Penguin Summer: Rehoboth Beach II

Christmas Spirit has a wall of Christopher Radko ornaments. Three of them had penguins.

Christopher Radko “Dapper Ding-Dong” tuxedo bell

Acquired: July 29, 2009, Christmas Spirit, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Number: 0695

Size: 5.5 inches tall

Price: $50

Christopher Radko “Winter Working Pals” three penguins building snowman

Acquired: July 29, 2009, Christmas Spirit, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Number: 0696

Size: 6 inches tall

Price: $55

Christopher Radko “Cozy Crew” snowman and snowwoman with baby penguin

Acquired: July 29, 2009, Christmas Spirit, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Number: 0697

Size: 5.25 inches tall

Price: $50

Penguin Summer: Rehoboth Beach I

Our last stop on the two-eek RV trip was in Rehoboth Beach where I found a big cache of ornaments at Christmas Spirit.

Merck Family Old World Christmas three-piece “Penguin Band”

Acquired: July 29, 2009, Christmas Spirit, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Number: 0685 0686 0687

Size: 2.25 inches tall

Price: $7.99 each

Two sets of heavy lifelike penguins, one with a tree and shovel, the other with birdhouse and cardinal

Acquired: July 29, 2009, Christmas Spirit, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Number: 0690 0691

Size: 3.5 and 3.75 inches tall

Price: $4.75 each

Acquired: September 13, 2009, A Christmas to Remember, Lake George, N.Y.

Number: 0716 0717

Price: $8.99 and $9.99

Penguin summer: Baseball Hall of Fame

After Mystic we drove to Plymouth, Mass and drove through New Hampshire and Vermont on our way to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.  We spent a good part of the day in the museum, but we also had to stop at Christmas Around the Corner to see if they had any penguins. In addition to the tinsel-scarf set posted earlier this month, there was the clown-like sliding penguin at the top of the picture. The other two came about a week later at the end of the trip.

Seasons of Cannon Falls clown-like penguin sliding on red and white striped belly with gift on back

Acquired: July 23, 2009, Christmas Around the Corner, Cooperstown, N.Y.

Number: 0666

Size: 4.25 inches long

Price: $9.99

Seasons of Cannon Falls clown-like penguin with blue and white striped belly with candy cane strapped on back and penguin with pink and white belly with a bucket of snowballs

Acquired: July 29, 2009, Christmas Spirit, Rehoboth Beach, Del.

Number: 0688 0689

Size: 5.5 and 5 inches tall

Price: $8 each

Black and white, and red all over

This is a really nice set of two-sided ornaments with a lot of detail on the front and back. It’s an odd collection of characters: a pair of formally attired ballroom dancers, an ice skater and a sign painter. I’m trying to imagine a story that would tie them all together. Two dancers and skater came from a visit to Montreal, while the painter came a year later when I was in Rehoboth Beach, Del. It makes me wonder if this might be a series of ornaments with a new design each year.

Red and black formal dancers and skater

Acquired: April 19, 2008, Noël Eternel, Montreal PQ

Number: 0458 0459

Size: 3.5 inches tall

Price: 7.99 $CAN

Red and black painter with North Pole sign

Acquired: July 29, 2009, Christmas Spirit, Rehoboth Beach, Del.

Number: 0694

Size: 3.5 inches tall

Price: $5.50

Snow angel

I have penguins with snowmen, penguins with snowballs, penguins playing in the snow, even penguins filled with snow, but this is the only penguin I have making a snow angel. The flat glass bulb is covered with a snowy frosting and a painted penguin is flapping its wings and feet to make the angels wing and flowing gown. The ornament is also filled with snowflakes, like a number of others in the collection. I wonder if I’m supposed to fill them with water so the snow inside can be shaken like a snow globe, but I’m afraid of making a mess or breaking the ornament.

Snow Caps by Seasons of Cannon Falls, MN, flat glass snow-filled bulb with painted penguin making a snow angel

Acquired: July 29, 2009, Christmas Spirit, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Number: 692

Size: 4 inches in diameter

Price: $17.50

Happy feet

There’s so much going on with this guy, I almost don’t know where to start: the big white boa, those rosy cheeks, the glitter-dusted face, and the big clear belly full of snow painted with red snowflakes and what looks like pinwheels and flowers. All of those things set this ornament apart from the rest of the pack, but what does it for me are those crazy feet dangling at the bottom.

Seasons of Cannon Falls glass, snow-filled bulb with a penguin head and dangling feet, made in China

Acquired: July 29, 2009, Christmas Spirit, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Number: 693

Size: 5.5 inches tall

Price: $10.50