Ornament Anecdotes: Day 9

Not one of the glitzy-er decorations on the tree, but I keep it around, because 1. it is virtually unbreakable, 2. I did the wood burned designs on it when I was 13 years old or so (Girl Scout craft) and 3. being wood, it has an old fashioned appeal.

The first Victorian ornaments were paper.

I bet the second ones were made of wood!

Why my name has an "h" in it?

To Canadians and Europeans, it is THE spelling of that name.

To everyone else I explain, "it's the French spelling".

I was born in Belgium, in a Catholic hospital and the nuns automatically spelled my name that way on the certificate.

Funny that I married someone named Thompson,

where the "h" is also silent!