Ornaments That Keep on Giving

Wondering what to do with all your Christmas ornaments now that the festivities are over?

Don’t throw them out! Yes, you can recycle them to use next year, but FIRST here’s a nifty idea to give them a second life: turn them into earrings!

These adorable little matryoshka glass ornaments are vintage 1950s, and travelled all the way to me in the Antipodes from Russia with love.

Battered and scratched as they are, they are still shiny like sweets, too delicious to be put away yet. I don’t know who delighted in them first, but I’ll be hanging them again and again – on ears as well as trees.

That’s what I call ‘tricycling’!

An array of vintage 1950s Russian glass Christmas ornaments, found on eBay.