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A Mantel Sans Greenery

December 22, 2008
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This year, I donated the ugly gold-tipped garland we’ve had stored for 5 years. I used it once and hated it. I usually don’t like fake flora of any kind. Dried flowers? Absolutely. Plastic or silk? Not so much.
Through the lovely Garland Show & Tell hosted by Nesting Place, I saw a charming ribbon garland created [...]

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Der Belsnickel of Pennsylvania Dutch

December 18, 2008
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Perhaps it’s my German and Pennsylvania Dutch heritage that draws me to these rather stern versions of St. Nick.

Whether a chocolate mold under a cloche …

or a detailed hand carving from a thick block of wood, I simply love the old world charm of him — the precurser to our modern jolly Santa Claus.
“Nicholas in furs” [...]

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O Tannenbaum

December 15, 2008
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Our modest little table top tree, loaded with entirely too many ornaments — just the way hubby wanted it.  Believe it or not, he didn’t even put all we had on the tannenbaum. There’s still a bin and a half full.
That’s what happens when ya downsize.  We went from a 7 footer to this cute [...]

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Beautiful Vintage Ornaments

December 8, 2008
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What a lovely score this weekend! Boxes and boxes of pretty baubles.

Five sweet pastel Austrian ornaments. Love the dainty wire wraps. But wait! The box says 1/2 made in Austria — I bet it’s the glass part. No one makes such exquisite glass ornaments as the Austrians.

One box of small vintage silver glass ornaments and one box [...]

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