Jason and I are collectors…or rather hoarders who like to pretend we “collect”. One of the many reasons this coming year will be deemed “The Year of Decluttering”, but I digress. Aside from comic books and Star Wars paraphernalia, we also collect nativity scenes. With all the commercialization of the Christmas holiday, having nativity scenes setup in our house seemed a good way for us to remember what the holiday really means to us personally.
Fortunately for our pocket book, we don’t just collect any old nativity scenes. For us, there has to be something awfully special about the pieces we pick up. With each one, there is a specific reason that we decided to add it to our collection.
As we put out all of our Christmas decorations this weekend, I thought it would be fun to revisit our collection here on my blog. (I would have had the house decked out the day after Thanksgiving, but I was on an early flight to visit my mom for the duration of that week.) Today, I’ll start with this piece:
Nativity Ornament by Works of Heart
Every year we go to The Yellow Daisy Festival at Stone Mountain Park. It’s touted as the largest arts and crafts show in the Southwest. And every year, we’ve always bought our personalized ornament from one of the two polymer clay artists who are regular participants of the show. Both ladies are equally skilled at making wonderful little mementos, but this year we gravitated towards Works of Heart.
Instead of our usual an annual ornament, we chose to pick up this new nativity ornament by Works of Heart. For all the collecting of nativity scenes we do, it turns out that we don’t have a single nativity scene ornament on our tree. Since we absolutely fell in love with it at first sight and there were no complaints made by either one of us, I immediately picked it up and took it to the check out station.
(If you’re interested in one of your own, you can see I’ve made their contact information available to you in the picture, or you can visit the Works of Heart website.)
We just hung ours up in the tree last night. It’s absolutely beautiful.
