Special effects

Lladro style nativities

Clear glass and acrylic nativities

This used to be inside a snow globe but the globe got broken while in storage. Perhaps it was cracked and the heat or cold of the attic did it.

Although this appears to be blown glass it is actually molded glass

Notion the very light tinting

Acrylic

These two nativities and the next one are very heavy glass.

Clear glass with gold figures. The figures on the left are metal, the ones on the right are painted

Acrylic-has a light that changes colors

Acrylic. Supposed to be an ornament but like many other large and/or heavy ornaments we choose to display it standing on its base.

Ornaments

Crocheted ornament

Received in a Knit Wits Yankee Swap

There is a little scene inside that is hard to see

Bought in a Christmas bazaar. Made in a cookie cutter

Found in a thrift store

Made from two identical cards that had these decorations

Made by Southern High School nurse for the Bulldawg Bazaar

Glazed ceramic

Etched Acrylic 

Delicate layered metallic ornament

Hand engraved. Purchased from the crastsman at Kutztown Folklife Festival

2016 Christmas gift from Kathy.

Picture frame ornament with a Christmas card cut out iinside

Plastic canvas ornament designed by Carole reminding us that Christianity came out of Judaism. This ornament is not counted as a nativity it is an important reminder that Jesus' coming was first predicted in Genesis 3:15.

A heavy freestanding resin ornament

Notice the little red stone in the star

Two wooden freestanding ornaments found in yard sales

We love unusual nativities. When at a Christmas bazaar Carole saw other ornaments made from crab shells, but no nativity. So she commissioned  the artist to make one for her. 

Nativity painted in the bowl of a wooden spoon. Found at Kutztown Folklife Festival 

Made from an Oriental Trading kit

Stenciled metal. Bought at Dick's 5 and 10 in while on vacation in Branson, MO We actually brought home 13 nativities, mostly from Dick's.

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 Bought at Dick's 5 and 10 in while on vacation in Branson, MO

 Bought at Dick's 5 and 10 in while on vacation in Branson, MO

 Bought at Dick's 5 and 10 in while on vacation in Branson, MO

 Bought at Dick's 5 and 10 in while on vacation in Branson, MO

 Bought at Dick's 5 and 10 in while on vacation in Branson, MO

 Bought at Dick's 5 and 10 in while on vacation in Branson, MO

Two counted cross stitch ornaments

Large ornament made of circles cut out from Christmas cards

I used a Tylenol box to create a shadow box nativity scene

2018 creation by Southern High School (Harwood, MD) school nurse who always has a different each year to sell at the Bulldawg Bazaar

Found in a thrift store