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Christmas Ornaments

As Christmas nears I’ve become obsessed with vintage and handmade Christmas ornaments. A quick search on Etsy pulled up some terrific finds. Including a Blown Glass Ornament Ball by Texas based artist wolfartglass that looks like a soap bubble, so delicate and fragile!

A Vintage German Cuckoo Clock Ornament by smilemercantile for your favorite Teuton. And these Vintage Radko Shiney-Brite Ornaments listed by geeminycricketts to make your tree, well… shiny and bright! I think a handmade or vintage ornament makes the best gift, something that will be treasured and admired year after year! So put on Jingle Bell Rock, whip out the egg nog and get decorating or at least sending some really unique ornaments!

(Plus I came across these Scottish Highlands Finger Puppets by NYC based artist babyanimals which I love and thought would make fantastic stocking stuffers!)

nicoletta ceccoli

Oh Nicoletta Ceccoli! My friends know me too well. For my birthday last year, my BFF gave me Kate Bernheimer’s book The Girl Inside the Castle Inside the Museum which Nicoletta illustrated. Ceccoli has illustrated many books in her home country of Italy, but also the US and the UK but The Girl Inside the Castle Inside the Museum is my favorite by far.

Raise your hand if you too have ever wanted to live in a museum!

Steven Kraan

Nothing brings out the geek in me more than looking at pixel art. Remember the days of Sierra games on the PC? The entire Police Quest series and Indiana Jones were my favourite games from the heydays of point and click adventure games (do I hear a whoop?)

Luckily, I can still get my pixel lust satiated just by reading and looking up the daily drawings of Steven Kraan. He lives in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where a lifelong passion for drawing has finally led him to be a freelance illustrator. Other than create these wisecracks on pixels, he also draws with more traditional tools — like pen and paper.

You can also follow him on his Facebook page.

And now, excuse me while I geek myself out some more by revisiting old games and see if I can load them up on my Mac!