Surprise Ornaments

So Lauren and I are doing our thing tonight (which means mostly that we were enjoying the CBS family classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer while drinking wine) and I decided to take more ornament pictures. In my study of the tree I was quite surprised to find this:



Hello-what are you? "Lauren," says I, "why is there a pillow on the tree?" "A what?" "There's an ornament on the tree and it's a pillow-with fruit on it." Lauren came over and we both inspected this new ornament neither of us had ever seen. "Huh."

Five minutes later, while I was photographing our smaller themed tree in the dining room I hear: "Moglie..." "Si?" (occasionally we speak to each other in Italian but it's pretty limited to: moglie, si, ciao, grazie, and prego). "There's a Hershey truck on the tree." "A what?" (deja vu all over again there). "There's a Hershey truck ornament on the tree!" I went over to her and by gum there was indeed a Hershey Truck ornament on the tree:



So now the big mystery is, from whence did these come? Are there more? Will they multiply overnight? We are rather confused. St. Nikolas does not come until tonight so he didn't bring them; I'd be shocked if J.Fo. contributed them, bah humbug that he is. Perhaps Grizz? She knew we were concerned over the sparseness of decoration on this year's tree (due more to a larger tree than a disappearance of ornaments) but when did she hang them? She didn't do it this morning so perhaps last night? A mystery...

Camera: Kodak EasyShare Z740

Vintage Christmas

One of the first things I did when I moved to DC (well, ok technically I did it when I went back to MI for Thanksgiving) was to nick some of my favorite Christmas ornaments from the cupboard under the stairs. My family's tree has never been one of those ueber expensive 'themed' trees but has always been a real family tree with ornaments of all types, styles, and ages. We have a number of glass ornaments that are on their way to being antiques; those that have survived the years unbroken anyway:

Christmas Ornaments 06 and 07

Since Lauren posted her new Christmas ornament I cannot but do the same. I love peacocks (at least the idea of them-the actual bird is a loud pain in the ass) but any peacock representation, picture, figurine etc has to be mine.



However, I'm going to one up Lauren and also post last year's ornament because I really like it too. In fact, after we dismantled the tree I couldn't bear to pack it away so I hung it in my room!