I have a very large pine cone in gold paint that Mum picked up when we lived in Wales in the 1970s. On a very long 'stem'. As kids we made paper chains, each end was sticky so we could loop any colour we liked. If they fell apart a little glue was found. No 'calendars', these went by us. We had a pillow case ...... and I remember the walkie talkie doll falling over in the early hours
. It wasn't the doll I wanted
as she has short curly blonde hair, the 1 I wanted had long dark hair. Sadly Dolly is in pieces as the elastic snapped in the Summer ....... still she is 64 years old
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Our rooms are long and narrow so no good for ceiling decorations and don't know where the tree will stand as we've moved furniture around this year