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I don’t normally cross-promote the Strangers Among Us group blog (even though I think there are some really fun photos and stories there). But today, I want to tip my hat to one of my fellow Strangers contributors, who brought former President Carter to our little blog party. How very cool.

On a tree filled with glass decorations, one of my favorite ornaments is fake glass. I fondly remember making these pseudo stained glass ornaments with my mother and brother in the house where I grew up. In those days, our tree was mostly filled with things that Cliff and I made–blobs of felt, handmade frames with school photos, and melted stained glass. When Jeff and I spent our first Christmas together in San Francisco, my mother sent this ornament along to help start out our new tree.

I never thought that I would be one of those “ornament collectors”, but each year when Jeff and I pull out our boxes of ornaments to decorate the tree, I am taken back to trips we’ve been on or font memories of family members. So, since most of my rabid readers are not in SF, I thought I would share a few of the stories that our tree tells.

I thought I would start with one of our most recent additions. This glass ornament is one of four we brought home from Venice this year. We chose these, because they illustrate a classic Murano glass style where cross-sections of intricate glass rods are fused and shaped. We found this particular ball on the Venetian island of Murano, where a glassmaker described the uniqueness of each piece and how the different colors and shapes are achieved.

Time gets away from me each December. My excuse for not posting in over a week? Well, I did have a photo show, been decorating, doing Christmas shopping EARLY (well…earlier), went to a Christmas party, working on some photo projects, loading up my iPod with Christmas music.

But the house is beautiful, once again. And I’m in full Christmas spirit. And I’ll be catching up on some missing posts as the week rolls along.

Cheers.