Mon Ami Pink Santa Stocking

Most christmas stockings arrive in the same red and green, which is exactly why a pink one changes the whole mantel. Mon Ami’s Santa stocking sets a cheerful, storybook Santa on a pink ground, so it reads unmistakably festive without matching everything else on the fireplace. Hang it from a mantel hook, a stair rail, a bookcase, or a bedpost and it does the decorating on its own.

It is a natural pick for a baby’s first Christmas, for a child who has firm opinions about pink, and for anyone building a mantel that leans away from strictly traditional. In a row of mixed stockings the pink one becomes the anchor rather than the odd one out, and it is easy to tell whose is whose at six in the morning on Christmas Day. Like the best christmas stockings for kids, it is made to come back out every December rather than be replaced, which is what earns a stocking its place in a family’s box of decorations.

What do you put in a Christmas stocking? Christmas stockings are traditionally filled with small items rather than boxed gifts: candy, small toys, stationery, socks, and in the older custom a piece of fruit at the toe. Most stockings hold items up to roughly six to eight inches, so the filling is chosen by size as much as by theme.