Now, with 100% more ear:


I think it's much cuter. Maybe that's a Rule of Cuteness: visible ears make things cuter.

It was simple and quick: each ear I cast on 5 sts, knit one row, purled together the first two and last two sts, knit one row, and then p3tog for the end. (In retrospect, it might have been easier and neater to purl the plain rows and do the dec's on knit rows - basically reverse the order - but whatever, it worked.)

You can also see one of my pieces of Christmas flair in the photo - it's one of those little ceramic things with the pegged-in plastic Lite-Brite type lites (except these are little birds) that allow the light of a small nightlight bulb to shine through them. My grandmother had a largeish green Christmas tree of the same genus, with the Lite-Brite peg type lights. I loved it when I was a child and swore I'd get myself one someday. This one is a little house in the base of a conifer tree - you can see the door and windows, which also appeals to my memories of my childhood love of little hidden cozy houses and imagining that fairies or domesticated mice or families of birds lived in tiny secret houses in the woods with twig brooms and acorn-cap dishes on the table.