Oh how I wish I was in Nuremberg right now for their huge annual Christmas fair! I've been obsessed with German Christmas ornaments this year. This looks like heaven to me...
from the Christkindlmarkt official site...
from the Christmas in Today's Germany that I checked out from the library...
"Walking through the Nuremberg market is a delightful experience for everyone, but children seem to enjoy it most of all. More than 100 booths fill the marketplace, each bright with Christmas lights. Vendors offer roasted almonds and chestnuts, gingerbread houses, smoked sausage, wonderful toys and trinkets, and all types of wooden nutcrackers. Holiday music fills the air, and the scent of fir trees is all around. This great fair truly offers something for every visitor."
Sausage and ornament shopping...sign me up!
But since international travel is not in my near future I spent all last night window shopping online for German ornaments. I'm procrastinating from all these tasks piling up in front of me, this ridiculous decorate-my-apartment-with-cut-paper idea which is going to take FOREVER, all of the over ambitious handmade Christmas presents I'm planning and of course this baby clothes quilt which has to be finished in 5 days! Instead I spent hours seeking out the cutest pyramids, arches, music boxes, figurines and of course ornaments. I think I'll have to try that "more" feature because there are just way too many!
I found more Wendt and Kuhn at this site, Christmas International
not Christmasy but so cute!
I love these angels so much - especially the one with all the presents and a little birdie perched on top!
Another site for wooden ornaments.. Decoration Warehouse. They don't have the best pictures but we can forgive them because look how round and cute!
Another company I discovered, M üller - more beautiful wood craftsmanship, arches, pyramids, ornaments...
and I really like their bears!
And another, Richard Glässer...
and isn't this so beautiful!
Well, I'll just have to content myself with the knockoff I picked up at Target last year...
