T'was the Night Before Christmas

Photo from an original Kodachrome slide by Ross J. Care, my dad.

and Santa might have trouble getting down this chimney.

It's cardboard, one of those quaint late 1940s/1950s Christmas artifacts.

Note also the cardboard "multiplane" (3-D) nativity scene on the "mantle" and the vintage wax candles in the form of snowmen and angels.

If you look really closely you can see (behind the left hand angel) one of those bristly frosted miniature Christmas trees constructed on a metal wire stuck into a yellow wooden base.

And, of course, the stocking "hung by the chimney with care" (and by Care) and the red and green paper chains which I probably made with construction paper and that white sticky paste.

I look all snug in baby blue pajamas and bare feet, if just a tad sleepy.