A light, fluffy snow fell gently all day. No winter wind here. No ice under. Just the sweetest, softest snow we've had in ages.
The late Thanksgiving threw me off my game this year and my holiday decorating is about a week behind my normal schedule. I put most of it up last weekend, hubby decorated the tree and I am now putting on the finishing touches.
One of the items I brought back from Arizona when we started cleaning out our parents' house was a beautiful folk art Santa by Pam Schifferl. I have a couple of her ornaments that I simply adore!
I planned to put the Santa under a cloche I had, but it wasn't tall enough. So, I headed to my neighborhood Home Goods store, which has an extensive offering of clear glass vases, hurricanes, apothecary jars and cloches. Eureka! They had one that was tall enough.
But, alas, I got it home and, not taking into account that it wasn't straight-sided, but rather bell shaped, the curvy section wouldn't fit over the width of the figurine. After an exhaustive and futile search for the right-sized cloche, I gave up and decided to make my own from a large egg-shaped vase.
The cute glittered bird substitutes for the cloche knob. He's surrounded by an ice wreath I already had among my holiday trimmings.
My mom's woodland Santa clearly is from the same clan as my ornaments.
Woodland Santa perches on a vintage milk glass cake stand atop a vintage bevelled mirror and is surrounded by vintage family mercury glass ornaments.
Welcome, Woodland Santa.
Make it a great day!
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Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a pretty post, Ann! Lovely photos and goodies...and I love your idea of using a vase for a cloche!
ReplyDeleteThe vase makes a perfect cloche! Love all of your pretties in glass!
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Hi lovely lady.
ReplyDeleteThis is my first time on your Beautiful Christmas blog. I think you did a Gorgeous job putting your cloche together sweet. I also your newest follower on your blog now. I am hoping you will also come join me on my Tablescapes.
Diane
Beautiful snow! Love the cloches and the vignettes with the Santas.
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