Christmas Tree Ornaments Photo

Christmas ornaments are decorations that are used to festoon a Christmas tree. Christmas ornaments have come a long way from those earlier styles. Ornaments take many different forms, from a simple round ball to highly artistic designs. Ornaments are almost always reused year after year, rather than purchased annually, and family collections often contain a combination of commercially produced ornaments and decorations created by family members. Such collections are often passed on and augmented from generation to generation. Up until the mid 19th century, Christmas ornaments were entirely handmade. Using anything available, homeowners would make decorations out of scraps of cloth, wood, pinecones and so forth. Christmas ornaments first starting appearing on store shelves during the 1870s.