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Mendy's Crystal Tree with
garlands and bubble lights.
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Hearts of every color and
size on Mendy's tree devoted to just
hearts!
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Radko Finials displayed on
a mantle in front of a Radko picture.
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One of the Department 56
Christmas villages is displayed in Mendy's
kitchen.
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Whoa! How cool is this
room.....lots of finials on the mantle, smaller trees full
of Radko....all a Christmas ornament lover's
paradise!
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This garland, draped over
a hall tree is full of just 'package' ornaments, from Radko,
Breen and Slavic Treasures.
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Another tree devoted to
Radko ornaments with the D56 Dickens village
underneath.
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A beautiful display of
swags, finials and trees full of what we all love....glass
ornaments!
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This mini upside down tree
is decorated with Radko finial drop
ornaments.
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This is Mendy's
"Traditional Tree," decorated with ornaments given to her by
family and friends. All are dated when she receives them,
dating back to the 1950's!!
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Mendy has a large
Patriotic collection that she displays above her kitchen
counters.
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More of Mendy's Patriotic
collection.
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Gary and Barbara have been
collecting glass ornaments during their entire 47 year
marriage........this tree shows it!
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This is the right view of
their largest glass tree. A Barcana Menawa, ornament
decorating tree.....great for all sizes of ornaments. Gary
and Barbara made the scene houses under the
tree.
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A 4 foot tree displayed on
top of an antique school desk, is full of antique ornaments
and garlands.
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Barbara loves to decorate
the dining room chandelier with just fruit and vegetable
glass ornaments.
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About 8 years ago, they
started a collection of antique santas, interspersed with
Santas they have collected over the
years.
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This is the other side of
the book case that is dominated by Santas at
Christmas.
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The antique shelf in the
living room is decorated with just Denise Calla for House of
Hatten ornaments.
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The antique buffet in the
kitchen is now decorated with antique Santas year
round.....as well as wax figures on the tomato cage "tree",
on the left.
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In another corner of the
kitchen, stands an 8 foot alpine tree completely decorated
with just light covers from Old World Christmas and a few
from Midwest.
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Gary was in the Coast
Guard and stationed in a lighthouse with Barbara...nice duty
if you can get it! They now decorate his office in a light
house theme, so of course the holiday tree is lighthouse
themed as well!
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Their collection of Old
World night lights sits atop the glass china cabinet in the
dining room.
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A victorian tree adorns a
corner of the master bedroom.
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Margaret displays mostly
freeblown Slavic Treasures bugs and frogs on this unique,
upside-down tree. See below for close-up views of the
ornaments displayed on this tree.
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Here is a close-up of the
bottom of the tree...note the Victor Alien Head garland and
those very rare Slavic vases.! Hey!
There's....CAT!!
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Looking closely
we see lots of ornaments from Slavic, Asian Treasures
and Larry Fraga.
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Margaret has quite a few
treasures on this tree! Check out the Cane ornaments from
Slavic and the Web Weaver! The Traditions' 2001 Event Santa
cane is front & center in this picture too!
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Lots of inaugural year
Slavic freeblown pieces in this picture. We love how
Margaret used colored lights on this tree to set off the
brightly colored ornaments.
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Isn't it great how almost
all ornaments can be displayed together, even when they are
made by different artists.
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More freeblown closeups.
Note the Slavic "Space ornaments" grouped together with
Victor's Aliens and Sea Dragons.
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Victor, Asian and Slavic
go really well together. On the left of the tree, Margaret
has the very rare Slavic Grecian Tabletop
set!
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Candy does 2 Patriotic
trees, one feather tree full of glass
ornaments.
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.....the other full of
vintage style ornaments.
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Candy displays these
Santa's in this cabinet all year. She has quite the
collection and adds to it as often as she
can!
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This is a closeup of the
top row of the Santa cabinet. Mostly these are Walnut Ridge
Santas, but mixed in you will find "hard plastic" vintage
Santas and circa 1950's to new Christmas
pins.
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This is a closeup of the
second row of the Santa cabinet.
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Candy, like a lot of us,
does an Alpine Tree full of just Old World light covers. We
are always on a quest for older light
covers!
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Never fear, Candy has more
Santas, these are mostly vintage and so cool, that we took
closeups of all the shelves for your drooling
pleasure.
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Row one filled with
vintage Santas, lamps, old light bulbs and holiday
pins.
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More vintage hard plastic
and celluloid Santas and holiday pins.
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Are you wishing this was
your collection yet?
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Yes ......another Santa
cabinet!! The cabinets alongside this desk are mostly filled
with miniature Santas. But mixed in you will also find a
collection of old and new (last 15 years) figures that
"spoke to her" when she bought them.
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This is the other side of
the desk.....can you believe how many there
are!?
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The top part of the desk
is decorated with vintage Santas.
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This small wall shelf
holds Candy's treasured limoges Santas.
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Candy's Valentine tree is
always a favorite. Surrounded by antique hankies and 1950's
hard plastic Valentine collectibles, it's the perfect
Valentine display.
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Marilyn Greenfield's
wonderful Denise Calla Santa collection is perfectly
displayed on her mantle.
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Marilyn's Old World
Christmas Santa night lights never looked so good grouped
all together!
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Jackie Byrne's living room
showcases her bird and snowflake tree!
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Jackie creates all the
snowflakes herself and pairs them with Old World Christmas
glass birds.
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Mike Cindrich collects the
Slavic Treasures beautiful wildlife animals. As you can see
his tree is a tribute to these creatures that deserve our
protection as well as our admiration!
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A close-up view of Mike's
wildlife tree.
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Jenny's 14 foot tree is
100% decorated with PIG ORNAMENTS!!
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Jenny celebrates Hannukah,
but that does not stop her from collecting ornaments or
displaying them in her home! Here is a closeup of her pig
ornaments.
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......And yes, on the
front entry doors to her home.......there are 2 Pig
Wreaths!!
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Pat D's staircase in her
beautiful home.
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Pat D's tree is a labor of
love full of ornaments she has collected on her travels from
all over the world, including Slavic Treasures, Hallmark,
handmade, Radko, Polonaise and Old
World.
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Jesus just loves his
Halloween! Checkout all of those hanging bats, skull and
scary pumpkins!
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Shanna Judson has a huge
collection of plush Pooh figures and a tree she devotes to
Pooh ornaments, this is the left side of the
tree.....
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.....and this is the right
side of Shanna's Pooh tree!
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Shanna also decorates a
wreath with her Pooh ornaments.
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One of Debi's favorite
trees....a feather tree full of antique ornaments and
garlands, decorated with vintage paper houses on batting
under the tree.
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Closeup of the vintage
paper houses and churches under Debi's antique ornament
tree.
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Shanna's Easter cleverly
put a lime green feather tree in a rabbit bucket and
decorated it with vintage chenille ornaments..how cute is
that!
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Jana Harrington from
Boston MA, Mini Kitchen Tree.
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Dan Rice's Frogs and Bugs
tree, mostly by Slavic Treasure--1999.
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Candy Zail's Easter
display on a feather tree that is perfect for all of the
holidays!
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Candy's collects hearts
from all of the glass ornament lines to decorate her feather
tree--isn't that a great mini red glass bead
garland!
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Joo Nam Tan from Singapore
goes all out for the Holidays! He calls this Santa's
Workshop, with lots of toys and Winnie the Pooh
collectibles.
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Joo Nam's main tree is an
8' Scandinavian Pine decked with more than 600 glass
ornaments, mostly from Old World
Christmas.
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An Alpine Tree decorated
with Old World Christmas light covers is a focal point of
this room during the Holidays!
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Close up of the light
cover tree.
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Yet, another example of
how this feather tree translates to all of the holidays.
Patriotic ornaments look fabulous on this
tree!
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Scott Smith, an avid
collector of Slavic Treasures bugs and frogs has designed a
unique and attractive display case for these wonderful
creatures........those are the Slavic animal heads at the
bottom of the case.
Click on the picture to see a larger
image!
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Scott Smitt has also
designed these ornament hangers for his bug and frog
collection!
Click on the picture to see a larger
image!
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Scott again! Don't you
just love all these great Halloween pieces!
Click on the picture to see a larger
image!
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More Scott Smith design
work!
Click on the picture to see a larger
image!
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Gary and Barbara Thomas
are collectors of lighthouse ornaments and do a tree in
their home office. Gary served in the Coast Guard at Point
Hueneme in California, and had Lighthouse
duty!
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Yet another one of their
lighthouse trees!
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A really charming display
of the Old World Christmas Night Lights.
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Dan Pitot's Victor tree is
the envy of many Victor collectors!
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Dan Pitot also has an
enviable Halloween collection including many vintage pieces,
ornaments and reproduction collectibles.
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Debi's 4 foot Halloween
tree in the parlor of her home.
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Candy's 3 foot tabletop
Halloween tree.
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Margaret Hick's amazing
Halloween tree!
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This is a very elaborate
Creepy Hollow display by one of our serious
collector's!
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Another view of the Creepy
Hollow village.
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Margaret Hicks' Front
Door
She and her grandchildren cut these tree/package patterns
out of poster board that glowed under black
light.
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Debi's Vintage Collection
of antique beige/gold balls and Santas.
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Fruit Tree.....displayed
on a tomato cage turned upside down and welded together at
the top.
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Debi has been collecting
Denise Calla's ornaments by House of Hatten for over 15
years.
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Judy Taylor's Beaded
Garland
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Judy's Finial
Candlelabra
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Judy's nod to the
Millennium Celebration!
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Judy's Christmas
Mantle
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Judy's Radko
Tree
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Judy's Valentine
Tree
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Dan Pitot's Arch
"Tree"
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Dan's Halloween
Tree
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Dan's Living Room Trees
and Displays
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Dan's all Glass
Tree
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Janice Berkow's Halloween
Tree & Home Display
She has fantastic taste and is a real Halloween folk art
aficionado.
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Donald & Darrin are
wine lovers and so decorate their light fixture with many
different grape ornaments!
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Donald & Darrin's
light covers on an alpine tree.
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One of Donald &
Darrin's glass ornament trees!
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Debi's Halloween mantle
with black garland and OWC Halloween glass light covers.
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Debi's Halloween
mantle.
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Debi's 4' black Halloween
glass tree and mantle.
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Cathie's glass bird
ornament Christmas tree.
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Jason Walcott's display of
one dimensional Halloween paper Halloween pieces.
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Jason Walcott's display of
Halloween buckets.
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More of Jason Walcott's
Halloween collectibles are on display in his
home!
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Shanna is determined to
collect all of the Slavic Treasures bugs and frogs! Don't
they look awesome all displayed together on this black wired
tree!
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