We were headed to the new Costco at Cumberland Mall and stopped by the mall to see the new changes that were made (the mall has been undergoing a several million-dollar restoration). So we took a nice walk around the entire area. Kaybee Toys was going out of business and was pretty much stripped. Abercrombie and Fitch and Kirklands are gone. Lots more boring women's clothing stores. Some fronts still empty.
Anyway, unlike the Hallmark shop at the Avenue at West Cobb, the mall Hallmark store still had some leftover Christmas things at 75 percent off. I bought a white bottle brush tree with small red balls. When I got home I wrapped it with what was left of the silver snowflake garland and topped it with a snowflake ornament. It's now a winter tree in the foyer.
They also had some Marjolein Bastin's "Nature's Sketchbook" ornaments left. This year Bastin had done four winter garden ornaments, frosted with white: a sled, an Adirondak chair, a garden cart, and a mailbox. They didn't have any of the mailbox ornaments and the garden cart had a Christmas tree in it. Both the Adirondak chair and the sled, however, are just winter themed, the chair with skates and the sled with mittens. So I bought them for the table.
I also bought a goofy-looking white cartoony-looking bear who has a blue scarf rather than a Christmasy one.
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