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     Just think, only one month until Christmas.  We are going to get your planning underway by doing a 3-day Christmas/Holiday sale, beginning the day after Thanksgiving at Watergate at Landmark condos.  We have assembled and brought in holiday items from 5 clients:  ornaments, light strings, stuffed toys, wood toys, table decorations, serving trays and plates, table linens.  We have for you several holiday cup/plate sets with snowmen, reindeer, holly.  Also select among the Christmas candles.  Who of you will take home the prelit (white lights) 7-1/2' Christmas tree.  For celebrating by imbibing, we have mugs and goblets.  For egg nog and hot chocolate, we have cups and saucers.  We have set the dining table with a red holiday table cover.  There are also sets of placemats with matching linen napkins.  To get more in the holiday spirits, we have oil lamps.  Yes, we also have holiday wrapping paper and White House ornaments.

     You may appreciate two relatively rare Christmas theme items.  One is an antique Italian 19th century nativity scene under a glass dome.  Notice the shepherd and sheep on the hillside.  Note the holy family in a grotto.  The second is a Salvador Dali framed print of mother and child.  It is hanging on the wall to the right of the Christmas tree.  I you are used to leaving a note for Santa along with a plate of cookies on an antique chair, we have the chair awaiting you.  Vintage items available if you like to give vintage gifts are Ann Lee felt mice figures which we have put on the tree,  Irish Bellek porcelain, Hummels, and Lladros.  We even have a tall spire-like Lenox porcelain Christmas tree topper.

     If you have ever liked colorful ceramic serving bowls and platters, you won't believe how many we have.  In addition to these you will discover salt/pepper shakers, vases, boxes.  Some of the majolica-type ceramics are on the very large side.  Note the 18" tazza supported on three black ravens, which sits on the round glass-top brass framed table in front of the turquoise leather sofa (retail @ $5,600; IOV price @ $1,420), bordered by a pair of beige leather armchairs (retail @ $2,100 each; IOV price @ $680 each).  We have draped 4 sizes of Native American textiles over the back and seats of these chairs.  Complementing them are a group of framed Native American prints and paintings.  These are concentrated on the wall around the checkout table.  

     You will find a playful oval glass table to the right of the sofa.  It has a carousel horse post.  We have two smaller ones as well on the dining table.  Look for the Royal Copenhagen and Royal Denmark porcelain figures and small vases on display shelves.  The 2-bottle silverplate wine bucket sits on the other side of the sofa.  If you are used to sitting at your kitchen countrd on bar stools, we have a pair of very heavy iron ones for you.  Their round seats have just been recovered in black upholstery. 

      Continuing the Native American theme you will discover a formerly very expensive (retail @ $4,200; IOV price @ $1,400) dining set of iron chairs and table base featuring galloping horses.  It has always been indoors, but we moved it to the balcony for lack of space to keep it inside.  Outside we put two new large Chinese ceramic fish bowls (ceramic planters).  There is also a sturdy metal shelf unit for you out there.  For lack of space decided to put the DVDs, CDs, hand tools, and some of the clothes in one of the large closets in the hallway.  The two large Waterford cut lead crystal bowls are brand new in their boxes behind the checkout table.

     Please bring several empty canvas satchels and/or paper boxes with you to put your purchases into.  So, come get in the mood for the Christmas holiday season.  We will be playing Christmas music provided by FM 90.9.