Christmas Collections

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Why do we sometime turn head over heels to collect certain things? Who knows why a certain something grabs our fancy and before we know it, one turns into two, two into half a dozen and suddenly we have...........a collection. Now I don't have anywhere near a collection such as blog friend Nancy - do visit her if you are into snowmen - they are memorable and utterly adorable.

A few years ago I started collecting what I call my "little uglies". These jester guys are always smiling and I just love the details of their clothing - that's what caught my eye. Being a seamstress, and loving fabrics, brings admiration for even small items such as ornaments. I bring them out at Christmas to hang out with Morgan le Fey and Santa - see previous post - and they make me smile too!

This year other ornaments and glittery things seem to have taken the place of these characters - I've not come across a single one in a store........................looks like my collection is complete!

Now, I won't even start on the Dicken's Village houses..................................that's the collection so many of us started about 20 years ago. They were adorable but drove me nuts trying to figure out the wiring configurations to get them all lit up without having them fall off the mantle, china hutch, or the top of the armoire - I have horror stories to share over hot chocolate if you want to pop over! My little cottages (guess that's why I really liked them - they were cottagey) are worth more now than when new - real live collectors want them, especially the discontinued ones.

They are packed away for now, along with the bottle brush trees, the mirror ice rinks, the town gazebo, the faux snow hills, and all those people scurrying back and forth doing whatever Victorians did at Christmastime - someone else can decide their fate in years to come. They will perhaps become that someone else's collection.