Wonderful Christmas Ornaments from Bronner’s

Posted by admin | Articles | Thursday 14 December 2006 12:29 am

By K. Tan -
You can buy Christmas decor and ornaments year round in Frankenmuth, Michigan. There is a place there that is open 361 days a year, named Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland and it is a magical place. They sell artificial Christmas trees, Christmas lights, Nativity scenes, Christmas ornaments, Decorations and collectibles. All kinds of holiday ornaments in this season awaiting for you.

Not only does it feel like Christmas every day at Bronner’s, but also you can attend the Silent Night Memorial Chapel for meditation. I have seen so many wonderful Christmas ornaments for sale at Bronner’s. It seems like they have something for everyone. I know that I have found more ornaments of Christmas there than anywhere.

I have a few Christmas ornaments that fall into the category of super fragile or incredibly old. I still want to display them, but not on my tree where they could be damaged. I have purchased ornament stands at Bronner’s for these Christmas ornaments. I can display them very nicely in the lighted curio cabinet in my den.

My sister buys dated Christmas ornaments every year. She likes to pick out one special dated ornament for every year and place it on the tree. She says it helps her remember all of her blessings. I think that her collection of Christmas ornaments is lovely.

I changed my decorating habits when I started having kids. I used to have very delicate and sedate themes for my tree and mantle, now I decorate with Christmas ornaments that convey a feeling of fun and whimsy. My daughter was with me when I visited Bronner’s when she was four years old. She immediately became enthralled with the pink smiley face ornaments. I was a little taken aback at just how pink these Christmas ornaments were.

I ended up buying those smiley face Christmas Ornaments for her. My son thought that it made our tree too girly and he asked me to take him out to Bronner’s to even the tree out a little bit. He found some odd Christmas ornaments and I told him that he could pick out twelve individual ornaments or one box of twelve ornaments that were all the same.

The Christmas ornaments that my son picked out that year were all individually chosen. He picked out a slice of pizza because it is his favorite food, a taco, a snowman, a multi color round ball covered in sequins and many other colorful and interesting items. The tree was so sweet that year, because my kids had so much fun deciding how everything would be for their specific Christmas decoration.

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Christmas and the Unitarian Universalist

Posted by admin | Christmas | Thursday 14 December 2006 12:10 am

By Zion -
At Christmas, a Unitarian Universalist can feel caught right between Christ and Santa Claus. Most Unitarian Universalists are uncomfortable with the notion that Jesus is the reason for the season and they do not want to elevate the materialism of Santa Claus. Most Unitarian Universalists are left puzzled and perplexed at Christmas. It is important to reflect about Christmas and what you want it to mean in your home.

Community service is a large part of a Unitarian Universalist’s life. A nice Christmas ritual my family has is related to the service of others. My children make a Unitarian Universalist Helping Others box to put money in for the coming year’s donations. We sing Christmas carols as well as lighting up a special Christmas chalice that we made together and make promises about how we will help others throughout the year.

For the most part, Unitarian Universalists respect Christian traditions that celebrate Christmas as the birth of Jesus. Many Unitarian Universalists take Martin Luther King’s birthday very seriously, so why not the birth of Jesus? It is a good opportunity for Unitarian Universalist parents to talk with their children about the teachings of Jesus. Christmas and Easter may be the only times that you do this, but it is important.

Some Unitarian Universalists celebrate the Winter Solstice with some intensity. I have attended many gatherings on this day to celebrate the cycles of the Earth. One family that I know does not celebrate Christmas at all, only the Winter Solstice. They have a big celebration that ends with Sun Shakes made with orange juice and vanilla ice cream.

We do not have a name for it, but each Christmas my family all exchanges names. The idea is that you are supposed to do three good deeds for the person whose name you drew during the coming year. This is a little like a Secret Santa, but it has been altered to fit with our family’s values.

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Fresh Poinsettia Christmas Flowers For Decorations

Posted by admin | Christmas | Thursday 7 December 2006 5:28 am

By Joe -
I was visiting Frankenmuth, Michigan when I came upon a place called Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland. This place was amazing. I had never heard of this place before and saw a bunch of billboards for it when I was leaving Detroit on a road trip. I stopped to see if they had any decorations with my favorite Christmas flowers.

Bronner has had a lot of ornaments and decorations that featured the Poinsettia Christmas flowers. I was surprised because up until then, the only decorations I had found with Poinsettia Christmas flowers were artificial flowers at the craft store. Those do not look very realistic to me.

The selection of Poinsettia Christmas flowers at Bronner’s was good. I bought ten sets of six shatterproof Poinsettia Christmas flowers for my tree. In one afternoon, I had found and purchased the ornaments that I had always wanted and did not even know existed. They are exquisite and so brilliantly red.

I decided that I would come back again before Christmas to see if Bronner has any more Poinsettia Christmas flowers on something that I needed. I am glad I decided to return to Bronner’s because when I did go back, they had a shipment of new silver Poinsettia Christmas flowers holographic light set. The sets only had ten lights per string, so I only bought enough sets to decorate my mantle.

While I was on my way out, I spotted some three-inch glass ornaments on a display near the main entrance. I had not noticed them on my way in. They had Poinsettia Christmas flowers hand painted on them. I bought all that they had on the display and was done with my Christmas decoration shopping trip. My tree and mantle looked glorious that year featuring my very favorite Christmas flowers.

I love Poinsettia Christmas flowers. My mother used to buy a lot of them and place them around the house during the Christmas season. The bright red and the milky white ones both make me remember my childhood and all of the great Christmases that I have ever had.

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