Handmade Dark Blue Beaded Christmas Spider Legend Christmas Tree Ornament Boxed

Hello, you're looking at a handmade beaded Christmas spider ornament. The Eastern European story of the Christmas Spider explains the origin of using tinsel to decorate Christmas trees. A widowed mother struggled to provide for her children, and they lived in a small hut with a dirt floor, trying to make ends meet. One day, a pinecone took root in the floor of the hut and grew. When Christmas Eve arrived, the tree had grown, but they could not afford to decorate it. Early the next morning, they woke up to see their tree covered in spiderwebs. As the day's first sunlight streamed through the windows, the webs sparkled like gold and silver. The spider measures about 1 inch at the center and about 2.75 inches wide, and the box measures about 3.25 x 3.25 inches. Condition-wise, the ornament is preowned but in excellent condition and comes in a folded paper box.