The spirit of Christmas in many languages. Can it stand up to this year’s special conditions?
The huts for the local Christmas market – normally dotted around the market place – shelved until hopefully next year:
Linked to A Photo a Week: Christmas.
Tag: Christmas
Christmas is coming
Linked to Monday Window.
Gnomes not elves for Christmas
All of these gnomes where photoshopped with an online programme called LunaPic. I like their art feature which renders a photo in the style of certain artist like van Gogh, Rembrandt, da Vinci, Gauguin, Renoir … and a caleidoscope and a bauble thrown in for good measure.
This was almost the original (background eliminated):
Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Snapper’s Choice.
Season’s greetings to all fellow bloggers
This is a colour collage for Aino’s Värikollaasit and I’ll like to take this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful time in the coming days and beyond.
Photo challenges have enriched my life and, I think, improved my photography (as amateurish as it is).
But will the cat leave it alone?
We didn’t have a nativity set when I grew up but in Saudi I came upon this strange little house made of the hard middle part of palm fronds (I never knew what its original purpose was) and I decided to make a manger scene myself. First I made the figures out of salt dough, and then I clad them in fabrics which held memories (Mary wears a handkerchief which was given to me by a friend as a parting gift, Joseph is clad in leather which was a hair ornament from France, and so on). The children then added animals from their toy sets (which explains the zebra to the right).
Every year a few things were added, little trinkets I found in the souqs, and particularly for the spendour of the three wise men I had to resort to items from haberdashery shops. It has been in storage for the last years but this year I might bring them all out. Our grandson will be with us for Christmas Eve.
Linked to A Photo a Week: Christmas memories.
Do you not know that in darkness the eyes open wider?
Darkness and Light for Paula’s Thursday Special. Go and check out other’s interpretation of the theme.
The title is a quote from the discworld novel Thud! by Terry Pratchett.
If the hat fits wear it
Another Six Word Saturday. More of them here.
Window strolling
I don’t like the word “window shopping” for this small tradition in our family, it’s a leisurely stroll enjoying the lights and the seasonal displays. It usually happens during the time we call “between the years”, i.e. between Christmas and New Year when all the shopping (and running and rushing) is over.
You’ll find more traditions over at Paula’s Thursday Special.
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