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Ornament

Every year I try to add one or two purchased/homemade ornaments to my tree a year.  I love putting all the ornaments on the tree and having a story for each one.  And I do.  This year as Mike helped me decorate my tree I made him listen to each story.  

 This year I hadn't picked an ornament and I have no burning desires/ideas to make one.  As we browsed Renegade, I initially saw one, wanted to think about it, and by the time I was ready to go and went back for the ornament it was sold out.  East Grove Stamp Co. made one batch of the ornaments for this year.  I originally had my eye on this one.  Lesson:  buy it when you originally see it.  I like to think about purchases though.

 After thinking about the ornament for awhile I still thought it would be fun to get one (albeit a different one) because now it definitely has a story.  I chose this one: Merry & Bright.  And I'm getting it personalized because for $1.50 why not?  And I got 15% off since I picked up their business card at Renegade.
2015 Ornament
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