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Christmas Tree with a Sputnik feel

Good Morning Everyone!   Jean here. Where has time gone?  We all keep asking the question.  Do you remember being a kid and the time went  agonizingly slowly during December? Not anymore, seems like I just washed the Thanksgiving dishes and we are opening the Christmas gifts!   I was alive in the late 50's so I have a treasure trove of memories.  Things like the aluminum Christmas tree complete with the rotating light and making Sputnik*  ornaments from foam balls and toothpicks with glitter or paint. (* Russian Sputnik satellites sent into orbit during the late 1950s. Literally "fellow wanderer" in Russian)   Those red cellophane wreaths (anyone remember??!!) and train displays under the tree.   My In-laws actually waited until the (5) kids went to bed on Christmas Eve to put up the tree, do a full blown train display platform and assemble gifts! They must have had far more energy than me!! That crazy Sputnik inspired me to creat...