What's on top of yours?

Dirine - I thought the same!

33 years ago my daughter made The Bog Roll Fairy- it hasn't missed a Christmas at the top of our tree.

I have an 'angel' that was made (not by me) from a nylon stocking. Apart from its wings it is naked with a scrumptious bottom. My daughter calls it my bum fairy!

A strange fairy/ elfie person. DD gave it to us years ago so we can never replace it

We always have Barbie, with one of her beautiful dresses!

I have a 69 year old fairy with a paper dress, sometimes bought an angel or star but she still sits in the tree instead of on top

Garden gnome

Bathsheba and JackyB we did too at home - I’d forgotten all about it! Thankyou both for that lovely memory!
We have a quite tatty angel made by DD (now 35) at playgroup, fixed many times and I wouldn’t part with her for a pension!

Always a star!

My tree isn't decorated yet but how about some pictures of toppers??

Hate is too strong a word methinks.

I dislike seeing things on tops of cupboards and wardrobes gathering dust!.

Direne - I thought that too when I read it
I hate things on the tops of cupboards and wardrobe but DH doesn't seem to mind [grrr]

A very cute, life like robin

I put a star on top of mine. I'm also very lazy, I bung the tree into a large fabric bag and chuck it in the cupboard under the stairs, fully decorated until next year. How bad is that?

Ooooo JackyB we had one too! A hard plastic doll whose legs didn’t move, but her arms did and she had a blonde doll wig. She was dressed in a tulle (although I am sure it was called Tarlatan in those days!) with tulle and glitter wings with a piece of skinny tinsel wrapped round as her halo (?) and a beautiful hair grip with a diamanté star as a wand. The wand was held in place with a rubber band and so was she - definitely no pants though! My mother redid her outfit when she deemed it too dowdy (dusty?). Until last year I had been very proud of my Gisela Graham angel but she took a nosedive off our new tree and lost her wings last year and at that point I found I was the only person who liked her - everyone else felt she was quite malevolent!

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Completely off subject but when I saw this post's title I immediately assumed it was going to be about things people put on top of fridge freezers and wardrobes. Sorry, DH has been irritating me recently by cluttering storing things on same - must be affecting me more that I realised. As you were. (A fairy or star for our family).

We have a star we made ourselves as it was difficult to find one big enough for a big tree. Both of us grew up with a star at the top of the Christmas tree, so no arguments there. I still have the one from my childhood's Christmas trees, sometimes I hang it up in a window, just to have it out again.

Gave our Angel to my d had it for forty years from woolies have a star now. My d has put away to keep as a antique I think.

I would like a fairy, but have never found one I liked

My grandson had his Action Man at the top of the tree for years.

The year the last home made star fell to pieces, I was given a gift by a family I had helped. It was a chubby, smiley angel, with the message ' to watch over you, as you have watched over us'. 20 years on, she still does.

50 year old tatty fairy made for me by an Aunt for my first Christmas tree when I got married.

When we first married money was tight i had to wait until a few days before Christmas to buy something for the top of the tree alas woolies had sold out i was so disappointed. I had to go out the next day when I came back hubby had made a star from cardboard silver paint and a piece from a decoration. 41 years later it still takes pride of place as nothing could ever replace it.

I realised yesterday I haven't put anything on the top of our main tree - its taken me all weekend to put them up and I didn't find the sparkly star we usually have so it's a bit bare.