Santa Collector

I'm a Santa Collector.

Well I used to be anyhow.

But once people find that out, Mr. Kringle keeps arriving in some way shape or form. 

I've got three mantels.


Yup, it's true.  I have one mantel I usually decorate in the family room and two that I might put some garland on or leftover lights.... if I feel inspired.

I also have a Santa collection that has never had a home.

I scope out a random spot to sprawl them out on, and many years I don't even feel like letting them out of their bin.

This year the Santas are loose.  

Bedroom mantel......meet Santa.

That one with the big red bowl full of jelly in the front -
I refer to him as pregnant Santa, he's one of my favorites.

Instead of spreading the jolly old elf all over the place, I put the crew inside a Howitzer box with some unused tree thingy's.  (I do believe Shotgun Shell Santa needs to go in there too.)

That's it, nothing earth shattering or amazing.

It's the first time the Santa gang has been corralled and the first time the bedroom mantel looks like I put some decorations there on purpose.

I stayed in the groove, the Santa Claus is Coming to Town groove.....  because not all the Santas fit in the Howitzer box.

In a metal tool box tote, I added mostly St. Nick's my kids have made, and presto - my normally un-decorated bedroom (unless wrapping paper and misc. required holiday items all over the floor for a month, count as decorating) is beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

The metal mold Santa is another one of my favorites, along with the ones my kids proudly made of course.

Santa is out of the bin and holding holiday on the bedroom mantel......

It's a Christmas miracle of the North Pole kind.