F is for Found Objects - Tub of Cake Decorations!

Well, the chicken crown didn't have orange-sauce (see end of previous post), it had pork, orange and cranberry stuffing, so the lack of stuffing was alleviated! However what I thought was goose-fat roast potatoes in the freezer turned-out to be triple-cooked, chunky chips! So I had a very posh Chicken 'n' Chips for Crimbo dinner, but with all the trimmings!

Back in the summer, while sorting out and emptying the cupboard all the bee-keeping stuff and garden chemicals were kept in, I found this little tub; the sort of thing expensive ice-cream or a individual sponge-pudding may come in.

Contents were cake decorations (presumably you entertain the bees while working on the hive?!!), which are a mystery I shall never solve, as I can't ask Mum, but with the childhood decorations in the garage and saved previously (see Blog passim I think), and latter additions in the kitchen (some also seen on the Blog, the Yule-log squirrel from Schleich for instance!), I can't imagine where these came from, let alone why they were in the garden! But we never had a skiing Santa' when we were kids?

In the previous shot you can see the skis are heat sealed onto Santa with plugs coming off the feet. I believe Gem had at least three versions of the ski-equipped figures, removable plug-on/plug-in skis with the plug on the ski (as carried-on with by the Hong Kong pirates), heat-sealed with the plug from the foot (as here) and head sealed foot-to-ski without plug (on the Blog somewhere), which may have been part of their experiments with over-moulding?

Anyway, it's a "Ho-Ho-Ho Merry Christmas!" from Santa Clause!