Tonight's ornament is definitely unique...I really doubt that anyone else has one like it on their tree! Part of the uniqueness of this ornament is the way I received it...you are seeing the packaging and the way it came through the mail! This little papoose in a cradleboard was sent to me by my grandfather when he went on a trip to California back in the early 1950s...that's his handwriting on the mailing tag and it took all of 3¢ to mail it...a far cry from what it takes this year to send a flat Christmas card in an envelope! The little papoose can come out of the cradleboard...but these days it is better left in. The leatherlike material the cradleboard is made out of has seen better days...but then it is very old...since I am very old!!!! I'm guessing that it is probably around 72-74 years old. I wish that I could read the post mark date. I see that it was sent in April of whatever year. Can you imagine the reaction of a postal worker if someone tried to mail this, as is, through today's mail system?!? And, I'm sure that he just dropped this into a mail drop box at the tourist center he was visiting. For some reason I think he was on a bus tour...I don't know if I was told this in the past...but there is no one to ask anymore that would remember better than I...and perhaps I was too young to remember myself. Grandpa (my mother's father) was from Massachusetts but came to Arizona for the winter and stayed with us most years. I have given myself the evening off to do whatever I want to, since I got so much done today. I have the ornaments ready to have hanging cords added to them. I finished stuffing them and sewed up the opening in them this morning. Then from late morning till around 5pm, I worked on Joy's bridesmaid dress and I can say that it is hemmed...both the skirt and the underskirt. At that point it was time to take a break from that type of task!!! Tomorrow I will tackle Abigail's bridesmaid dress, and I "think" that I only have to do the skirt on hers and not the underskirt...fingers crossed!!! I plan to watch Matlock and Elsbeth tonight and maybe stitch some more on the cardinal sampler that I have been working on...something that isn't Christmas!!! Or..."maybe" I will work on the finishing touches on the ornaments...it would be nice for them to be finished, also. Plugging along...trying to be disciplined so I won't be doing any last minute ornament making the night before our family Christmas...which isn't all that far away as we are going to have our family celebration on the 21st. 'Tis the season! To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!
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