Baby’s First Christmas decorations provide lots of options.
From Shatterproof Character Baubles, Glass Baubles filled with feathers, Discs embellished with tiny footprints and traditional Hand Painted Baubles, there’s no end of choice.
Glass Hearts
As you can imagine, there is always great excitement in our studio whenever we receive an order for a decoration that is to be part of a marriage proposal. The words “Will you marry me?” look extra special in glitter calligraphy written on our Glass Hearts. What a beautiful Christmas tree decoration for a beautiful memory!
They are also a lovely way to commemorate the First Christmas as Mr & Mrs. What could be nicer than adding a little romance to your Christmas tree with a special decoration that captures a lovely milestone?
Remembering a loved one
Christmas is often a time when we want to feel close to those that we love, but they are no longer with us. Many families have a tradition of putting a special decoration on their Christmas tree for friends and family that have passed away. These Sympathy or Memorial Ornaments are a beautiful way of ensuring that your Christmas tree is full of wonderful memories every year.
There are so many ways that you can fill your Christmas, and your Christmas tree, with beautiful memories. At the end of the day, the memories are really what it is all about and so any way that you can find to hold onto and honour your special Christmas memories, and hopefully create some new ones too, is definitely worth giving some thought.
The Christmas Cart has a wide range of Christmas gifts, keepsakes, and décor available online that are perfect for making and remembering precious Christmas memories. Explore our website to see what’s possible.