For some strange reason yesterday I was gripped by the need to have a good old spring clean in the middle of autumn. I can't say that it has resulted in a huge difference about the place but a few forgotten items have been resurrected, a few more are ready to be listed on e-bay, and a large carrier bag of unwanted items was donated to the local charity shop this morning. Whilst I was in the charity shop I made a small purchase - well it would have been rude not to!! - of this rather nice ceramic reindeer tea light holder.
It was still in its original (German) box and carefully wrapped in bubble wrap. I do like these naive-style Christmas decorations and, for some peculiar reason, am particularly drawn to anything in the shape of a reindeer (there goes my presumed Nordic genes again!!) Last Christmas they had Santa's sleigh being pulled by live reindeer in the High Street and as I had never seen a real reindeer I went along to have a look - I was really surprised, they are so small. I was expecting something the size of a cow, and these were more the size of a large Shetland pony, well - perhaps a bit bigger but certainly not as big as I was expecting.
I also added a back and lightly stuffed the other Matryoshka applique
so that I've got a pair of simple softies to go with my Christmas decorations.
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