§ Nativity...

For some time now, I've been thinking of drawing the 'reason for the season'...a nativity. Thing is, I KNOW how much trouble I have with drawing hands. This one, I erased, and erased, and erased some more! In fact, the beginning sketches I show, are the 2nd attempt. I trashed the first one. The day was windy, high winds coming in from the north in front of a cold snap that will take us here on the coast to 40 degrees overnight. Of course that won't last long, it'll be back up near 80 again by the new week's end. Anyway...

After hours of trying to create something that would look a bit reasonable, I said "I'm done with this!" I was happy to say that. It will be a long time before I try something like this again.

I was thinking of drawing Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas, I shoulda.

§ Lights....Camera...Christmas

Life size Nativity in town...

Sunday morning before the football games were televised, I had to get to the store to buy some groceries for snacking and dinner that night. The sun was out, the sky was clear, and before we headed to the store, we drove to a home in town that was shown on the local news. The owner of the home has annually created a Christmas yard display...adding to it every year. I admit, we were there many years ago, and when we found the house this year, IT WAS INCREDIBLE!! Let me describe it a bit first. In his yard, he builds his own stable, using natural-found things with the likes of palm fronds, spanish moss, driftwood and stone. EVERYTHING he creates is life-sized!

- - -  On the opposite side of town there is a large neighborhood that is called Candy Cane Lane [not just one street, but several] that is decorated with lights!!!!

More of our tree with lights glowing on the decorations - angels, icicles, ornaments and snowflakes...




Ann, at Ann's Snap Edit Scrap showed us a project she tried with Dollar Tree purchases; making gnomes. I thought they were so cute, I had to try it. Altho, I had no beard items, I improvised and used what I had on hand...cotton balls for the beard.