YEAR TWENTY-FOUR

TEDDY!

This was the year my adorable nephew Teddy Graham was born! So obviously we needed to have a Snakespoon tribute! Note his box of Teddy Grahams on the sled! AND he was named after Gram! Full circle. Like an Orobouros! Which is a snake! IT'S ALL CONNECTED!!!

YEAR TWENTY-THREE

AWAY IN A MANGER.

Gotta credit my Mom for turning the Manger idea into a wreath. It was tough but worked brilliantly. Not sure if I like the blonde hair on the angel snake, or the baby Jesusnake more...

Oh, and we can't forget the Three Wisnakes (each sold separately!)

YEAR TWENTY-TWO

I have nieces.

These are my nieces, Ellie and Julia.

Well, okay, they're not REALLY my --- they're the SNAKESPOON versio---  Oh, you get it.

And they're adorable.

Both the real ones and the Snakespoons.

YEAR TWENTY-ONE

THE DONALD.

I got a job working in New York City for a few months on CELEBRITY APPRENTICE.  I only saw Donald Trump in person like five times when he would stick his head into the Post Production room.  (Yes, he's really orange.  I should have bought an orange ladle.)  Obviously, The Donald needed to be a Snakespoon.

The hair is just one giant feather.  The nameplate says "MR. TRUMP  Yer FIYED" as he points at you... at yeh....  Whicheveh.

If there were awards for this kind of thing, I feel this would be in the running for something.  I don't know what, but something.

YEAR TWENTY

POE.

I wrote a play called NEVERMORE.  I spent years on it and I finally, after a very long involved process, produced and directed it at a small theater in Hollywood.  I'm very proud of it and it was a great experience.

The family came out to see this one as well, fortunately!  Alas, my grandparents wouldn't be able to make it, so I filmed it one day and gave them a copy.

And that year for Christmas: yup.

This is actually a scene from the play where Edgar Allan Poe finds himself being bricked up, a la CASK OF AMONTILLADO, in a wall.

First, this is pretty impressive workmanship.  I wish my show had looked this authentic.  Alas.....   And yes, there IS a spoon back there, he's just wearing an Edgar Allan Poe mask.  I liken this to people who want to just wear store-bought masks on Halloween instead of using make-up to create a character.  It's a shy spoon.  He likes the dark.  Fortunately.

Do note the raven up top.

And let me pause to say YEAR TWENTY!!??  Seriously!?  We've been dressing up spoons for TWO DECADES!?

God, I love my family.

YEAR NINETEEN

KNIGHT OF THE SNAKESPOONS

The year I got Pepe the Snakespoon, I was with my family at a kitchen supply store - you know, one of those Hammacher Schlemmer-type specialty stores - and I saw this really cool metal soup ladle that had a strainer in the front of it.  It looked just like a knight's helmet and visor.  Luckily for me, I have a family tradition of dressing up spoons.

....I pause briefly to really take that in and think about what other, more normal, people think about us.

Ok, I'm over it.

So naturally, I bought the thing and kept it at home.  Next came the horse, the lance and the flag.

Now I'll be honest here.  This is merely "okay."  I really think more could have been done here.  Although I seem to recall him having arms and he was holding the lance so perhaps its just the photograph that's not doing it for me.....

But the feather is a winner.

YEAR EIGHTEEN

PEPE THE KING SNAKESPRAWN.  SPOON.

I am a VERY.  Big.  Muppet fan.  And after MUPPETS FROM SPACE came out, Pepe the King Prawn became my favorite Muppet.  For obvious reasons.

So after years of hearing me do Pepe impressions, Gram makes Pepe into a Snakespoon.  And really, it's pretty genius.  I mean, adding a lower jaw since the rest of the spoon makes the mouth work perfectly?  And multiple arms in the coat?  Inspired.  The eyes are perfect, the hair is perfect, it's just great.  Bonus points for the colored tinsel on his head.

And note the frog on the floor next to the tree.  I told you it was a thing.