T Stands For The Christmas Pageant

 While I love our Christmas trees, the decorations that really make my heart sing are the figures that make up the Christmas pageant

A traditional creche with a touch, okay, a lot of whimsy thrown in. The pageant was displayed on my mother's hope chest, but with a few new additions each year, I was running out of room. The dining room table became the perfect location to spread out a bit.

The Young One also enjoys the silliness of the pageant tradition. She graciously contributed to the merriment with an assortment of her treasures. The theme has always been everyone is welcome.

She added her Dodo Bird. I asked her to make me a small, gargoyle like my garden, Dedo, to protect the stable.

When she was little, Grandpa (my dad) collected tiny figurines from boxes of Red Rose tea. My parents drank gallons of Red Rose so Dad could collect all the circus figures, wild animals, and domestic animals. He gave them to The Young One as she loved to play with the little figures which she called her chinas. Two china kitties take a cat nap at the edge of the stable.

Since this is tea day, Hat shares her teacup with the Granpa.

The Young One also hand-sewed a pair of felt cardinals

When the Young One was a teen and in college, she was an aide at the Worcester Art Museum. In one of the sculpting classes, the instructor let her play along, and she made a gargoyle. When the gargoyle was not in the pageant, he lived in the studio on top of the computer tower. The table got bumped. The gargoyle jumped and his wings and horns broke off. I bought some Crayolo Model Magic, an air dry type of clay, and asked the Young One if she could make me another larger gargoyle. She even added fangs and eyes. 

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