The "Christmas Guessing Game" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Sitting in the living room admiring our beautiful Christmas Tree and all the ornaments and decorations that cover it and surround it.  My wife has been busy for the past few weeks decorating, shopping, baking cookies and preparing for the Christmas meal.  Yesterday we had 14 sitting around the dinner table to share in the Christmas dinner.  It was a festive occasion.  We have been collecting ornaments and Christmas decorations for over 50 years; our entire married life.  I thought I would share some with you, but will also see how observant you may be while viewing them.  I will post photographs of 15 ornaments and decorations and then a second set which are extreme closeups of each of the original photos.  See if you can match them by using the number and letter of the two sets of photos.  Answers are at the end of the photographs.  Hope your Christmas Day was filled with joy and excitement and may the joy of Christ be with all of you.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.

#1.  Our daughter Brynn made this ornament in elementary school in the late 1970s.  One of our favorites! 

#2  This antique snowman has been in our collection for many years. 

#3  This is a Russian decoration.

#4  Ceramic ornament from Barbados.

#5  Glass ornament from St. Barts

#6  Shell ornament from Cape May, NJ.

#7  Antique camera that really works...buy can't find film for it.  We now use it as an ornament on the tree.

#8  Wooden carving decorations.

#9  Peppermint pretzels.  Snacks!!

#10  Limpet tree with starfish from Cape May, NJ.

#11  Ceramic decoration hand-crafted in Virginia.

#12  Beautiful glass ornament which was a gift from friends Jere and Sue.

#13  Hand-painted glass ornament from St. Thomas. 

#14  Hand-painted glass ornament from St. Croix.  One of my favorites.

#15  Hand painted Santa rattle that we used as decoration.

Now, try and find a match for each of the above photographs from the close-up views below.  Answers are at the bottom of the next set of 15 close-ups.  PS - You may want to use a piece of paper to write your guesses on, since if you go to the bottom you will naturally look at all the answers and spoil the guesses for yourself.

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I 

J

K 

L

M

N

O

The answers are as follows:  #1/D, #2/J, #3/M, #4/I, #5/N, #6/B, #7/L, #8/E, #9/H, #10/A, #11/C, #12/F, #13/K, #14/O, #15/G