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.
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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