Nuts

[cornerofmadness]

Mom wanted us to go to see the life-sized nutcracker display in Steubenville OH. It's on the streets for a few blocks. We had never heard of this until one of Mom's friends posted it on FB. It ran from just before Thanksgiving til this Sunday. Unfortunately there were tons of events we didn't know about.

Steubenville was a steel town and the home of the famous, expensive Steuben glass. but those are things of the past and the place is a tad sketchy these days. This is a way to bring life back to a dying town and it seems to be working at least a little.

There were so many nutcrackers but not as many stores to go into as you'd like sadly. We did find a fantastic coffee shop Leonardo It was actually part of three shops in an old building (including the Drosselmeyer nutcracker shop) It had a da Vinci theme and some Tesla stuff too. If i lived there I'd be there often.

So here under the cut will be


Mom's game room

More of the game room

MORE of the game room

The haunted house my parents made for me

Dad did this

Village

My flower

We should just start naming these critters

Befana

Italian dude

Scotland

Tsela

Doglover

Clark & Lois

I just love him

Comments

[smittenbyu]

those are great decorations!! Fun nutcrackers!!

[cornerofmadness]

thanks. Mom has a ton of great decorations

[cmk418]

The haunted house display is cool. The pics of yhe nutcrackers are great. Thanks for sharing them with us.

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[suzume]

Oh no! Your link to Leonardo's just links back to your last post! :

[cornerofmadness]

fixed thanks

[suzume]

You got it!

[under_the_silk_tree]

Those are awesome pictures.

Love the haunted house. Your parents are so creative.

The nutcrackers are so cool. It sounds like a great festival.

[cornerofmadness]

thanks.

yeah they are creative both of them

the nutcracker thing was fun

[ysilme]

That Nutcracker display sounds fun, and the variety is really cool! Although it seems only men are allowed to crack 'em? LOL When you said life-sized at first I imagined people in costumes, probably thinking of the ballet or so. We've always had one of the classic red Nutcracker king ones from the Erz mountains during my childhood, and my sisters and I used to play with him like with a doll. I need to ask my parents if he's still around somewhere, he's quite a handsome fellow.
That haunted house is really cool! I particularly love the specs case coffin.

[cornerofmadness]

Yeah I noticed a lot of the female nutcrackers didn't get to be actual crackers. The nutcrackers in the store were from Germany (and apparently made of gold given the price on them) I have a few nutcrackers of my own. I like them.

Dad got creative iwth that specs case