| Who would you like to have recite The Night Before Christmas? Someone like Burl Ives? That is what I thought, so I patterned my Santa after him. His bag is filled with Christmas nuts, which traditionally help fill the stockings. Sometimes I violate my rule about coins. I have a rule of not putting coins on statues of miniature people (like Nellie or Daniel Boone) but I sometimes make Santa the execption by putting one in his bag. Of course, Santa may really be a Gnome, since he finds it so easy to go down chimneys! Behind him is a little Raggedy Ann doll. |