star or angel/fairy?

after posting the above i thought i'd find a photo of the tree with my oldest grandaughter - i thihk she got to win the fight to put the fairy on the tree that year - 2009.

Mine is a little angel with wings and she is holding a staff with a star on top. I bought her in the corner shop when we lived in Glasgow in 1966! My older daughter was 3 and the baby daughter was 7 months. So lots of memories are attached to her!

We gave an angel bought for DD1's first Christmas in 1986 and a star bought for DD2's in 1990 .They rotate and the DDs know whose 'turn' it is .The other sits lower down that year
Last year I couldn't find them when it came to put them on the tree .I was out of all proportion and ridiculously upset .I ransacked the house and the loft .I decided to put on my big girl pants and make a new star for all three of our houses for this year. Create a new tradition and all that ..
Come June and DH was tidying the garage after DDs' 'stuff'had left for the properties they both bought (yay)He sorted out the accumulation of jiffy bags,Amazon boxes etc and lo and behold he found them in a jiffy bag .
I cannot tell you how pleased I was. We had had a very stressful year up to that point .It felt like a good omen

Mine's a cross between an angel and a fairy too,and she must be 43. I made her from a peg doll, ready painted face. would like to clean her dress but not sure how as it's fixed on. No knickers though, they never occurred to me!

I have an Amish angel, bought 20 years ago while visiting my sister in the US,

I have a lovely Angel bought when DH & I had a large house & real tree, lived there for 20+ years. Went with us when we downsized & now I've moved again (widowed) she's still with me.

What lovely (& funny) memories we all have

My Christmas fairy was bought when I was born 63 years ago. She has real hair and moveable joints. She has been redressed by my Mum a few times. I gave her a new outfit last year but kept the original wing frames

Mine was bought for my first Christmas in 1951. Has had new dress quite a few times and now wears a sparkly mob cap as fairly bald

Nanannotgrandma our Fairy/angel is similar to yours and was made by one of my Aunts 46 years ago for my eldest DD.

A fairy we bought for our first tree after we got married. We've celebrated our ruby wedding this year so she's getting on a bit now!!

Older then mine. I wonder if it was a custom in those days. I was born in November

The historian my comment 'older then mine' meant for you I'm new at this ?

We have a beautiful angel, bought twenty years ago, she has a cream silk dress with gold wings and is holding a string of pearls This year the top of the tree was not strong enough to support her so we had to stick a pencil up her skirt, she really does not look happy.

My 'angel' is at least 50 years old but the tree she tops is 80 yrs old this year, it was a Christening gift to me from my Godmother.

I've got a gold coloured metallic angel on the top of mine purely because none of the fairies ( I have three) would sit properly on the new tree. I've never been a one for stars, simply because we always had a fairy when I was a child.

I guess most of us continue with whichever we grew up with. As a child our tree was always topped with a star as my mother said it represented the star of Bethlehem. She also burned a candle in the window all through the night of the 24th to show that there was room for Christ in our home. All very odd as we were brought up largely without religion and certainly without religious observance, this was at my father's insistence though, my mother
missed her religious family especially at Christmastime.

I still top my tree with a star and light a candle in the window on Christmas Eve (although certainly not all night) and I don't have a shred of religious belief in me.

We have just put our poor old Santa on top of our new, tall tree (we now have not so much a living room with a tree in it, as a tree with bits of living room round it!!). He is three inches from the ceiling, suffering from vertigo, refuses to open his eyes and has been sick twice!

Father Christmas dressed as a fireman. He's a little battered now but has been our lucky charm for over 30 years. After his first Christmas on top of the tree we packed away the decorations to find charred wallpaper behind the fairy lights so nothing will stop him being put on duty every year.

Wee elf and his brother,they are in their late forties

And their Sister is keeping a lookout from the front door lol.

As a child always a tatty 1950s fairy but she had the hobbies of Marilyn Monroe. My mother replaced her sometime in the 90s and chucked Marilyn away. My lovely Mum died in 2013 but her 'modern ' fairy now sits atop my tree.

** hobbies should be boobies !!!! **

I have an angel on the top of our the tree which is only about twelve years old, but I have a plastic snowman which was bought for me on my first Christmas I always fasten him to the tree, like me he will be 68 years old this weekend.

My daughter made a bog roll fairy at school 35 years ago. I wouldn't swop her (either of them) just terrified she might have disintegrated each year as we ceremoniously unpack her.

When first married and strapped for cash I had to wait until payday before Christmas to buy a fairy for our first tree I came home bitterly disappointed as woolies had sold out! Later when I returned from church my hubby had made a silver star from cardboard silver paint and tinsel which is attached to the tree with an elastic band. Although I could easily afford to replace it I never will!!