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Once again playing catch-up on our yearly holiday ornaments…

It only took me six years to finally get around to printing out a picture to put in the 2017 ornament for our then-new kitty-boy (IIRC purchased from Cost+ World Market).

2021 was a big year — Roland changed their professional name to Robin Flanagan when they were able to quit their office drone job and start freelance writing full-time, thanks to Dyskami Publishing! The ornament includes the covers for BESM Multiverse and Absolute Power vol. 1 & 2. Custom ornament from (OwlThatMatters) on Etsy.

For 2022, I wanted to buy an ornament from a Ukrainian artist, and I found this beautiful piece by (SoftCloudUA) on Etsy.

In Feb. 2023 Covid, RSV, and substandard hospital care caught up with Mom :-(. At least she’s with Dad now. Custom ornament from (giftyave) on Etsy.

2023 extra: Not our “yearly” ornament, but this one was just too cute to pass up! Highly customizable ornament from (HomeSweetO) on Etsy.

And we thought 2016 was a dumpster-fire of a year…

In 2017, our old kitty-boy Fuzzy crossed the Rainbow Bridge. It took less than two weeks before deciding that a kitty-less home was unacceptable, and we adopted a new kitty-boy, Geo (the name his previous people gave the shelter, and none of us came up with an alternative). Or, as he’s more commonly called, Boo. In retrospect, we probably should have named him Chewey. 😉 (2023 edit: It only took me six years to finally get around to printing out a picture.)

For 2018, we picked up a Spider-Man ornament somewhere and decided to call it good. Again, no photo yet.

2019: Custom “It wasn’t all bad…” ornament from Etsy (JustFollowYourArt).

2020: Another Etsy ornament, “A Year to Remember Forget” (LovelyCuteStudio). The year was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Another catch-up post.

2013: The scroll-work is from the header image for Roland’s “Weaver’s Knight” story, to commemorate his web serial.

2014: Cinnamon stick bundle with brass bell (photo pending). The bell reminded me of a string of “Bells of Sarna” that hung in the house for most of my childhood. Mom had had emergency heart surgery earlier in the year, so when I saw this one at Dragonmarsh it seemed a good ornament for the year.

2015: None of us could think of anything remarkable for the year, but I didn’t want to skip it. So, I went as plain as I could manage — black text in Times New Roman.

2016: It was tempting to go with the popular Dumpster Fire for this year, but instead we went a little more subtle. I couldn’t find a weeping Statue of Liberty, and all of the “Weeping Angel” versions of the statue were snarling, so we just went with a Weeping Angel.

When we went to set up the tree this year, I realized I hadn’t made notes for the last few ornaments! So, here they are.

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Another category is being added to the Relics: Humor :-). Over time I will be taking emails that I’ve collected over the years and posting them here, dated when I received the original unless otherwise noted. That way, I can share the joy instead of having these things buried in my email archives. They will all be categorized as “humor” and tagged with whatever else applies, like “cats” or “yule” or such. Enjoy!

(crossposting to morgan_gw and morgan_gw2)

As we decorated the tree last night, Dylan realized he was a few years behind on ornaments. Today, we took steps to remedy that, ordering three ornaments from CafePress. I turn the keyboard over to Roland for the explanations…

Courtesy cut…

And finally…2008’s holiday ornaments (crossposting to morgan_gw and morgan_gw2):

Gold heart, purchased while on our belated honeymoon (aka our garlic-moon) in February, at the Heart Beat of Big Sur. It’s kind of hard to tell from the picture, but it looks like a heavy glass.

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2007’s holiday ornament (text copied from my Yule Stuff post on LiveJournal):

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2006’s holiday ornament: Let The People Rule Ornament

The Democratic party retook Congress. That didn’t turn out as well as we’d hoped, but at least it blunted the single-party rule we’d had for years.

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2005’s holiday ornament: Silver star with phoenix rising (formerly at elfwood.com/art/m/e/meghanann/phoenix_rising_forbritt.jpg.html, by Meg Davenport) — hope is returning :-).

Also, purple and gold magic wand, since the colors are Mardi Gras-ish, as a Katrina memorial (photo pending).

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