I bought this little ornament in China in 1979. Its face is silk and the rest is hand knitted and assembled. Exquisite workmanship. I bought a box of 8 or 10 of these ornaments, each different. Many I’ve given away over the years, but I have at least three left. I had purchased other wonderful little silk beaded animals when I was in Hong Kong in 1968 and still have some of those as well. I’ll be showing an ornament a day until Christmas.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
That is so pretty! I’m sure lots of effort and love went into making it. Truly worth keeping.
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Wonderful
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That’s a beautiful little ornament, with lots of meaning for you! Thanks for sharing it!
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We have crates of decorations from our big trees, but the little tree is too small. For years, I bought one special (dated) one per year … and then a few years ago, I couldn’t find any to buy. And a bunch of the early ones began to break, Fragile oh so fragile.
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For my Christmas tree in China, I found some beautiful animals made of dyed rice straw — I think I still have some of the fish. The rest of the ornaments were paper snow flakes. I didn’t know I’d have a Christmas tree, but on Christmas Eve, the gardeners from our college showed up with a 5 foot pine tree in a pot! We had a party that night, and, of course, I had the flu. It was fun but a little hallucinogenic because I had a fever…
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Did you save any of the ornaments?
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Some survived the passing of time 😊
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Photos?
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I don’t do a tree 🎄
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