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Ten-Word Tuesday. The Ornament Giveaway.

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Oyvey. Bossy was going to write a very poignant and meaningful post about her vintage Christmas tree balls and how precious they are to Bossy and her family and blah blah sentimental blah, except Bossy’s power has been out all morning, and there’s nothing like no electricity to put someone off celebrating things vintage.

Plus, Bossy’s husband hasn’t carried the Christmas ornaments from the attic yet, which makes all kinds of sense since Bossy doesn’t have an attic, although the absence of ornaments, even if kept in a crawl space, makes it difficult to feature these ornaments in a post.

But trust Bossy, they are notable. For instance, some of them look like this:

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And some of them look like this:

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And some even look like this:

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OK, Bossy is lying, none of them look like that. But Bossy was feeling sorry for her Polygon tool, which gets little love in Photoshop.

Anyway. What is the opposite of vintage Christmas ornaments in various shapes not polygon?

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That’s correct! The answer is the Christmas tree ball you see above, which is an Omnitech Digital Photo Viewer Ornament. This ornament comes in many styles and stores up to 100 images, and plays them in a constant slideshow on your Christmas tree.

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Here’s the deal: the Omnitech Digital Ornament retails for $10 and is available only at Staples, but Bossy’s friends at Staples would like to offer one of these ornaments to three Bossy readers.

Simply leave a comment below, in ten words please, telling Bossy about your favorite holiday decoration. It doesn’t have to be a Christmas decoration. Bossy will employ her friend the Random Number Generator to select the three winners.

And make sure you check back later today for the most decorative comments on the web.

If you missed last week’s Ten-Word Challenge, click here to read nearly 200 crazy neighbor stories, in ten words of course.

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  2. I’m a big fan of the lights all my neighbors put up on their roofs and lawns. I love to look at them, but I don’t have to put them up or pay the electric bills myself.

    Other than that, my favorite ornament is a handblown glass hummingbird I bought in Poland forever ago.

  12. Green construction paper tree with daughters kindergarden picture on it…

    (Shes 23 now)

  21. I have some ornaments my boys (now 16 and 14) made out of applesauce and cinnamon when they were SO MUCH SMALLER! They still smell like cinnamon and sparkle with glitter! I love them!

  28. My “baby’s first ornament.” A Hallmark kitten in a stroller. My 5-year-old “baby” broke just broke one of the wheels off of it. Still love it though.

  32. The angel on top of our tree every year that my husband made out of tin foil and a napkin from our wedding (it was clean!).

  44. My family gathering for italian dinner on christmas eve then having breakfast once we all stumble out of bed.

  52. I made a Cardinal’s nest for my mom in 2nd grade. We used spray paint and airplane model glue and very tiny little christmas tree ornaments as eggs. Then we attached a little tiny Cardinal to stand on the edge of the next. The nest was then connected to a clothes pin which snaps on to the branch of a Christmas tree. My mom let me have it and I tell my children how proud I was of it every year.

  53. The smashed-up, very used cowboy hat that I perch atop my cowgirl Christmas tree.

    But that’s besides the point. What I really needed to say was your first photoshop ornament looks suspiciously like an olive. Power failure…yeah, right.

  65. I have an ornament that is a snow globe nativity scene, but you plug it in and it goes from white to blue to pink. We call it technicolor Jesus. 🙂

  74. It was the hand-painted clear ball with swirls and a hidden Mickey Mouse design from our best friends. Our nephew toppled the 10 foot tree last year while scrounging ALL the candy canes, and that was the only ornament that broke. Bah humbug.

  77. 3-foot-tall lighted tinsel flamingo. Head moves, wings flap. Target. $45.

    Jenni D, I REALLY want that petrified Santa lizard please.

    (What happened to the numbers on the comments? Technical difficulties?)

  86. pix of my dad as Santa with my 2 boys

    not part of the 10 words but important to note, dad passed away this past May

  92. The last Christmas card my my sent me before she died. Goes on the tree every year! 23 years and I still miss her 🙁

  105. Handmade ceramic bell made by artistic daughter long time ago. A picture would be worth 10 words!

  120. PS, I also have the shuttle Galileo which still plays, “Shuttle craft to Enterprise. Shuttle craft to Enterprise. Spock here. Happy Holidays-live long and prosper.”

    (PS, I was a psych major too, Meg!)

  139. one’s i made when i was little-they fill holes…….(in the tree-you know the empty spots! to many words i know but i had a “that’s what she said!” moment and had to explain)

  146. Shiny Brite ornaments from my childhood in the 40s. Dating myself here, Bossy! Many good wishes..I heart your blog.

  148. Eggbert, the character and the ornament on my tree.
    Every Christmas as a kid we would go tell Eggbert what we wanted while he insulted our parents.

  164. The polysterene santa boot I chewed the heel off, aged 2. (2’s a number right, not a word. Oh, come on!)

    (PS; I also left this comment on last week’s TWT thanks to a sticky mouse and my own stupidity.)

  173. My commemorative John Paul II lawn sprinkler that came out every Easter. Let Us Spray! (Actually, I don’t have it anymore. I gave it to a friend who told me he would either kill me to get it, or kill himself if he couldn’t have it — death was involved either way and the Pope would not have approved).

  174. GIveaways are nice and all but I’m running out to buy one of those NOW.

    Oh – hand-painted bread dough ornaments made by whole family circa 1971.

  189. We have egg ornaments from Salzburg, Austria. They are awesome, and every year I pray they haven’t broken while they were in storage.

  190. I would love to snag (buy) 2 of these for my 2 bosses, but I can’t find them on their website. Any clues?