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Meet Nana Baubles, the festive ornament collector

Meet ‘Nana Baubles’

the owner of the world’s largest Christmas ornament collection

LOCATION: Swansea, Wales

Sylvia Pope has broken a Guinness world record

with her collection of nearly 1,800 festive ornaments

(SOUNDBITE) (English) OWNER OF THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF CHRISTMAS BAUBLE ORNAMENTS, SYLIVIA POPE, SAYING:"When my grandchildren brought their children here and they saw what I'd done to the ceiling, they were, 'Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.' Every year they can't wait for them to go up. They know that it's coming toward Christmas."

LOCATION: Berlin, Germany

Another Brit, Adam Wide, also clinched a festive record

He's the owner of the world’s largest festive brooch collection

7,929 brooches as of December 2

(SOUNDBITE) (English) OWNER OF THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF CHRISTMAS BROOCHES, ADAM WIDE, SAYING:"A lot of people say to me, 'Why on Earth brooches? What on earth were you doing collecting brooches?' And, you know, there's not really a simple answer to that. It's just I was in the shop. I was looking, as you do, at just some stuff as you go past in the Christmas department and there was just this very small brooch. I thought, that's rather nice - gay man, sparkly thing in a cabinet. So I bought my very first brooch. But as soon as I started buying them and getting involved and interested in brooches, it became absolutely obsessive. It's fascinating."