::: this year's christmas find :::

Each year, I try to satisfy my desire for a bedazzled holiday home by adding a bit more to my Christmas decor, usually by shopping the clearance sales after the holiday or by scouring the shelves of My Favorite Thrift Store for the colors and themes I want. This year, the find was about ten bags of vintage wooden ornaments at the Thrift Store, each baggie containing about a dozen ornaments and costing .50 per bag. I remember ornaments like these from when I was a kid dreaming in the Winter Wonderland at Polsky's Department Store downtown or talking to Archie the Snowman at Chapel Hill Mall, so they've gotta be at least 35 years old. These little nostalgia-inducing lovelies found a home dangling from a white tree in the girls' room to induce nostalgia in yet another generation of girlies.