Merry Squidmas

This year we got an artificial tree for the first time ever. Malinda decided that it was her lair and enjoyed hanging out underneath it.

Luckily she doesn't bother the lights or ornaments. We wanted to do a sea-creature theme this year, so you can see lots of squids and jellyfish and other marine ornaments. But we didn't have quite enough for this big tree, so David added some others. According to him they are sea walnuts, sea bells, sea hedgehogs, and so forth.

But this one is an octopus.

 And so is this.

And this is a fish (but you can see "sea walnuts" in the picture too).

We had a little gold tinsel tree on the kitchen counter with suns, stars, and moons on it. That one wasn't nautical. We just like suns, stars, and moons.

We did design a sea-creature Christmas card this year, though. This was a rejected design for the card -- it was supposed to look like a Christmas tree, but it didn't look enough like one. It features creatures of the deepest parts of the sea: comb jellies, a piglet squid, the Dumbo octopus. At the top is a kind of sea slug called the sea angel.