More Acquisitions

Now that we’ve packed Christmas all up and taken it back to the storage unit, I’m ready to write about some of the presents we got for Christmas and some other recent finds.

The first present to arrive this year was this mermaid from a Northampton friend. She wrote that she hoped I had room for one more mermaid because she couldn’t resist buying her for me. The best thing about having collections is getting unexpected presents just because someone saw something you collect. Of course, I had room for her!

Another Northampton friend knows about my latest collection, and she sent a wooden mushroom – a fly agaric one like the little mushroom gnome I had sent her.

I gave my husband a red painted lizard from Zimbabwe, another find from Amazwi this summer.  I knew there was a space just waiting for him below the gourd mask I bought at Brown Elephant recently.

On the shelf below is another Brown Elephant find – a lantern made from cans. Each side is different, so it might get turned often.

My husband gave me a sun plate and mug from Anthropologie that I love!  I’m using the mug for my morning tea, but I knew that, especially with its orange and blue rim, that the plate belonged in the china cabinet. I found the perfect place on the middle shelf – I just had to push the three plates that were already there over a bit.

Then, when I went to the Ukranian National Museum with my Birmingham niece, I found two little pots that I thought might also belong in the china cabinet.  I hesitated for a moment since they were green, not blue, but I thought they’d still fit in, and they obviously do!

I found a place for them on the side on the middle shelf,  next to the little pot from Israel I bought when our next-door neighbors in Northampton had a tag sale many years ago.

One of my favorite Christmas gifts is a  wonderful quilt wall hanging that my Brooklyn niece made to go with my Day of the Dead offrendas, so in a way, this post will remain unfinished until the fall!