Picspam - Christmas gifts 2016

[dieastra]

So, time for my annual showing off the Christmas presents! Like every year, I get the best things. Nothing too expensive, but much cute stuff. Click the cut for all the details!

Previous gifts can be found here: 2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012 - 2011




A calendar of South England:



You never can go wrong with pyjamas:



Sheep! The candleholder on the left is from my brother. It's heavy pottery.



More sheep - one I'll have to crochet myself! Oh boy!



A cute little smoking house looking like a gingerbread house from my mother, and a wooden candleholder moose from my brother:



Also from my brother - a pair of cute little boots:



This Christmas tree ornament is made from original lace from Plauen which is quite famous for doing these, and includes a little wooden Dresden Frauenkirche (Church of our Women). Never seen something like this before! Very nice:



Our local flower shop did a Christmas decorations sale a few weeks ago and I chose these wooden skates for myself:



I think hamsterwoman will approve of this little critter ;) It's a cat toy and both my brother and I got one. The reason behind is that we once talked about wanting to visit Hameln - the town where the famous piper stole all the children. Apparently they have a rats festival every year playing this story and all over the town you can buy rats merchandise.



When we were on Summer vacation I wanted to buy this little cutie in the Görlitz Zoo but my mother said she would pay for it so I had to wait till now to get him. I really couldn't let sit that on the shelf, could I?



A cute reindeer candle holder:



My grandmother usually just gives money but she also included this little teddy dressed as an elephant. I think he'll go well with my wolf in sheep's clothing ;)



A little London tin box (you can never have too many little tin boxes) and some additions for my eraser collections. A tiger, lion, giraffe and horsey, and a whole London display. At first I thought it was one big eraser but it's several. It's the London eye, then St. Pauls cathedral I guess, Big Ben of course and I have no idea what the thing on the right would be? Is it a bridge or a building? Does anyone know?



Backside of the cardboard:



A bookmark where, when you move it, the picture moves as well. The monkeys are walking:



My brother also gave me a canoe in case my figures want to do some canoeing, and a Kuuuuhgelschreiber which is a play of words of the German word for Cow and pen. Also everyone got these red stars and with mine he included little ones for the figures. I have a very considerate brother!



I got this little pottery jug and my brother got a little cake baking form. So cute! I also love the gingerbread man, and the penguin I bought from grandmother's money.



Here is the new penguin with his brethren:

Comments

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

This is exactly my idea how the Christmas presents should look like! Nothing expensive but lots of small cute and lovely thinks - especially those you like but never would buy yourself:-)
And the calendar...oh oh oh!
That structure on your ovely London box looks like the Tower Bridge:-)

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

especially those you like but never would buy yourself:-)

Some of these - the London box, the erasers, the boots - I had indeed seen in shops before but did not buy and then I was happy I hadn't! They know me very well indeed.

I really don't think it is the Tower bridge. This is what the Tower Bridge looks like: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iTBfKfLfmyw/maxresdefault.jpg

And here is a picture of the backside of the cardboard, where it looks more like a building, with windows inside:

(http://s137.photobucket.com/user/DieAstra/media/Christmas/DSC05223.jpg.html)

I forgot a gift, oops: A bookmark, where the monkeys walk when you move it:

(http://s137.photobucket.com/user/DieAstra/media/Christmas/DSC05220.jpg.html)

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

HAha, lovely monkeys!

Well, you are right, I can see it now. But after some thoughts I think that this drawing looks a lot like Battersea power station:-) - the chimneys. I don´t give up!LOL

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

You're right! Thank you! That's exactly what it looks like! I just googled pictures of it.
Is this a famous London thing? I've never even heard of it! Maybe I should go there next time I am in London.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Battersea Power Station was saved and preserved just because of its cultural reference, it was on a famous Pink Floyd album but I don´t remember which one, I don´t listen to PF.:-) I believe it is a symbol of the pop culture in London after the Beatles.I am not sure but there should be a gallery. It is in south London just near the Thames. I saw it several times from a coach:-)

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I definitely put it on my list of sights to see! I am interested in old industry architecture. I also like bridges etc.

A few weeks ago they opened our new operetta in Dresden in an old power station. I have lots of pictures I want to post yet. They left a lot of the old machinery things in. Very interesting!