Incorporation Day I 2023

Sometimes, when I get a gift, I know exactly where it’s going to go. Sometimes, it takes a while to figure it out. And sometimes I know where in general but not exactly where. When one of my gifts from my daughter was a papercut Day of the Dead mermaid card from Two Hermanas I knew I wanted it to be near the Two Hermanas Loteria papercut card my Birmingham niece had given me. We tried it in a few places on the gallery wall and realized it looked best behind the Day of the Dead mermaids.

At first I thought the nativity my Birmingham niece brought back from Oaxaca would be displayed with all the other nativities at Christmas. But when I put it with them it didn’t look right and I knew it belonged on the gallery wall shelves where we’d get to see it all year.

It was my husband who figured out that it needed those little birds on either side.

I knew exactly where the mermaid we got from my Pennsylvania in laws would go. There was a space in the mermaid display that had been bugging me ever since I hung the mermaid plate there this summer. I think this mermaid may be a bookmark but I think she looks perfect here.

My husband gave me a framed collage “Believe” and he was so glad that I figured out a place for it. “I loved it, but I had no idea where it was going to go,” he said. There was the perfect space for it in the workroom.

There are a few more gifts that need to be incorporated when the Christmas decorations are put away, and there is one that I need to figure out how to display, so there will be another incorporation post soon.