Rustic Rebel --

Your figurres sound beautiful! Do you have pictures of them online somewhere?

Personally, I wouldn't mind red, as it is such a bright color at such a dark time of year, but it is such a cliche by now... and not a very practical color for someone climbing up and down chimneys all night. ;-)

And when I was growing up, we had a wooden Santa figure (2-d, modern design) that my mother had bought in Denmark, that was dressed in a blue coat. He did have red flowers embroidered on his mittens, though. :-)