Christmas Gift Incorporation II

With almost all of the winter decorations back in the storage unit, we could incorporate the rest of our Christmas gifts. My sister gave me an enameled tray and two bowls and they inspired an entire rearrangement of the top of the sideboard.

The copper tray hosts the matching bowl and the two Turkish coffee pots from my parent’s basement. And it really shows off the small plate my Pennsylvania in-laws gave us a few years ago. The larger bowl from my sister which has a bronze outside and a beautiful green inside is going to sit in the middle of the dining room table (after the amaryllis from my Maryland in-laws is finished blooming) so the gourd basket (we bought it in Denver and it has graced the dining room table for around 50 years) with its round gourds (we acquired at some point) now sit on the left side of the sideboard. A perfect place for our youngest grandchild to access the round gourds that she likes to hide around the living room. (They are a stand in for the wooden Easter eggs that will appear on the sideboard in March.)

One of the things I buy for my husband are gargoyles so when I saw a wooden one at the Christkindlmarket I knew it would be the perfect Christmas gift. He ended up on the top of the white bookcases with the Matroyska dolls.

Alligators, turtles, and frogs are animals we gift each other and this year I got a bright green turtle from Guatemala in my stocking. He’s actually a magnet but I thought he should join his ilk on top of the CD shelves.

Looks like he is having a good conversation with that frog.