Christmas Stuff - Part 1

My strategy for decorating the Christmas tree had always been the same: 

• Arrange the ornaments evenly around the tree so that no part of the tree looks ‘undecorated’ and
• Try not to put similar ornaments next to each other. 

This year I decided to ignore the second part of the strategy and to intentionally group like ornaments. Some are grouped by shape or color. Others are full of family history:

Inherited from my mother-in-law more than 20 years ago.

Ornaments my mother gave to me when she decided she had way too many ornaments. I remembered when she bought them when I was in elementary school.

Dough ornaments my sister made. She wrote the year on the back - 1988.

Grouping the ornaments has made the important ones stand out more - and the trees is still decorated all over.