What happened to Santa Claus? Something was wrong with this Christmas
and it was getting worse and worse …
But what can’t be cured must be endured! Or in German: Close your eyes and go for it!!
Got some help in,
and with proper supervision
we got through it.
But remember: He who laughs last lasts longest. (NB: Cee 🙂 )
Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Show us your Christmas.
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.
Linked to Monday Window.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Another Six Word Saturday. More of them here.
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