One of the more delightful holiday moments of this talented artist’s past – one that captured the beauty of Christmas for her and inspired “Song of the Cardinal” – is the memory of a scene glimpsed out a window on a winter morning, when two cardinals, a red male and a yellow female, joyous spots of color set against a somber gray day, perched on snow-laden evergreen boughs and sang to each other. A Standard Edition figurine is an open-numbered casting that comes with a Story Card inside an attractive, laminated box that completes the collectability of every Painted Pony.

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