When something is a few notches past scary my friend Sarah calls it Clown Scary. I like that a lot of antique ornaments aren't all sugar plum fairies or saccharine sweet. Even some Santas can look a bit stern, like maybe he hasn't decided which column your name will end up on. We have a motley assortment of vintage clowns for our tree. We didn't pull out all the stops this year with decorating, just the main tree and not all of the ornaments. So some of them are still packed up. The clown head was the first joker, got him at an estate sale. He is quite old, per a Christmas ornament book I have. Also love the clip on guy, he is vintage too. He is in a new clip, as I found him all stumpy.
The trio are of the dozen or so clown ornaments of this same style that we liberated from my husband's family - they decorated his family Christmas tree and probably one of his parent's childhood Christmas trees as well. The other two found at different estate sales - both unfortunately are missing their original tops, I should remember to keep my eye out for vintage caps, either that or break a few vintage ornaments.
