I don't normally write Christmas stories. Because I don't really see the point. I decided to write a story sort of Christmas oriented or gift oriented as I should say.

Golden knobs and red ribbons

By 

Jessica Singleton 

Once upon a time in a faraway village there lived an old Man who made grandfather clocks. He carved the wood by hand and he would melt down gold watches to make the hands and the pendulum. The man was sort of considered a magical by a lot of people because they couldn't imagine how many wrist watches it took to make a pendulum , let alone a series of clock parts. What they didn't know about the short thin man , was behind his home was a great mountain and it was a Goldmine. His wife made jewelry. She mostly made golden pocket watches that were supposed to look vintage. Her name was Anna. She owned One of the most prestigious jewelry stores on the Eastern shore line. Some people said that her husband looked like what they considered Santa Claus. He wasn't any type of Santa Claus he was a real man who just kind of looked  like a gnome. Every year his wife Anna and he would go to the angel tree at that  the Salvation Army would put out and they would pick out as many children as their hands could carry.  They would buy the children as many Christmas presents as were listed. Anything that the children's hearts desired was wrapped in golden wrapping paper and crowned with a red ribbon and a silver bell. 

Then the presents were handed to the Salvation Army for delivery. 

One year when they were out looking for toys and Anna noticed that the little girl she was shopping for was a toddler. The five year old girl  wanted a teddy bear for Christmas. The toy stores  sold every teddy bear that were on the shelves.

Anna really wanted the little girl to have what she wanted for Christmas. 

So Anna ask her husband if he could make a bear. He looked at her and he said I think somehow around the house we probably have just about everything it would take to make a toy but I'd have to carve the wooden bear structure. I guess it would be like taxidermy for toys I suppose. Maybe an hours work. So Anna and her husband went home and her husband took some wood from his shop and he carved a teddy bear. He took an old vintage wool coat that belonged to his mother and he put soft grey wool on the bear. Then he Took a fur coat and cut some of it so that the bear would have furry paws and feet. He took some buttons that he had in the back on one of his old coats. But the eyes didn't seem as lifelike. So his wife Anna Took some old costume jewelry and she found some glass black beads. She made glass eyes for the bear . She made a leather nose and a velvet tongue and mouth. She found a silk blue ribbon and tied it around the Bears neck putting a single tiny silver bell hanging from it. The little girl had ask for help for her mother because her mother was very poor . Anna took a tiny box and filled it with money and wrapped it up and put it in the Bears arms as though it was a gift. The woman put a tag on the present box addressed to the little girls mother. 

Anna noticed that the little girl liked chocolate. So when they were taking the bear to the Salvation Army and stopped off at the chocolate shop in the mall and she filled up a bag filled with chocolates from all around the world . so when the toddler opened her gift she would have the perfect bear that  would offer the perfect gift for the little girl's mother. 

That night the man gave his wife her gift. He had no idea at first what to  buy his wife . they've been married for so long and she owned a jewelry store . Pit's hard to pick out anything for someone who has everything or they can actually make it. He imported a silk scarf for his wife, he bought his wife an emerald ring and on either side of the emerald was on one side her birthstone and on the other side of diamond her birthstone was turquoise he said it was to represent green was for Christmas , her birthstone was for the fact that it was her ring and the diamond was because he loved her and that reminded him of their engagement. He bought his wife a necklace to go with the ring . it was a locket and the keyhole was made of an emerald . he bought his wife a book that was a first edition Jane Austen and he bought his wife a bottle of perfume.

Anna bought her husband a vintage pocket watch of all things but this one actually was vintage and it did come from England. She bought her husband a paperweight for his desk in his office . it was a Waterford crystal bottle with a tiny pewter ship inside of it. And she bought him some shirts and slacks.

A couple days later when it was finally Christmas there was a baby deer outside of their house. Somehow it accidentally ended up on their property. 

When Anna called the park ranger to come pick it up he got out of his truck and he took one look at her and he had a funny look on his face.  because of the way that her and her husband looked. They were a tiny couple the man had a long white beard he had on a red stocking cap and he had found a baby deer behind his house.  he looked at them and they had a present in their hands and they said we were going to go deliver this but we saw this animal.  we come out of our house and well .,.

he smiled at them and he took the deer so it would be safe. When the ranger went back to his ranger station he told The man that works with him the story about a couple that looked exactly like something out of a fairytale and they were in a hurry to go deliver a gift because they had forgot it but they were finally going to deliver it but the only reason that they were in delay and the only reason he had to come to their property was because a baby deer was on their property for years later when the man went home and he told his children about the story-

 they thought he just made up a fairytale to make them feel like he had met Santa Claus but the truth is there really was a Anna and her husband .

the end.