A few photos

Some more photos of Christmas stuff.

I ran out to the pharmacy for more of the vitamin gummis I use and also stopped at the Hallmark store, and found this ornament hard to resist:



It's a little hard to see but it's a version of the old P.D. Eastman book "Are You My Mother" - the open book, with the final lines of the story written on it, and the baby bird and his mother sitting in the nest.

That story was a favorite of mine when I was a kid ("You are not my mother. You are a SNORT"). I seem to remember that the library in my town even had an edition translated into French and we got it out once or twice and my mom had a go at reading it to me (She learned scientific French as part of her Ph.D. work but wasn't super fluent).

So yeah. As I said Christmas makes me nostalgic and longing to capture the things that I remember from my childhood that were good.

I also got another Snoopy ornament. Because Snoopy just goes with Christmas, at least for this Gen-Xer.



You can also see one of the mock-Scandinavian ornaments there, and a little bit of the turquoise alicorn I got a year or two ago at one of the antique shops.

And to match the alicorn? A white reindeer, from the same company and in the same style, found later at that same shop:



(They may even originally have come from the person, and if so, it makes me happy to keep the two together a while longer).



And a beaded snowflake - from that same antiques shop. (The Christmas ornaments they had, at least the fairly recent ones like these, were super inexpensive, like a buck or two each).

And more:


I also set out my Nativity set




(Heh. Furby photobomb)

And arranged a few of the Christmas critters around:





And yes, that's Krispie again, this time with her big sister, Merry Treat: