Christmas gift.......

Our Christmas was moved to Sunday.  The Chicago kids still had a few problems getting here as the front left Iowa and moved over to Illinois. We had a great turkey dinner with the dressing and fixings that go with that.  My wife is a great pie maker so we had pumpkin and mince meat pie.  Our family is down to six now with two others that didn't make it here from Maine.  It was a good meal and afterwards we exchange gifts.
I received this one gift from the brother-in-law and his wife which confused me at first.  The sister-in-law has a history of buying great buys after Christmas then sharing the bounty the next year, so when you get a gift it could be an expensive thing but not to her and her husband as they get it for such a discount.
As I opened this gift, I was tired, and I thought, oh boy, what thing did I get stuck with here? It took a while to focus in to see what it really was, then I was all smiles. She had found something to add to my addictive collection.

I had seen these in stores before but I only buy the discounted price ones, so I never bought any like these.  As you can see, each is individually boxed and she must have hit a great sale.

My knowledge of what is going on with the industry of making glass blown ornaments is being shared by me way too often but here is some more that I have learned.  The package of each says they are glass painted ornaments and this is true.  They have developed a way to apply and fire glass paints onto a plastic-like form.  It is the best I can get of almost authentic, glass blown ornaments.   I won't whine about it anymore. There are still glass blown out there, but the process has been modified and that will do.   These won't be collectibles, but they do represent a time of years gone by.

This one makes me smile.  She is one hot penguin girl.  I have the guy and I have her all dressed up with her purse and necklace. There are things in her hair and a nice pink bow to make her fancy.  I think that it is lipstick being depicted there too.   What a hoot!!! I can't figure it out if they are giant ear rings or just plain ear muffs, but she has something on her ears.

We didn't get all of our trees up as soon as we should have, and you know why, but we will leave them up for a while. I will probably go ahead and put these on my little tree.  I am scouting for a bigger tree for next year.  Mine is a three foot.  I hope that I can find a four or five foot one now. 

We will have very cold weather all week so I don't know when we will get out again.  My parents home was a warm 40 degrees when we visited it.  I turned everything up to 50 degrees to keep the plaster from cracking and I partially drained back some of the water out of the pipes.  I miss the three people who lived there as it is such an empty house now.  I scooped a walk to the door but no one will use it but me.  I rather not return now for a couple of months with it so cold and it looks so much more isolated and abandoned with all the snow around it.   We are resting and are warm at home.    Thanks for reading....