Doll-A-Day 2023 #350: Chenille Santas

   While we're still in Christmas mode, I wanted to show you these little guys.

  Technically they are dolls. They are tiny vintage chenille Santas.

They're probably just under three inches tall. I was lucky to get a bag of vintage Christmas decorations at one of the few yard sales I went to this year, and these guy were in it. They're absolutely perfect! They're clean, and soft, and haven't been squashed out of shape at all.

They are as soft as they look!

 They were in the same bag as the vintage miniature Christmas house Tammy World showed you a few days ago. They're ornaments, as you can tell from the string. They're holding little Christmas trees.

Their faces are made of something other than chenille, obviously.  I'm not sure what it is. I found the exact same ones online, and the seller said their faces were composition. That looks about right. The dealer also said they were from the 1940's.

  I love them.. Don't forget to check out today's other posts, as we scramble to catch up with the end of the year! 

The Twelve Days of Tammy World, Day Nine: Tammy Shows Off Some Vintage Christmas Stuff

   Tammy finally got out of that Christmas sweater! She wanted something else Christmassy, but she doesn't have all her clothes here. She settled for a cozy sweater that is non-Christmassy. At least it's warm. 

  Today Tammy wanted to show you some vintage Christmas decorations she likes to have up at Christmas.

 The little house just arrived this summer, in a bag of vintage Christmas minis at a yard sale. I think it might be a cake decoration.

It's hollow, but the opening isn't big enough to get a light inside.  At the moment it's lighted by sitting on top of a battery operated tea light.

The other things she wanted to show you are super tiny and old, and not in the best of shape any more. But they are really nice.

The one with the antlers is a reindeer. But is the other one a female reindeer, without antlers, or a sheep? It looks more like a sheep, but if it is, its a sheep as big as a reindeer!

 

They're celluloid, so they are very delicate...and also flammable! Both reindeer have lost one antler, although I have one of the missing ones somewhere.

I love them because they are just like the full size vintage celluloid reindeer I have. Full size, as in, for table decorations that is! Not full size reindeer!

  It looks very cozy with everything lighted. Tammy is sitting in front of an advent calendar sent to us by our friends in Germany. We stayed with them on our trip last year. One of these days I need to get to that part of the trip and actually finish those posts. I'm forgetting things. And I'm so close to finishing! It was the last 4 or 5 days of the trip. I never finished the posts on the last trip, so I swore I was going to finish this time.

  So that's it for today. Poor Tammy is missing her family, but I daren't drag a load more dolls into the house, especially since Emma and AJ are moving next month, and, hopefully, so are we. (Into our house, I mean!) They have bought their first house.

  Maybe Tammy can see some of her family for Christmas. We'll see.

  Tomorrow we'll check in with Tammy World again.

Top Ten Reasons You Have a Blog...

...Because nobody at home cares that you found that really cool 1/6 scale Shogun helmet at the junk store...

Apparently these were given away when you flew Japan Airlines.
It came in this little plastic base, but was made to be removable.

It HAD to load sideways! This is a reproduction of a helmet that belonged to Ieyasu Tokugowa. He was a pretty famous guy. He even has his own Wikipedia page which you can see HERE, although everybody else, including Wikipedia, seems to call him Tokugowa Ieyasu.

...not even when you tell them it actually fits on a doll...

That orange thing is supposed to go under his chin, but there was no way that was happening.

...or when you tell them you only paid $2 for the whole bunch of stuff...

... that also included a complete set of 'Tiny Tray' coasters that will make great 1/6 scale trays,a tiny version of the gauze angels you've been buying,and other stuff that matches stuff you already have.

  Whatever.