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Rhonda 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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Vanuatu Jill 12-20-2010 09:06 PM
Wow what a collection! Do you collect only old (antique) bells or also bells from different places?

magpie 12-20-2010 09:14 PM
Super collection and the best part is the grandkids will remember and treasure them always, I bet.

CarrieAnne 12-20-2010 09:22 PM
Great collections! I love those reindeer too!

Rhonda 12-20-2010 09:31 PM
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.

Vanuatu Jill 12-20-2010 09:41 PM
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.

amandasgramma 12-20-2010 09:55 PM
COOL!!!

Rhonda 12-20-2010 09:56 PM
Originally Posted by Vanuatu Jill
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.
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.

T-Bones mom 12-20-2010 10:57 PM
What wonderful treasures you have. I also collect angels but have no where near as many as you.

scowlkat 12-21-2010 01:19 AM
Wow, what a collection! Can't imagine having to put all those out and then put them away again!

Rhonda 12-21-2011 11:03 AM
This is a better thread with better pictures of all my Christmas Collections. This was last year but you can see all my Angels and my bell collection as well as my sleighs. On the radio you can see my silver reindeer I had mentioned as missing in a bin I haven't found yet when I talked about them on my reindeer thread from this year's decorating. I didn't get all the Angels out this year but I did let my DGD Rachel put out what she wanted to on my shelves.

Just thought I would let you see the pictures from last year. They are better pics than this years.


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