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Old 12-20-2010, 08:48 PM
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Here are pictures of my Christmas collections. I collect Bells and have been given a couple of bells by a really sweet board member and I bought some of the bells that Cute makes! I have a bell or two!!

Then I love angels. I love my Angel choir!

And I love the 50s flocking on the reindeer of that era. I was born in 55 and my mom was an antique collector and dealer so I settled on this collection a long time ago!
I am always adding to it. I find them at junk shops sometimes.

DGS Daymon decorating with the bells
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DGS Devon helping his twin
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DGS Joey decorated the rest of my collections. He did m ost of the work of getting it all out! He had a blast. He was whistling while he decorated!
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I made this angel a few years ago.
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These are a few of my sleighs. I didn't get them all out this year.
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Old 12-20-2010, 09:06 PM
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Wow what a collection! Do you collect only old (antique) bells or also bells from different places?
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Super collection and the best part is the grandkids will remember and treasure them always, I bet.
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Great collections! I love those reindeer too!
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Old 12-20-2010, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Vanuatu Jill
Wow what a collection! Do you collect only old (antique) bells or also bells from different places?
I like the old especially as my mom says- you can't get those any more. They are hard to find.
But I like bells of all sorts. I have hand crocheted ones my grandma made and some friends have made and I like just about anything if it is a bell. I saved a couple of bells my grandpa had sitting on his kitchen window when we cleaned out his house. One is a cow bell. and some of them are swiss bells.
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Originally Posted by Rhonda
Originally Posted by Vanuatu Jill
Wow what a collection! Do you collect only old (antique) bells or also bells from different places?
I like the old especially as my mom says- you can't get those any more. They are hard to find.
But I like bells of all sorts. I have hand crocheted ones my grandma made and some friends have made and I like just about anything if it is a bell. I saved a couple of bells my grandpa had sitting on his kitchen window when we cleaned out his house. One is a cow bell. and some of them are swiss bells.
How special-hope those two great boys always have fond memories of decorating with them-just a thought, but you might take a photo of really special ones and give the background of them so all that isn't lost.
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Old 12-20-2010, 09:55 PM
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COOL!!!
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Old 12-20-2010, 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Vanuatu Jill
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Wow what a collection! Do you collect only old (antique) bells or also bells from different places?
I like the old especially as my mom says- you can't get those any more. They are hard to find.
But I like bells of all sorts. I have hand crocheted ones my grandma made and some friends have made and I like just about anything if it is a bell. I saved a couple of bells my grandpa had sitting on his kitchen window when we cleaned out his house. One is a cow bell. and some of them are swiss bells.
How special-hope those two great boys always have fond memories of decorating with them-just a thought, but you might take a photo of really special ones and give the background of them so all that isn't lost.
Great suggestion Jill. I will have to do that. I know my mom has stories about all the things she has collected and she is always saying now remember this or that and I know I won't! I keep telling her to write it down.
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What wonderful treasures you have. I also collect angels but have no where near as many as you.
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Wow, what a collection! Can't imagine having to put all those out and then put them away again!
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