Anker Nativity I

Posted on December 11, 2020 by vanbraman

Christmas will soon be here and people are putting out their holiday decorations, including nativity scenes. Some of my Ankerstein plan books have designs for buildings that can be used with nativity scenes.

Over the next two weeks I will write posts about them. The first three will be revisions of posts that I wrote six years ago.

I will start with the smallest design.

Ankerstein Manger - Set 8 - Anchor Building Blocks - Manger - Nativity SceneThis design is built with only the first two sets of Ankerstein blocks. Boxes number 6 and 6A. The building is not large and does not take too much time to build.

This year during my shelter in place I have been building through the Ankerstein plan books and I built this one again earlier this year.

The picture in this post was from about 7 years ago. If you are following me on Instagram my most recent post is of the one I built this year. It looks pretty much the same 🙂

Ankerstein Manger - Nativity Scene - Anchor Blocks Visit my post about Ankerstein to find out more about these colorful blocks.

I hope you enjoy this small structure.

Steven

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A Dozen ……

Posted on December 10, 2020 by vanbraman

Just as an experiment today I left a post on Facebook that simply said A Dozen ……

I had some interesting responses so I decided to have a little fun. Could I find previously used images on my blog to illustrate the responses?

Tastykake donuts, snack cakes, Flowers Foods, Cinnamon donutsDonughts or Donuts

Yellow Roses, November Roses, Thanksgiving Roses, Winter Roses, Pruning RosesRoses

Net Bag Eggs, Egg Cartons, Packaged Eggs, Chinese eggsEggs

mexican tacos, authentic tacos, mexican foodTacos

Kedma Village, White Cat, Israel, Two Color of EyesLong Tailed White Cats

Taiko - Kumi-daiko - Japanese drumming - drum performanceDrummers Drumming

Hostess Holiday Cake, Sprinkles, Holiday Sprinkles, CakesVegan Cupcakes – Sorry Sis, not a vegan one.

dozen, vegan cupcakes, foodMy sister sent me a picture of some vegan cupcakes so I am adding it here.

blog menu bar, blogkeeping, braman's wanderingsBlogs – Well I am writing a blog post about dozens.

Chinese Magnum Bars, Magnum Classic, Magnum Varieties, Shanghai, BundClay I think maybe you meant Magnum Bars instead of Magnesium 🙂

In-N-Out Hamburgers, Number 1, Combo Order, Burger and FriesHamburgerschurrascaria, meat, food, brazilian BBQNo churros, but how about churrascaria.

Alexander Campbell, Restoration Movement, postcards, linen era, Bethany West VirginiaFor Disciples I have a picture of Alexander Campbell of the Disciples of Christ.Walnuts, nut harvest, pick up toolI had to figure out something for a thingamabob – anybody know what this is?

I think I covered most of what was in the Facebook replies.

This was a bit of fun 🙂

Steven

 

 

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