This is our new Christmas pyramid that we bought when we were in Bern. The candles in it, when lit, make the windmill at the top (and therefore the rest of it) spin around. A Christmas pyramid is traditional in Germany/Switzerland/Austria and it's all hand carved out of wood. They come with limitless different designs like deer/nature landscapes, religious scenes, and Christmas-y scenes with snowmen and trees. They were all gorgeous and we took a really long time to decide which one to get but when we saw this one we just knew:
It has little skiers on it!
And is complete with a little woodpile:
I personally love the tree in the middle - it's so neat how the wood is all shaved into little curves and manages to look like a pine tree.
For those of you who can only think of cousin Eddie in National Lampoon's Christmas vacation when looking at the Christmas pyramid ... that's all I can think about too. Thankfully I have no cousin Eddie who can drop in unexpectedly and break mine! These things are not cheap - as is evidenced by the tiny size of ours. If you're so inclined, you can spend up to $1500 on one of these. Some day when we're rich maybe we'll buy a bigger one to compliment this one.
this is beautiful cath! you'll be glad years down the road that you spent the money on it. and it doesn't look too small. lovely!
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