...And Laying His Finger Aside of His Nose, And Giving a Nod, Up the Chimney He Rose!

Not surprisingly, the majority guessed correctly!! I guess you could say GMTA!!

Y'all know the poem by Clement C. Moore I'm sure. Well, I was working on displaying my elves on the fireplace hearth and mantel.  I first worked on the mantel.  Adding my Santa candle holders with Santa candles.  And the jigsaw puzzle Bud and I finished [and I framed] last year.  Then...elves and a couple strings of lights from Dollar Tree.  Down to the hearth then.  I love these elves I have collected the past three years!  They're posable [or is it spelled poseable?]!!  No matter.  I had them all positioned and the two largest ones I made them standing.  They were now peeking into the firebox thru the glass doors.  As I stood back to inspect the work, I got an idea...like the Grinch, I got an awful idea!  I got a wonderful, awful idea!!  That entailed tearing them all down from the hearth, and starting over.  But first, I had to 'build' Santa Legs...  Rounding up all the 'materials I needed to make a soft sculpture set of legs, I started sewing and stuffing and stuffing some more.  Done.  Now, to get it to work.  Y'know that wonderful, awful idea...I opened the glass doors with the legs in hand.  Placed them just so after adding a light to light up the box.  Tied it to the flue handle...and voilà!  Next step was to place the elves in such a manner as before with the two largest peeking in... ...giving a nod, up the chimney he rose. At Hootin'  Anni's,  the hard working elves helping out [not just working at the North Pole as once thought -SOME elves do not like the cold of the North Pole and would prefer the balmy Texas Coast].  They were bidding him a safe journey as he flew off to other toy shoppes around the world!!!

One image is with the illumination to guide Santa upward to his sleigh... while the other is during the day without lighting.
With the strings of lights...

Next post will be close up images of the elves...