ON THE 1ST DAY OF CHRISTMAS...

Merry Christmas to those celebrating. This post marks the 1st of 8 displaying these original silkscreen Christmas cards courtesy of Martin and Alice Provensen. These were quite the thrift store find spotted by Conn's keen little eye back in the day as a gift pour moi. You may be asking why 8? Aren't there 12 days of Christmas? I thought I scanned all 12 cards and the back showing the credits but 9-12 may have fallen victim to Laptop Meltdown 2008. I'll see if I can hunt them down before January 2 (That's the 9th day of Christmas for the math-challenged) For more of Alice & Martin's work, check out this blog post featuring their Golden Treasury of Myths and Legends and also, there's always Flickr.

And for your carolling, island-style, here's the 12 Days of Christmas submitted by Deb, one of our dear CFC fans:

The 12 Days of Christmas local style!
by Eaton B. Magoon Jr., Edward Kenny, Gordon N. Phelps

1) Numbah One day of Christmas,
my tutu give to me
One mynah bird in one papaya tree....
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2) Numbah Two day of Christmas,
my tutu give to me
Two coconut, an' one mynah bird in one papaya tree.....

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3) Tree dry squid.....
4) Foah flowah lei.....
5) Five beeg fat peeg.....
6) Seex hula lesson.....
7) Seven shrimp a-swimmin'.....
8) Eight ukulele.....
9) Nine pound of poi.....
10) Ten can of beer....
11) Eleven Missionary...
(12) Twelve TELEVISION!