Laowai

I love, love, love my Mom’s collection of Christmas ornaments. It’s something so simple but every year I take such pleasure in carefully looking over the tree with my mom and my sister. Looking for a particular one – remembering ones that were new last year. Finding my favorites from way way back when I was little. The collection leans towards sweet, cute and vintage looking ornaments with lots of animals dressed up in red and green. Many of them are old Hallmark ornaments (I think their old ones are much better than the ones they have today). And there are of course a few homemade creations scattered in the collection. 

I snapped a few photos of these:

I try to add to the collection every year. This year I had fun making these from a kit (the photos are from Rosy Little Things). I only managed to take a picture of the deer’s rump while I was making mine.