Christmas Krinkles Dash Away Reindeer Collectables

I will be honest and admit that I am just learning about the Patience Brewster Christmas creations.  They caught my eye as I was flipping through a recent magazine.  The tall (twelve inch) reindeer are fun to view and the detail in each of the little elves and other characters make them whimsical and unique decorations.  I thought I'd learn more.

The artist, Patience Brewster, is descended from Pilgrims and her home town is Plymouth, Massachusetts.  As is true for most every artist, success did not come overnight, but her perseverance and help from family members eventually turned her adorable art into these fun collectables.  She calls her funky characters "krinkles" as you will sometimes see them referred to when shopping.

Please read her informative and inspiring story at her "about the artist" page and if you are a writer or illustrator of children's books, she offers a page with advice for those just starting out.

Patience Brewster also offers Christmas tree ornaments and Christmas cards, and, as you can discover at her website, a lot of other things as well.

But first..... check out these cute reindeer!

The Blitzen reindeer is out of stock on Amazon as I write this.  But there is a set of 8 mini reindeer which includes this popular figurine.  It's the 2016 Moonbeam collection which commemorates a decade since the set first hit the shelves.  Each reindeer can be purchased separately for around $32.00, or the whole set can be bought at once for $256.00.  There is no discount there!

Would you have thought of one of Santa's reindeer as being as fluffy as a sheep?  Well, in the imagination of Patience Brewster, Blitzen's entire body is covered in white fur with little red spots, or are those tiny red ornaments?  His big green snow-boots have matching white tufts of fur at the top.

Blitzen looks ready for any windy winter day.  Like all his team mates, he has a hat tied to his head.  His antlers are decorated with upside-down, green ice cream cones.  (Not really, but that is what they look like!)

This is how Ms. Brewster's imagination plays out for the Christmas season.

The wild and whimsical look of these happy reindeer figures would make an unusual addition to holiday decor.  Their sheer size requires a good size space to display them, but there are smaller versions available to hang on the tree as well.

These foot-high reindeer figures are not cheap, but they are worth the money for the Patience Brewster enthusiast.  Slowly add a figure or two each holiday season and build up to the set, if you like.

In fact one figure alone would be quite a conversation starter.

Everything is made by hand and the Patience Brewster company is proud of that.  Each piece is hand made and hand-painted.  Workers add the fluff, feathers and trinkets to each piece individually.  I suppose that is the reason for the price and the lack of availability of these figures around holiday time.  Buy early while supplies last!

Besides offering the beautifully clothed reindeer, other collection themes include cats, characters from the Nutcracker, little elves, a Santa with sleigh and eight reindeer collection.  Amazon offers some of the popular items, or find them at Christmas shops.  

The regular size reindeer ornaments are generally $15 more than the mini ornaments in similar designs.  The links below, at the top, feature the larger ornaments.  The descriptions on Amazon say these measure almost 10 inches tall.  The smaller ones are about half the size.

In the Amazon module you can see the mini-reindeer ornaments on the lower line.   Descriptions say they measure 3x5, but each one will be a little different.

So in general, the minis are half the size of the other ones.

In browsing this collection of the Krinkle Dash Away figures and ornaments, I have found all the necessary and well-known images of Christmas.  There is a Santa figure and eight reindeer, but I don't see the famous Rudolph.  Maybe he is in the works and will be offered at a later time. (Note: now it's "next year" and I still don't find him.)