Gold and Green: Velvet, Sequins and Tights, and the Big Tree: Santas!

Just a quick outfit post today, plus a few more of my Christmas decorations. I'm all in golds and greens, from my jacket to my tights! I'm skipping a Flashback on both this velvet fancy jacket and this stunning sequined skirt, as neither of them have been in my closet very long.

I am, however, going to share my collection of Santa ornaments from the big tree. Despite my love for Santa, he's easily outnumbered by other categories of ornaments on my tree...like birds and fruit. Yes, fruit. We'll get to them at some point. 

Going through my sparkly things and deciding what to wear. 

• Jacket - Pink Tartan, consignment; last worn here in February with a swirly blouse and leather pants
• Lace top - Tangerine Jill, thrifted; last seen here layered under a dress in September 2019
• Sequined skirt - Banana Republic, consignment; last worn here for our Book Club adventure at the Castle in September
• Boots - Coffee Kope Tiam, Fluevog; last worn here in October with a jungle dress
• Leather trenchcoat - vintage 70s, thrifted; last seen here a week ago

I have actually paired this velvet jacket with this skirt before.

I don't usually do repeats, so I changed up the top underneath to this lace one. 

And I wore green tights and my neutral taupe boots. 

I wasn't feeling particularly inspired. I have only a week of work left, and then I'm on vacation for two whole weeks.

I think I saw 4 people today.

Masked up - this is a green one from Mom. 

I wore the jacket open all day, sitting at my desk, and only buttoned it up when I put my coat on. 

Outerwear - I should remember by now that it's cold once the sun goes down. 

The thin gloves were not very warm. 

• Gloves - Danier Leather

The stuff: 

Love these boots. They're simple but elegant. 

Gold bling: 

Did you notice my alligator pin riding on the top of the jacket pocket? 

• Necklace - D'Orlan, vintage 60s, thrifted
• Earrings - thrifted
• Brooch - vintage mall
• Amber ring - c. 1996
• Silver/smoky topaz ring - Anneli Neuman, Sweden, vintage mall

The Big Tree - Santas (and a couple of elves)

As noted, I don't actually have that many Santa ornaments, but the ones I do have are all rather unusual. 

Carrying on in the "celestial" theme - I have a set of blue "wizard" Santas that I cluster together on the tree. This wizard is the largest (he can actually stand flat) at around 7" tall. 

I like the "action" of his beard and robe blowing. His staff has a moon on the top, and there's a star coming out of his hand. Oh, looks like his hand's been repaired at some point. He was $24.95.

I have two little wizards - one in blue and one in silver - that are about 2" tall. You can see a bit of this fellow in the picture above.

His "crystal ball" is a little iridescent bead. 

The silver wizard Santa is the same. 

They were $5.95 each. 

I really like this giant snowflake with the wizard-y Santa in the centre. 

It's big - about 5-6" across, and was around $14.95. That is a most excellent flowy beard.

This guy's beard goes into a spiral icicle shape. 

I remember doing a tree with all of these wizard Santas on it, and being annoyed that all of them are so HEAVY. They are all solid resin, so they weigh down the branches (another reason why you should anchor a tree into a corner or to a wall - it's heartbreaking when a tree falls down!). 

Of all of my ornaments, this Santa riding the goose is fairly low on my "favourites" list. 

But it's still a nice ornament...

...and someone has to go on the back of the tree! He was about $4.95.

Now Santa is climbing to the top of an icicle. These were $5.95 each, and came in different designs of Santas. 

I bought this one because Santa's butt sticking way out made me giggle. 

It still does! Hee hee! Santa's got a big ol' butt. 

This Santa IS an icicle. 

He is actually made of wood. These were $7.95.

I like the twisty shape of this Santa's beard. These were $5.95.

There's a frog looking at me! 

This Santa is a clarinet! And he's playing a guitar. 

I don't remember other Santa instruments, like a saxophone - I would have bought them. I think he was around $9.95.

This is a small Santa face by Jacqueline (she of the porcelain Santa and angel figures). 

These were ubiquitous - I must have sold hundreds of them over the years. They were $2.99 each. 

This wood-textured Santa moon is also by her. He was $9.95. 

I like his face. 

Of course, being into moons, I had more than one Santa moon (and Moons are one of my ornament categories - there are more coming!). 

This fellow is big, and I really like the full round crescent of him. These were $4.95.

Snorkeling Santa! These were very popular later in the 90s, Santas doing different activities. 

He was $9.95.

There were 3 different models of this Santa On a Rope ornament. 

The little Santa is porcelain. 

Again, that's a sweet face - those little pince nez glasses! These were $8.95. 

Oh, the Skydiving Santa! We had these hanging from a fireplace mantel, and SO many of them got broken from people bouncing them up and down. 

He's on a spring, very sproingy. He was $5.95, a great price, except...

...people (kids and adults) would pull them down and let them go, so that they smashed into the others, and the hands and legs would break off. SIGH. "Please pay half of the cost of the ornaments you/your child just broke," I would ask (per our breakage policy, just to make our cost back). 

"It wasn't me/my child!" they would always huffily retort. Of course, it always was. I would stand there and watch them break things, and then they would deny it to my face.

Hey, who let these elves in here? I only have a few elf ornaments, so I'm putting them in with the Santa collection. 

I have always loved this fellow, who looks rather overwhelmed by it all (often how I felt after a frazzly day of dealing with customers). 

He has such great detail. 

He was $5.95, and was one of the earliest ornaments I bought. 

I also have an elf fairy. 

I like her boots. She was $3.95.

This wooden and fabric elf has always made me smile. The teddy looks like Pooky (from the Garfield comic) to me.

He and the teddy bear are in deep conversation. 

Probably about who's on the naughty list!

That's it for Santa and elves! Do you have a favourite?