…………the dining table has transformed from the card factory packaging area to…..
Little Bo Peep….is looking for………….wait for it…………….well, you fill in the rest….
Hi Diddle Diddle……hum the rest…..
Mother Goose has to look up her rhyme….
Dum dee dum dum or is it just Dum and Dee…
We decided to forgo the tree downstairs….wonder why? Little Miss Destructo puppy, that’s why! So, Nikka just put up the kiddies tree in the studio.
All the bears and a lost bunny are out…..
….bears everywhere…..
Nikka composed scenarios. Here the cat is eyeing the parrot….
Mom loves these two that I got at a garage sale…they’re her favorites!
Here’s the bear riding the lamb….
Mr. Nutcracker enjoying his reflection thinking…”What a handsome fellow I am!”
Nikka said the penguin is on top of this present because he’s claiming it for Christmas!
A favorite ornament hand made by a dear student….
Oh bear you’re so cute with your little sweater….
This one ate too much and is ‘stuffed’….hahahahaha….
This fine fellow is fully electric and moves about when plugged in…..easy there fella….
This bunny took a wrong turn at Easter…..
Nikka has this guy in the sled being pulled by that reindeer….
….and the cow is tying the bow on the Hermes box…..
Did I show you the cat keeping an eye on the parrot….
Here again….mom’s favorite…
….and her mate….
Love Paddington Bear….
….the tree again…
….showed you this but like this shot better….
Who doesn’t love Betty Boop????
Betty you’re the cat’s meow…..or whatever they said in your day….Note the shoes next to her…Charles would get me these ‘shoes’ from the Metropolitan each year and there are about twenty now on the tree…..I’m an Emelda Marcos in miniature!
This you’ll love….the doll is reading a Christmas Tale to all the M&M’s under the tree….look close & you’ll see it.
I LOVE Pooh Bear!!!!
….the White Rabbit….
Healthy Santa loaded down…(and maybe loaded at that!)
Awwwwwwwwwwww…………
You have to look hard to see it, my childhood Raggedy Ann is petting my dog from the same era….Nikka said that was me!
Nikka said ‘this is adorable”!
Cute….
Beer anyone?….Got this one at Sur la Table…
And the cow jumped over the moon….
Snoopy is somewhere on the tree…..
Nikka said this one is Angel YUKI……
so….angel Yuki is flying near the other angels…..
Say goodnight kiddies….
All of us in Toyland wish you and all those you hold dear all the love your hearts can hold!
MERRY CHRISTMAS