To be gutted about breaking this (photo)

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To give some perspective I have been at a low ebb cos have just had Norovirus & am on immunosuppressants which results in me making heavy weather of these things.
Just as I recovered, DD got it and I was awake most of the night on Monday when she spewed up all over her bed, carpet and hair-yuk!

Tonight I really wanted to get our tree decorated cos I had prioritised posting pressies and cards & I have just shatttered this bauble my Mum bought ( from the 50’s or 60’s?) which was one of a pair.

Mum loved Xmas & made it so special. She had such a great sense of fun & actually I don’t have much of hers but putting her baubles out reminds me of her so I just could have howled. Don’t even no how I dropped it.

Anyway if anybody happens to have one that they would like to sell or has seen one that I can buy somewhere I would be so grateful and if you don’t well thanks for reading anyway.

*know not no!

Oh poor you, OP!

I really sympathise. First Christmas with DC1 and the expensive memento bauble of our honeymoon got smashed - I cried buckets too. In the end it's just a "thing" but you can't help but invest memories into things, and I was really sad about it.

Now the other "special" ones just get admired in their boxes and never make it to the tree. Too many animals & children who could destroy them, and I am scared!

Hope your week looks up. Take heart - at least you have posted presents and cards. I haven't ostrich head in sand

Darling, it's not the bauble that matters, it's what it means to you.

Your memories of your mum are here forever.

You can find something else to remember her by.

NoSquirrels- poor you too!
Flimp- thanks for your kind words. I had terrible trouble getting my thread to post & had to re-start it but I see that on second attempt I left out that Mum died when I was 13 & I don’t have much of hers .

I know I am being silly and I should be able to rely on my memories but I find it increasingly hard to remember her-then ocasionally someone will say something & it triggers a memory.

If you haven't thrown away the shards yet can you get a little glass jar with a cork stopper and put them in? Then wire around the lip of the jar and hang on tree as a new bauble

Like this kind of thing

HerRoyal -That is a brilliant idea!Than you! Why didn’t I think of it? I have put the shards in the kitchen bin (DD always forgets her slippers) but I will have a careful rummage to see what I can salvage. In the meantime I am scouring T’internet!

Where do you reckon I could scource the jar-Lakeland?

The bauble was about 9cm across. I know it was expensive at the time - my Dad told me she was evasive when he asked her how much it cost!
He didn’t really mind!

A small glass spice jar would do, with a ribbon around the rim.

I broke the last of my childhood baubles about three years ago, and the kids looked at me as though I'd gone mad as I sobbed

This type of thing

They are expensive; there must be cheaper alternatives, but the curve would be great for a hanging ribbon

That's a brilliant idea! Craft shops sell nice glass jars with cork stoppers and the like.

Or use something like this

I have just been given some old baubles. I will look if there is anything similar to yours.

Oh they have those clear fillable baubles in Home Bargains, 4 for a couple of quid!

Hi Maryz! Remember talking to you on the thread about poor little Charlie. Aagh sorry about your baubles too. Those jars do look good.

*She got- yes we do have a craft shop here ( a bit rural) so will take a look.

Cracker- that is so sweet of you. Not heard of Dealz but thank you

You lovely people- so many helpful and thoughtful suggestions. You have cheered me up so much.
Sandgrown - Thank you!

Well I have managed to rescue the shards- had taken the precaution of putting them in a thick plastic bag.

Could you glue the larger pieces (or even just the top part) to a bauble of the same size and colour? Kind of like a mosaic. It could then hang on your tree again.

You can still use the smaller pieces for the jar and retain as much of the bauble as possible.

Yes Yellow - that’s another good idea. So many inventive & creative people on here!

If you have a PC with chrome, save the photo, right click and you can search Google for similar images. You may find one on eBay or similar that way.

Sorry to be a party pooper, but I can't imagine a glass jar able to take a 9cm bauble, that would be light enough for a Christmas tree branch. Maybe a plastic one?

So sorry you broke something so precious to you. Maybe save all the shards are see if you can have a glass smith turn it into a beautiful new ornament?

Good points Foo.
Am off to bed & will give this some more thought.
Thanks all. Night night & good luck with all your Christmas shopping & final preparations