We love this time of year in the store.  All the baskets are filled with sparkly, shiny, felty, whimsical, handcrafted and just plain lovely ornaments to make you and your home glow from the inside out.  Our all time favourite ornament has got to be the German glass Christmas Pickle (shown above in a basket already half empty as ‘The Pickle’ tends to be a favourite among Stuffers too).

We’re told by The Pickle people that in Germany, the pickle is considered a symbol of good luck. Tuck one of these glass goodies amongst the boughs of your tree and the first to find it is rewarded with and extra present!  We’ve shared this with a total of two friends of German descent, and shipped one off to Germany with a customer, and have had as of yet no confirmation of this actually being a German tradition. No matter, we still love the way it sounds, and we still love The Pickle.

Find your pickle (and your extra present for discovering it) here!