Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A clay ornament.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A new ornament by Jay Strongwater.

See the rest of our ornaments here.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

An ornament Santa left on the tree last year.

For more ornaments, see here.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A Christopher Radko ornament.

Important side

Back side

Here's a bit of a stretch...while we're looking at a Christopher Radko ornament, here's the "two turtle doves" part of his 12 Days of Christmas garland:

Merry Christmas!

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

Yertle the Turtle ornament.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A copper ornament we got at Indian Market.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

An ornament featuring a turtle petroglyph.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A gourd from Africa and Beyond.

I don't know where in Africa this came from.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A sand painting-like turtle ornament. We recently picked this up in Madrid.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

Another ornament. Etched glass.

We rediscovered this one that had been stuck in a box marked "Stuff" for years.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

An ornament "designed and created of Arizona copper by Dos Damas Designs Inc. Tempe, AZ"

Jerry got this for me on his trip to Arizona.

(The picture of it hanging on the tree didn't show it very well.)

See our other turtle ornaments here.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday, Special Christmas Edition

Here are the turtles on our tree! Some have already been featured in this space.


A Jay Strongwater ornament.

A Christopher Radko ornament.

A metal and enamel ornament.

An unsigned gourd. (A gift from Peggy and Michele)

A gourd signed something like "D Meyer 1999" (It's probably Denise Meyers but her web site is broken when I wrote this. The site shows up (without pictures) in Google's cache.)

A gourd by Robert Rivera.

No tree is complete without a herd of turtles!