I am looking for a Santa Claus figure that I saw at Knoebel's Grove
(an amusement park in PA).  The figure was Santa Claus scrunched up on
a green sofa, and I think he was checkin over his list.  I cannot find
it anywhere online, partly because I can't remember who made the
thing.  It was probably 8 to 10 inches across, and maybe 6 to 8 high. 
I *think* we saw it in the Thomas Kinkade store there, but it did not
look like anything Kinkade would have done.  Please help!  Are there
any companies that make Santas with very stereotypical faces?  I came
across one company called Possible Dreams.  Some of the Santa faces
look good - but others just look horrendous.  I don't know how to
describe the ones that look bad, but they just aren't cute. They
aren't the steretypical "jolly" Santa Claus we always see.  And they
need to be ceramic of some sort with fine clothes on them - not cheapo
plastic with cheapo clothes.  We are looking to set a scene up where
Santa and Mrs. Claus are getting ready for the big day.  We loved the
reclining Santa (on that green loveseat), but we ant find the company
who made it.  Thanks.

Hello.

I believe that the figure you want is called "Working Late." It is
made by Possible Dreams/Clothique.

Available from collectiblesrome.com:
http://www.collectiblesrome.com/possible_dreams_months.htm

Christmastreehill.com:
http://www.christmastreehill.com/6001213.html

preciouscollectiblegifts.com
http://www.preciouscollectiblegifts.com/shop/buy-gifts-39-collectible-1044.html

Kannimports.com:
http://www.kannimports.com/pos_working_late.html

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search strategy:
google image search:
"possible dreams", santa

I hope this is the figure that you wanted. If not, please let me know
via the "request clarification" feature. Merry Christmas!

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 01 Dec 2003 11:04 PST

Also available from seller on eBay:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&krd=1&from=R8&MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&query=possible+dreams+working+late

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 01 Dec 2003 11:05 PST

Sorry for that typo:
"...from sellers..."

Oh man - so awesome!  I thought I had tried everything to find that,
and have been fruitless.  I'm not a novie with searching, but Dummy me
didn't even think of searching Google Images (I Googled those exact
keywords -- and a billion more -- just wasn't thinking images! Lol). 
Thank you so much though, great answer, exactly what I wanted.  Out of
curiosity, how far into the image search did you need to go?  Thanks!

Thank you for the tip.

I think it showed up twice on the 4th page of images for this search:
"possible dreams" santa
http://images.google.com/images?q=%22possible+dreams%22+santa&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=60&sa=N

Thanks again!
juggler