Christmas Tree Decoration for Fourth Sunday of Advent with ARNE & CARLOS 

Dear Arne and Carlos, I am sitting here knitting on the evening of the 23rd watching this beautiful episode for Advent. I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate the immense light and love you two send out to us, your viewers. I am so grateful to have you two to relax with every few days. Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Merry Christmas! 🎄 ❤

What a delightful surprise to see your most personal, precious holiday ornaments and to hear the stories of their origins. Thank you for so generously sharing your lives with us! I value your knitting and designing skills but you take it to another level with all the added fun. I feel like we are friends, even though we’ve never met!

What a treat that you would let us see your treasured decorations! I think this is one of my favorite episodes! I love the stories and history behind each of your ornaments, just as I too enjoy pulling out our ornaments and remembering the dear people who gave them to us, our children who made them, and the ones I've made also! Thank you Arne and Carlos!

What a beautiful "Light Bulb" ornament. it is painted beautifully!

I love the stories that go with the ornaments. You showed a tiny beaded Angel you received as a gift. It made me smile because I have one my mom made just like it.

Arne&Carlos, the silver tea thing is called a tea strainer. And my grandfather was a gold and silversmith and my family used to have a lot of different tea strainers. I always remember my grandmother using hers when we visited them on a sunday afternoon. Brought a tear to my eye; she died in 1972 and I cared for her on a autumn holiday week from my college; should have gone to a trip to Germany that week, but I preferred to stay with her. My grandmother was more important to me than that excursion trip. And I am still so glad I did, because she died a few weeks after that. Thank you both for this special memory. Maybe a tree in the kitchen with tea strainers would be fun❤❤❤

My husband of 60 years have many of the same ornaments that you have on your tree!! They mean so much-full of memories! ❤

Love how every ornament has a story to tell and you’ve gifted us with your stories. Thank you so much ❤

Beautiful tree with lovely ornaments. All have a story and all of them have good memories. Your niece will always remember how much you loved her ornament.

Decorating the tree is always such a journey down memory lane! 🥰

In the church's tradition Advent Sundays 1,2 & 4 call for purple vestments and candles, while Sunday 3 uses rose/pink. The purple symbolizes the darkness of sin, while wrose/pink symbolizes the joy found in Christ. The Christ candle, lit after sundown on Christmas Eve, is always white and more prominent than the other candles. It can be taller, fatter, higher, etc. I really like your red candle holder. It looks like it's made from large beads that have been glued together.

Your tree is lovely.I have ornaments my kids made when they were little and they still go on the tree. I love the drapes!!😍

I loved the memory you shared of your niece giving you the ornament, with chocolate all over her mouth. That's why it's so wonderful to put up ornaments made by kids, you can recall fond memories like that. And I'm sure it makes the kids very proud to see their creation on the tree

You have some wonderrful memories on your tree. Yes! Definitely put any ornaments made from a child on your tree. They are precious gifts.

Oh those musical instruments are beautiful Carlos. I can see why they are so special to you! Thank you for the visit. Much more fun decorating with others! Love you guys!

Thank you for sharing your beautiful traditions. The stories of each ornament are so heartwarming and inspirational. Turning Carlos’ grandmother’s tea strainer into an ornament and the tribute to Olivia Newton John was so meaningful. 🥰

Thank you for inviting us into your home for 2022 Advent Season embodying the 4 themes of Ad vent JOY, HOPE, LONGING and PEACE.

It's wonderful how you cherish the old ornaments that hold so many happy memories!

This tree captures exactly what a Christmas tree is, so much spirit!

This feels like you are sharing very private moments with us. Wishing you blessings this Christmas.

I love the idea of two trees, one formal and one sentimental. Thank you for sharing your treasured ornaments. The vintage tinsel is beautiful. ❤❤

Idea for broken ornaments: make a smaller, lighted, wooden star (like Carlos made)... with cup hooks all over to hang the broken ornaments. To celebrate our broken/damaged parts/dreams and the blessings of those in our lives.

Decorating a Christmas tree is always a very special time, it’s a time to reminisce, talk about past memories and future plans. Thanks for sharing 👍❤️😊

Love love your Xmas tree. A tree filled with memories and handmade things. I have four grown up children and things they made still appear with their stories. My son when he was 2 years old refused to move past this beautiful pink angel. So sadly we lost him to cancer a few years ago. Many tears have been shed as we put the old tattered angel on place of glory on the top. She is now 40 years old and we hope we can patch her up for a few more years. You two are so talented and funny and I get so much pleasure out of your videos. Stay safe and enjoy.

We only have one tree each year and it is full of memories. Gifts, ornaments we've collected, things we've made and things our children made. Over 50 years of Christmases together. Some of our original balls look like your vintage balls but they aren't glass. We were still at university when we bought them. Our first star was made from the silver paper from a takeout container! We had a few clip on birds that sadly are rather tattered. Our daughter mentioned one year how they brought back fond childhood memories. Now, each year, we try to find her a new bird for her own tree. "Designer'" trees look beautiful but we love our memory tree.

I still have my kids and grandkids ornaments they made.

I love this episode! My parents’ tree eventually got to the point where every ornament was either something someone gave us or something we made…everything from preschool creations to expensive gift ornaments. Every time we decorated the tree, it was like looking through a scrapbook….Thank you for sharing your “scrapbook tree” with us!

I absolutely love the idea of putting together a shadow box of all the beloved Christmas ornaments that have been sadly broken. Makes me regret throwing out some of our broken ornaments. Thanks again for another wonderful Advent episode!!

You have such a beautiful tree. It makes me wish it were christmas. We had the balls with the hole in them when i was a kid. One year i poked my finger into every one of them that i could reach. My mom wasn't happy. Your decorating brought back many memories. Thank you.

Love the tree! We gave our children an ornament every year……when they grew up and moved out they could take their ornaments with them. Then the next year they each gave us an ornament. Whenever we went on a trip we bought an ornament for a rememberance. Now that we are in our 80’s we can look at our tree and enjoy the memories of many trips.

I love having more than 1 tree. I love to fill a crystal vase with the broken ornaments. I can place a candle in the center of the vase or ornaments, and it will glow so beautifully and cause the ornaments to sparkle and shine. It reminds me of the Christmas story of the misfit toys. You don't have to be perfect to bring joy to others while you find a new way to shine.

Love all the stories about your ornaments. I'm surprised you don't put candles on your tree. That is a long-standing tradition for us, as my parents moved to the US from Germany.

I agree with you Arne. Christmas tree ornaments should evoke memories and that includes those made by children.

I loved hearing the stories behind your ornaments. It's always a special time to decorate the tree and remember where they came from and who gave them to us. Thank you for sharing this with us!

I love putting ornaments on the tree that my kids made when they were young. I don't remember when they made them but it so wonderful to reflect on their youthful innocence and the joy they must have had when they made it. I love your tree ornaments and Carlos' grandmother's tea strainer is gorgeous.I hope you both have a wonderful Christmas.🌲

I love a tree of memories. Mine is filled with the same. I cherish mine and cherish you for sharing yours. .mery Christmas from Missouri USA.

I think this may be my all time favorite video. Decorating the tree with you and seeing the ornaments you treasure from childhood, travels, and sharing the stories behind the ones you love and why. You two have touched my heart in the very best way ♥ Thanks you!

Glad to see someone else has an everything tree using fun things with memories. Not necessarily things that were made as Christmas decorations

Thank you for sharing your stories and very special tree with us. I love how you treasure every ornament especially the ones made by children ❤️

I love the door behind you with the beautiful outdoor science with the birds. The light bulb ornament is very beautiful. We have some old ones from my grandfather that are very similar to your family’s. Like you, they are precious to us. Perhaps Arne likes to have your rabbit rattle on the tree as it represents how lucky he is to have you. My family still puts a corn starch ornament that I made in elementary school that was decorated using markers -even though it’s broken and has been glued together. You are very right that putting those ornaments that are handmade or given to you on your tree. To me they represent family and friends and their love. Could you make new or upcycled ornaments from the broken ones? That way they can still be on the tree and you will have both old and new memories of it in one ornament. I don’t remember Arne’s garland but what about knitting with fun fur yarn to make it and it won’t shed all over. You have created a beautiful tree - and not just in looks!

What a fun view of your upstairs Christmas tree. I love all the antique ornaments and the birds. So glad you found Olivia. That tree reminds me of the ones we decorated when our girls were young It had many homemade ornaments as well. Our tree now is decorated with my collection of gold ornaments only. I still have the old ones and will have a second tree next year for those. I hope to have a third tree with just knit ornaments as well. Y’all are such an inspiration. Thanks for giving us still another peek into Arne and Carlos.

That beetle with the tree on top! Thank you for sharing your traditions with us along with your knitting tips and patterns

Like many others, this was one of my favorites. I so look forward to seeing your Christmas episodes. I am 74 yo and I have favorite memory ornaments. I have such a small tree that I only put my different sheep, my icicles (which are like yours), and my knitting related things. I do have two or three spinning wheels too. My special memory of Christmas is the candy making. My parents always started the cooking the week after St. Nicholas day. My husband had never had fresh made marshmallows. So every year my grandmother made him a special tin of marshmallows, some with chocolate coating, some rolled in toasted coconut, and some with candy sprinkles. She warned me that I was not to eat any of his treats. She told me I could make my own. My husband's other favorite was divinity. It has been such a wet and cloudy December here that I have not made any candy this year. Yesterday my daughter-in-law brought me two bags of fresh marshmallows made in her town. I'm set now. Let Christmas begin.

Merry Christmas! Our tree is filled with homemade and hand-me-down decorations. Those trees are always the best with all the stories. Thanks for sharing your stories with all of us.

Ornaments which have a story are precious. Love the bead ornaments, how about a tutorial. 😁

The tree is lovely. My favorite is the little heads of you both with hats and sweaters. I really enjoyed seeing all the ornaments.

That's what Christmas trees are all about...the memories from each and every ornament Thank you so much for sharing yours

God Jul! We Love the ornaments our children made and considered them treasures. Lots of memories on your tree. 🎄

I love the Christmas house Arne, it's still standing and that is better than most houses I see on baking shows. They may look pretty but often fall apart right away. Two handsome princes travel in a Beetle to find the perfect Christmas tree. Love that story.

You should hang some of your favorite ornaments around the house like on door knobs, window knobs, etc. So you can enjoy them all year round.

I Love how you cherish each others memories and favourite ornaments! 🙂❤

Of course I enjoyed advent special ❤️❤️ with Christmas tree's ornaments beautiful memories always go. I remember the music box made of glass with tiny little ballerina in white dress and white ballet shoes. Long time ago I saw it at my aunt. Music was playing, she was dancing and she is still dancing in my heart... Thanks for let me be a part of decorating your tree. Love from Poland ❤️❤️

I love the embroidered tray commemorating the fairytale based on a true story of the Two Princes and their adventure to find the perfect Christmas tree in their Beetle at a gas station ⛽ where they sell Christmas trees. They arrived at the station ⛽ and they found they were all out of trees. They decided to go to Doca so they fueled up their Beetle for the trip about 40 kl away. So on the went in cold icey weather.They finally reached Doca and they found a tree. One of the Princes tied the tree to the top of the Beetle and they started home. Unfortunately the Beetle broke down. They were towed home later.Got home and wow, their TV was broken. The next day they went to town to buy a new TV and then we're able to watch "Cinderella and the 3Nuts" and "Christmas at Downton Abbey." What great story.

What lovely ornaments and memories. I often bought ornaments when on vacation. I have a bell from Red River, New Mexico US. Also have things that are not ornaments but sweet things. Love the idea of a small kitchen tree with vintage kitchen items. Hi from Oregon US.

What a beautiful collection of sentimental treasures! When I left home my little sister made me an angel from some card, a paper doily and a LOT of glitter for my first tree! My sister is now nearly 30 and finds it quite amusing we still get her funny angel out each year. Some things are just special 🥰xxx

I love a Christmas tree with little bit of everything. All the ornaments that have a memory or story attached to it

Christmas tree/memory tree. You're not alone - my tree is saturated with memories! 😊🤗💖🌲

Very nice. Another tip when hanging pretties on a real tree. Cut loops of crochet cotton. When the needles are dry on 12th night you make less mess by snipping the thread

I just love the pink room tree. Our tree is full of memories and homemade beauties, as well. With each ornament you remember its history and share with friends and family. To me that is what the tree should be. Thank you for sharing your stories with us.

I agree, Carlos, that we all need to pray for peace.

Oh… your search for Olivia! Brought tears. We have a similar “dilemma “ at our house. Aaron Carter (who recently passed) also is a precious ornament to us . When he and my daughter were both 14, Make-A-Wish arranged for our family to travel to Boston for his concert. She had cancer, was bald and he allowed us backstage before the show. He was so kind. She celebrates her 35th birthday today and in her developmentally disabled understanding the world she still regards him as her forever friend, who sings every song to her.

I was so touched by your reaction, Carlos, to your grandmother’s tea infuser. Also, Arne’s sincere love for the Olivia ornament. I was so happy you found it. The small balls that are wrapped in satin-y thread that Arne is so fond of remind me of my grandparents’ tree growing up. They had a tree full of those ornaments. Nice memory and one I’d perhaps not ever have thought of again if it weren’t for you two sharing as you have. Thank you. You two have such lovely hearts. Thanks for sharing these objects with us.

So kind of you Arne and Carlos to share your precious memories of your life together through your Christmas ornaments. Some of your ornaments brought great memories of my Christmas’s past, so wonderful,

As a child, my church (Lutheran denomination) had 3 blue candles and 1 pink for Advent. The blue are sometimes exchanged for purple, but my church used blue. The first 2 weeks were blue for hope and peace, week 3 was pink for joy, and week 4 was again blue for love. The Christmas candle was white for us also. I love learning about the different traditions and the meanings behind them!

Just getting a chance to watch this fully. It’s wonderful you two cherish and display handmade ornaments from family and friends. And maybe those broken ones in the box are getting new life by giving you a chance to stop and remember receiving and/or finding them in your travels. What a great show

Loved seeing all of your ornament treasures. I would be interested in hearing about a normal Day in the Life of Arne & Carlos.

How lovely. Today I'm catching up and watching all the advent episodes!

I also have ornaments that I can't throw away either. Loved seeing yours

This is my favorite type of tree, decorated with everything we hold dear and that make us smile, lovely.

You have surely given me a wonderful Christmas gift just to be 'there' as you decorate your Christmas tree. Thank you so much!

This is my favourite kind of tree!! I was very embarassed as a teenager when my Mom hung one of my baby slippers on the tree. It was knitted by my grandmother and is the only thing I have that's made by her. I treasure it now and it goes on my tree every year!!

The white candle is the Christ candle! Celebrating the birth of the Christ.

Arne and Carlos I love your Pinkroom Christmas Tree and agree that items made by children and gifted are the best. Thank you for sharing the holidays with us

Thank-you for sharing your tree with us. So many lovely stories and memories. Our tree is like that, as well. Very special. 💖🎄🤗

This is the best kind of Christmas Tree! Oh the memories each item brings forth?

I too am of the "Christmas trees should be covered with memories" school! Since we are in our '70's, we have smaller trees and everything can't fit, so we trade out from year to year. This year I found a Pink Cadillac glass ornament a la Aretha Franklin of which I'm quite proud. Hopefully we will move from our current home in Northern California to Southern Oregon where kids and grandkids live and we can get a young person to help carry in a bigger tree! Happy Christmas, fellows!

Make a shadow box and put the angels in it. Good idea!

So lovely to see such an eclectic collection of ornaments - your tree decorating sounded like our family's - all the stories and the ornaments from old family trees that bring back so many memories. Lots of laughter and joy.

Beautiful stories with love in each ornament, your lives shared in these ornaments! Another reason Christmas is a special time of year.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful ornaments - I have always treasured ornaments which have special meaning and memories. I am so happy to see your lovely tree!

I loved watching you decorate this tree. Full of memories and treasures from years gone by. Very much how I decorate also. It is always bittersweet to see each and every one. Some from my great grandparents, mom and dad, my children and grandchildren, each very cherished. Thank you for sharing your tree and the ornaments you treasure. 🎄❤️😘

I agree that ornaments that children should be on the tree. My tree has ornaments from all my years of Christmases.

Arne and Carlos, you are such an inspiration. Your love of life is contagious. I was not really a fan of Christmas trees until 2020 when I knitted your Christmas balls. I bought a small tree because my fabulous knitted Christmas balls had to be displayed. Thank you to my favorite, very handsome, 😍Scandinavian princes😉

Your tree, like ours, is a treasure trove of memories. Wonderful!

Yes make pink garland for your pink room. Love your finished tree full of love and memories.

I have so many of the same memory ornaments and garland as you have. Much more meaningful.

Such a wonderful treat to see your ornaments! I love your grandmother’s tea strainer as an ornament on the tree!

I ❤ that room and all the memories behind each ornament. Your tree looks beautiful! 🎄

Loved, loved loved the stories behind the ornaments. What treasures!

I love the Memory tree used to generate the precious memories of times past, places visited small children who are now grown. It is a lovely thing for you both to share them with us. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

A tree filled with memories is the epitome of Christmas. Your tree is beautiful. Merry Christmas to you and your families.

I can't put up a tree anymore because it's too much work for me. I enjoy my daughter's tree on Christmas Day. When I moved into my condo none of my Christmas stuff came with me because there just isn't room for it here. I left behind most of my things and it makes me sad. I really enjoyed watching you decorate this tree and talking about your ornaments so much. I grew up with some of the things that Arne has from his childhood. I especially remember those "half" ornaments, I loved them. And we had skiers and ;pinecones too. My sister has most of the things from our childhood. I have such fond memories from Christmas with my family growing up and from my kids' childhoods. I hold onto these memories more and more as I get older. I don't get to see my grandchildren open their gifts, so Christmas just isn't the same. I can't drive at night, so I don't even get my favorite part of Christmas - going to church on Christmas Eve. Even as a child that was Christmas for me, not the opening of gifts the next day. I loved singing the carols and hearing the story of Jesus' birth.

I think this may be my favourite episode. ❤ Thank you for sharing the stories behind your ornaments as you hung them. So many are similar to ones I remember from childhood and you brought back so many wonderful memories for me. My mother had passed down the ornaments from our family to me and some were even from her childhood. A number of years ago, we had an accident with our tree and two of my favourite ornaments broke and I was absolutely heartbroken. It took me a long time to throw out the broken pieces. I love your idea of an ornament cemetery. I now wish I had kept the pieces as you have even though it was so painful to see them each year. The best moment in this episode for me was to see your Mexican angel. I had purchased one that was almost exactly the same as yours in San Antonio decades ago and had given it to my mother one Christmas. It’s now in my collection and it always reminds me of my mother and those amazing Christmases she and my father gave me for so many years. It’s been many years since they’ve passed and you two have evoked so many happy memories for me with this episode. Thank you so much and best wishes to you both for a very merry Christmas and new year.

What a gorgeous Xmas tree, your house must be so cosy with log fires and the decorations. Have a lovely Xmas and a very happy New Year xx 🎄🎅🎄🎅

Thanks for sharing your memories with us. I always wish I had an audience when I decorate my Christmas tree every year. Like you, I like to share the memories that each ornament evokes. Maybe I’ll take pictures when I take them down and write a little something about them. I forgot to add the VW bug with the Christmas tree decorated with Christmas balls. Two Scandinavian princes went out looking for the perfect Christmas tree, I think.

Thank you for sharing your tree, I love you way you treasure and appreciate each ornament.

Our tree is like your’s every year. Some ornaments are from my parents, some my children made in school, some were gifts and many of them I’ve made over the years. Love to see them every year.

Loved this. We have all manner of memorabilia for the tree. It's lovely.

Love your hand made and antique decorations. My favorite is the half ball that sparkles inside from arne’s family

🎄How exquisite a tree! Trimming the tree brings such beautiful memories of people and places. Ballerinas! Tea! Musical instruments! ❤ Merry Christmas to all!