Some of you longtime readers may remember the year I decorated my entire Christmas tree using Santa mugs as ornaments. (
Photos here.) I had lots of fun doing that. In fact, I did it again Sunday night, but it was late in the evening when I finished, so I thought I'd wait until the next day to take a photo of the latest Santa mug tree. Bad choice. We had just gone to bed for the night when we heard a horrendous crash and clanging from directly below us downstairs, right where the tree was. With a sigh, I headed downstairs to inspect the damage. Would you believe not one mug was so much as chipped, and there were probably sixty- or seventy-something of them on that tree? Not. One. Broke. Isn't that miraculous? Turns out, the weight of all those mugs caused the tree stand — this one actually joined to the tree itself — to shatter into pieces, so that tree is now toast. I plopped up my retro aluminum tree instead, and while I'm sad the Santa mug tree didn't last even 24 hours, I'm happy I didn't lose any mugs in the process. And if you'll permit me one more Santa mug post this week, I discovered something about this one when I was unpacking the mugs that I thought was rather intriguing.
"Mae Woodall" it says in gold on the back of the mug. And on the bottom …
"Leona O, 1977." Was Leona the grandmother or aunt, maybe? Was Mae Woodall her granddaughter or niece? Or maybe Leona was Mae's nice neighbor lady who took up ceramics as a retirement hobby back in the seventies. How did the mug end up in my collection? I don't remember buying this one myself, so it had to have come from a friend or family member. Emilie Barnes wrote "If Teacups Could Talk," but right now, I wish this Santa mug could talk. At any rate, it survived The Great Tree Crash of '15, so that's yet another fun fact in this Santa mug's life story!
I'm so glad none of your Santa mugs perished in the tree crash. I'm sure there's a cute story lurking in that unfortunate happening somewhere. ;-)
ReplyDeleteSo glad to hear that all your mugs survived!
ReplyDeleteSo glad all your mugs are still intact. Makes a great story. Merry Christmas, Angela!
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm sorry your tree crashed (or "fainted", as one facebook picture claims) but SOOO glad that none of your mugs were damaged. Love the names on the mug pictured, just make up a tale to go with them since there is really no way of finding out the real story.
ReplyDeleteI saw one of these at the flea market on a shelf this week and IMMEDIATELY thought of you and I thought, "I wonderful if she has this one"?
ReplyDeleteBoy, were you lucky! We'll all be thinking of you every time we see a Santa mug Angela.
ReplyDeleteYesterday I was in an antique mall and saw so many Santa mugs for $1.50. I kept think of you. Some were signed by the maker. I would never have looked except for Angela.
ReplyDeleteWow. So glad nothing was broken.
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