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| Mr. Fezziwig is my all time fictional hero! |
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| The Christmas Post |
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| "He had a broad face.." and he is cracked, alas |
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these many years ago when I still lived in Buffalo at 231 Kenville, I
belonged to the Book of the Month Club. This did not mean I had to
purchase a book of the month, so I did not overindulge. At this point
in time, I remember getting a one volume collection of Edna Ferber,
another of Ellory Queen, a collection by Dashiell Hammond, and
another by James M. Cain – and except for Ellory Queen which I gave
to my Dad, I still have all of them on my shelf here with me. The
actual featured books of the month, whenever I was lulled into
buying them, turned out to be momentarily titillating reads that were
immediately forgettable.
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| The Christmas Ball |
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a few years, however, at Christmas, the BOMC featured stained glass
ornaments – one per year. They appeared to be collectors' items,
and since I very much like stained glass, I purchased one each year
for four years. I don't know if they were discontinued after that or
for some reason I stopped buying. But every Christmas I hang them in
a window. And they are precious to me.
When
I was very young, Mom had among the family Christmas decorations a
table centerpiece that was a block of Styrofoam covered with plastic
ivy – on top was a sleigh with a couple of reindeer, and there were
four holes for candles. For some reason I was fascinated with this
centerpiece and put it into my head to have something just like it
someday.
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| Sleigh Centerpiece |
It
was not until I was in my thirties and we moved to Oklahoma that I
stopped by a local candle-shop one day and decided I was going to
purchase something as close to that old Styrofoam centerpiece as I
could find. I ended up with a wooden sleigh that holds three candles
and the plastic ivy can weave between the tapers. It really was not
at all like what Mom had on our table every Christmas – but now,
after all this time, I really love it. Today it is in a window
beneath the stained glass ornaments – it has new sprigs of plastic
ivy that I got from Michaels last year at half price – spruced it
up quite a bit!
Hopefully
when the girls and grandchildren think back on the Christmases of
their youth they will remember how special the BOMC ornaments and red
wooden sleigh had been to me!
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