Plaques

Purchased uncolored plaque at Darn.all's Chance Museum store in Upper Marlboro Md. It is made for children to color with crayons. No other medium will take on it. Ginger colored it for me

Purchased at 2018 Bulldawg Bazaar

Plastic canvas needlepoint nativity plaque made by Carole

Painted wooden plaque

Handmade nativity plaque found in a bazaar. Someone took a dollar store nativity and mounted it on a board.

Commercial nativity plaque- a gift from someone.

Cross shaped plaque with Luke 2 written on it. We hang it in the bathroom

Shadow box plaque made by Ginger. 

Commercial plaque from Walmart painted by Kathy

Scroll nativity plaque-a gift from someone

Wooden nativity plaque purchased at Walmart in Costa Rica

2016 Display

Each year we make changes to how we display our nativities. We add new ones and therefore have to retire some of the old ones. We did not make many changes in 2016. By being able to look at the previous years display, it makes it much easier to put up the following year's display..

Nativities made of metal

Pewter nativity glued to a geode slice

Very delicate layered metal ornament

Embossed metal ornament. Signed on back by artist, Bill Moore, 2007. Bought at Kutztown Folklife Festival

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2016 birthday gift from Kathy

Bought at Michaels in 2016. Picture is from a card.

Metal tree made of nativity scenes

Sterling silver ornament with a little red stone

Pewter ornament

The stand and bottom of the figures are metal. Each figure is a magnet so they stand securely on the stylized tree.

Dollar Store

When we began collecting nativity, it was easy to find them in the dollar stores. In fact, each year the stores would feature groups of very similar nativities with slight differences between each one. We made it a point to buy one of each in the set. Now it is hard to find even one or two different nativities in the dollar stores much less sets. A lot of times it is hard to remember or know if a single small nativity came from a dollar store. We pick up many small ones at thrift stores and yard sales. No matter where or how we got them, they are all special to us.

Notice the one in the middle does not have an angel

These remind me of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy

Very subtle differences

Not sure that these are from a dollar store but they fit the genre

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Probably dollar store

More than likely dollar store

Little hinged boxes with nativities on top. All of the bases are alike but the tops differ.

All of the scrolls have the same verse:
 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour,
which is Christ the Lord. Luke 2:11

These figures were sold separately at the dollar store. When we bought them we di did not notice that Joseph's hands were broken off. The stable did not come from the dollar store

Advent wreaths

Advent wreaths aka Advent crowns were first used by German Lutherans in Germany during the 16th century. They are horizontal wreaths with four or five candles. Each candle has a special meaning. Beginning on the first Sunday of Advent a different candle is lit and a Bible reading or devotion is giving explaining the significance of the candle. Three of the candles are purple, one is pink. If there is a fifth candle, it is white. The order of the candles is:;
. First Sunday- Hope (Purple candle)
  Second Sunday- Peace (Purple candle)
  Third Sunday- Joy (Pink candle)
   Fourth Sunday- Love (Purple candle)
   Christmas- Christ (center white candle)

Many other denominations now include the lighting of the Advent candles along with special readings  in their worship services.

Found at Joy Reigns Thrift Shop. The base is all one piece. Made of resin.

3 of our 4 Advent wreaths on display in 2018

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