For this year’s A-Z Challenge, I am doing the A-Z of some of my favourite Christmas decorations. I love Christmas and I’ve debated this theme before, and this year I am finally doing it.
Today is day twenty where T equals train.
Why are trains seen as Christmassy? I have no idea but I like them and yes, the ornaments do always remind me of Christmas. This little train goes on one of my Christmas coffee tables in my sitting room. I also have three that have little carriages that all link together.
Do you have a favourite Christmas ornament starting with T? Let me know in the comments 🙂
Is it because they used to set up toy train tracks around the trees in bygone eras? I seem to recall those kinds of images.
We set up a train one year. One of the dogs watched it go around a few times, then grabbed the engine and walked off with it. It was a great moment! Thanks for the reminder.
I love your sparkly train!
Haha I am totally picturing this in my head
I would like to celebrate my tree. It came into the house around 1960, and after about a decade it was my job to put it up, a tradition that continued even after I left home.
When my parents finally departed, i got the tree, and it’s been in my home every Christmas since.
I think a 60+ year artificial tree has earned its sustainability badge, don’t you?
Most definitely!
I think the train comes from the Victorian era when train tracks were placed around the tree. I still have tinsel on my tree. In German it’s called Lameta and I have the German tinsel mixed in with the tinsel from here. The Tinsel I have, from Germany, is old because it is made with lead…yup, lead! I know, but it hangs so beautifully on the tree along with the sparkle of the tinsel made here, it creates a wonderful effect.
That sounds so pretty