Mister and the little woman

Here is a cute little couple that I made a long time ago--back when I was quite heavily into the glue gun. Good thing I didn't bring that weapon onto the Christmas morning battlefield...heh...heh. The Mister's hat is glued on, as is his nose, and the same for the Missus....and her buttons too. I've gradually switched over to sewing on more of the doll accessories. Hats can be sewn on almost invisibly with a long doll needle and matching thread, and the dolls don't seem to mind. Polymer clay noses that have been glued onto the face have a way of popping off at the most awkward times....like just as I'm putting a snowman doll into a bag for a customer. Now I make a small hole in the face, just slightly smaller than the base of the nose, and force it in with just a dab of glue on the end. These guys are from my early crafting days, but they always have a place in our house for Christmas. No one is turned away....

So each year I get Tech Guy and Big City Girl an ornament for Christmas. The idea is that they will have quite a nice starter set for their own family trees one of these days. Here is the one I got for BCG this year. She's quite the coffee fan. Would you believe, it even smells like coffee? Maybe next year Hallmark will make a bagel ornament I can get to go with. Then the New York City breakfast-on-the-run set will be complete.

And here is the one I got for Tech Guy. It's a cell phone, complete with batteries. It plays Christmas tunes and the display screen lights up. What with 4 cell phones in the house, plus the one on the tree, we were never without some sort of holiday music for the duration.

So I mentioned in a previous post that I would be taking a vote on Christmas day to see whether the family thought that one questionable ornament might qualify as a pornament. The final tally was two-t0-two. It remains "up in the air" as to whether the Christmas pickle qualifies. We may have to invite the mailman in to break the tie. There were, however, a few comments about the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile, but no official vote was taken.

I hope you readers don't mind this little deviation from the usual G rating of this blog. It was all in good fun, wasn't it? Now I'm going back to work on my clean-up-the-treehouse project. I have lots of body parts scattered around and I need to get them organized. Don't worry. They're all G rated too.......