Wednesday, December 3, 2008

The White House Ornaments

The White House historical association sells a White House Ornament every year that is dated.

In 1990, my Mother began our collection by giving them to each family yearly. When she was called Home in 2000, my dear sister continued the tradition until we each now have a nice grouping of them. I put mine on a small tree for the holidays. I have sixteen of them--two are missing.


Here are two of them that I took close up for you to see. They come beautifully boxed, with a pamphlet telling the history of the President who is commemorated. They have had historical presidents so far.


My Mother loved beautiful things...and she especially loved anything with gold on it. She was always excited to see what the new one looked like. We have enjoyed this tradition for the last eighteen years.

For a sneak preview of the 2008 ornament, you can go to the website, highlighted in the first sentence of this post.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's gorgeous.! love those!

Anonymous said...

I heard you can buy those at www.whitehousehistory.org

sister sheri said...

I love this year's!

Anonymous said...

What pretty ornaments Joan.
Carole

Anonymous said...

I had no idea! They are gorgeous!

Amy said...

Beautiful!!!!!
Amy