8 maids a milking

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A few years ago I started buying beautiful baubles that were loosely connected to the 12 Days of Christmas song (think more John Lewis ‘beautiful’ than the eBay 12 Days of Christmas centrepiece ‘beautiful’ - iykyk)

I’m down to the trickiest ones now, and just feel really stuck on 8 maids a milking. I’ve found a carton of oat milk and a highland cow but they just aren’t my idea of ‘beautiful’. Any creative and beautiful ideas anyone? I’ll pop what I have already below;

vintage golden pear
iridescent white dove
copper hen
glass robin
golden bell
(not found my goose a laying yet)
Roccoco swan
(not found maid a milking yet)
gold dancing slippers
wooden jumping nutcracker
gold cherub with a pipe
* (not found a drummer yet)

thanks in advance!

Not really what you are after but m&s and john lewis both do 12 days of christmas bauble sets

12 days m&s

Or if you have money to throw at individual decorations

8 maids

https://www.fortnumandmason.com/goose-a-laying-embroidered-decoration?&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=PLA+-+Seasonal+-+Generics&utm_term=&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADpHNw0ghV7AlgxJrfU4p8zZIsjj_&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5vXlyov_iAMVjqNQBh2XfARfEAQYASABEgIqNvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

bloody expensive but a laying goose

I love the Amy Swann one, thanks!

I do like that one but, price aside, I don’t love it - I think it’s the crown 🤔. Thanks though, I’d not thought to look at Fortnum & Mason

There's a few here, I'd consider them pricey though
https://www.zazzle.co.uk/maids+a+milking+christmas+tree+decorations?srsltid=AfmBOoq-gEQrQyNr6_aBsxrGQh9Me8xcDRLWA3NAkdCeuSqp1Wthy_Pr&trchd=true

They are a bit pricy but I absolutely have to complete all 12, I just have to!! I half regret starting now tbh. I was so smug at the time and thought I was being outrageously clever!

How about planning to hang all the decorations on twigs/branches of some sort that you stand in an old milk churn and have the churn represent the "eight maids a milking"? You could even paint the dancing maids on to it (assuming you're handy with a paint brush)?

Alternatively, you could perhaps get a milk churn from a dolls house supplies seller (see link below)

https://www.dollshouse.com/small-milk-churn

Or maybe look out for (or have a carpenter make you) a little three-legged stool to use an an ornament.

My artistic skills have not progressed beyond a stick figure sadly, but I like the idea of the twigs in an old milk churn

Omg that’s a really great idea! I would never have thought of this, or anything like it

Oooh can I see a picture/link to your swan please. I tried to buy decorations for the ballets my DD took part in. I have a Nutcracker but need a Swan and something for Romeo & Juliet

Have you checked Etsy? Some very cute designs

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1739358795/maid-a-milking-glass-hanging-ornament?click_key=36d2b6034afb78788cc7f2c7ae9ca8f0971f6ced%3A1739358795&click_sum=58e9f5c3&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=bauble+maids+a+milking&ref=sr_gallery-1-18&organic_search_click=1&pro=1&sts=1&content_source=2d43d2faa3e3e2d22420350d78f59fcd9f97e243%253A1739358795

you can get a goose here

https://www.notonthehighstreet.com/oakdenedesigns/product/greater-white-fronted-goose-hanging-decoration?attributionToken=lwHwlgoMCJ28lrgGELvC-ssCEAEaJDY3MTM4YzVmLTAwMDAtMmQxNi04MjJiLTg4M2QyNGZlNTc1YyobR0ExLjEuMTc0NjEyMDE4MC4xNzI4NDIxMjUyMizFy_MXtreMLajlqi2Y1rctwvCeFaOAlyKOvp0V1LKdFZvWty3ambEvkPeyMDoOZGVmYXVsdF9zZWFyY2hIAXoCd2E&referredBy=search

and there is a drum on the same site but I wasn't impressed with their cows

You can get Vermeer's painting The MilkMaid on a bauble that comes apart to hide a gift in.

https://www.hollandwinkel.nl/en/christmas-ornament-the-milk-maid-7-cm.html

Or if you into Miffy and Kitsch

Miffy dressed as Vermeer's milkmaid (why I don't know)

https://dutchmuseumgiftshop.nl/store/dmgselect/product/miffy-milkmaid-glass-ornament/

Sure! I got mine from Liberty London https://www.libertylondon.com/uk/rococo-swan-ornament-000809325.html

Gisela Graham also does some lovely swan baubles, depending on what you like

A drummer boy

https://www.hallmarkornaments.com/1978-Drummer-Boy-_p_15958.html

https://www.hallmarkornaments.com/2018-Eight-Maids-a-Milking-Twelve-Days-of-Christmas-8_p_24489.html

The Vermeer is more my kind of ‘beautiful’ than Miffy, but it’s nice to know there’s literally a bauble out there to suit everyone 😂

Thank you that is gorgeous! Hoping to go to Liberty's this year, I haven't been for ages, used to go every year.

That is a thing of beauty that either my cat or my children would probably destroy, so I don’t deserve it!

Gisela Graham does a lovely Christmas goose that you can get online. I've one and it's very cute

That’s interesting Hobbes because I was looking at a Gisela Graham goose one but the online picture made the goose look really creepy and odd, and I wondered if it was just a bad picture and it might be cute in real life. Have you got a picture of yours you’d be happy to share?

this is a nice goose one

https://derbyshiregiftcentre.co.uk/products/gisela-graham-glass-gingham-goose-ornament-various-colours

Thanks anon these are cute

The kaethe-wohlfahrt shop has almost every possible bauble you can imagine.
For example, drums:
https://www.kaethe-wohlfahrt.com/en/tree-decorations/glass-tree-decorations/drums/

Cow (for milking):
https://www.kaethe-wohlfahrt.com/en/decorations/incense-smokers/bavarian-cow-smoky/

Goose:
https://www.kaethe-wohlfahrt.com/en/deco/decorative-figurines/goose-on-ice-skates/