December Days in Photos: Day 3, Seasonal Decor

[nanila]

Last weekend we went to Leeds to visit the bloke's sister and family. On our way out the door, Humuhumu received a box from Eldest Niece containing this advent calendar. We didn't look at it until we got home. The bloke assembled it and hung it above the fireplace, where we can bask in its rainbow glory.

I'm really hoping this is meant to be a portrayal of the nativity, because it is truly spectacular. Starting from the lower right of the calendar, Joseph appears to be wearing a dress and carrying a fan and parasol. Mary wears a lovely white-spotted pink dress and a circlet and is carrying a basket. (I have made the distinction between the two adults purely based on the presence of eyelashes. It could well be the other way round.)

Baby Jesus sports a pretty pink twin set and pearls with a skirt as he feeds the bluebirds and the peacock, and seems to have been born aged five. He is flanked by an enormous parrot in a large green and gold cage. The latter have come out of the first two boxes. Humuhumu loves them.

As we carry on up the picture, we encounter a pink unicorn and its companion pony, a peacock on a fence, a large quantity of camellias, a fountain in a formal garden and finally, a castle.

AMAZING

Comments

[ceb]

Oh my goodness that's such a gloriously camp nativity! Thank you so much for sharing, this will keep me cheered for days :-)

(I think it's playmobil. I do hope you're going to get the pink unicorn too!)

[ceb]

I have just realised that Joseph is not in fact standing behind a kennel.

[yvi]

He isn't? He isn't!

Oh my... :-D

[nanila]

Joseph in a bustle*. Fabulous!

* I think?

[nanila]

Oh yes, the pink unicorn has got to be in one of the boxes (21? 23?).

Today's box yielded a camellia bush.

[ceb]

You do realise we're all going to require another photo of the assembled kit right? ;-) Maybe an arty black&white thing, or photoshopped to remove everything except pink, or something along those lines.

[cosmolinguist]

My life is better for knowing that this exists.

[nanila]

It's incredible. A massive round of applause to the person(s) who approved this for manufacture and sale.

[ceb]

Distracted googling yesterday revealed that playmobil also did a museum heist advent calendar, which I may need to have in my life at some point. (I am holding off because so far my playmobil collection is restricted to representations of highly specific literary and artistic fictional characters.)

[niqaeli]

This is in fact AMAZING.

[nanila]

I can't wait to see all the things that come out of the boxes. I wasn't present at the assembly so it's as much of a surprise to me as it is to Humuhumu when she opens them.

[lurkingcat]

That is a glorious, glorious thing :)

[nanila]

It's wonderful.

Given that Humuhumu is receiving an upbringing that could best be described as "apathetic atheist", she's going to be forming quite an interesting impression of Christian theology.

[silveradept]

This is a most interesting calendar - certainly more colorful and expressive than the ones I used to get as a child.

[nanila]

She's got all the pieces lined up next to her place at the dinner table so she can play with them as soon as she's done eating.

[silveradept]

What kind of stories are being told with these characters?

[nanila]

At the moment it's a lot of stuff about the birds and how they all want to be together in Parrot's cage, but not all of them can fit so someone has to stay outside and wait their turn.

[silveradept]

Sounds like a very prosocial set of stories going on. Anyone in particular that is consistently naughty?

[omnipotent]

That is HILARIOUS!

[nanila]

Today's box: Baby Jesus, replete with twinset and pearls. YESSS