Christmas Collages

As I stated in my last post or was it a facebook status update?? I believe it was the latter...anyhoooo, the kids and I created cinnamon Christmas ornaments last night. They had so much fun and it filled my house with the wonderful aroma of cinnamon!

Busy (& excited!) little helpers

We also brought out a bit more of our Christmas decor. Nowhere near what we have though. A lot of it is still sitting in the shed. Jim has a fondness for the ceramic village scenes. I never really got into them but they remind me of Christmases past, when I was a young child and most all of the older relatives we visited for Christmas displayed them. And they are getting harder to find now. Walmart no longer sells them here, which makes me sad as I've grown to like having them displayed at Christmas. I'm thinking I'm going to buy him some more to add to his Christmas gift this year. He would like that. I don't have to worry about spoiling the surprise here though because I don't think he's ever read a single of my blog postings. 

A small portion of our decor


If you click on the photo above, it should open it in a new window to enlarge it.

It's Christmas, not X-mas...

...or so I always believed. Tonight I came across a web page (I closed it before I could link it here) that explained that the abbreviation of Christmas to X-mas may have actually derived because the western ‘X’ is equivalent to ‘chi’, the first letter of Christ’s name, and a holy symbol, in Greek. I don't know how or if that holds any truth. But I won't feel so irritated if I see it this way. I read many things this evening that I could contemplate and argue, but I'd rather not wind up feeling confused or upsetting any readers.

I'm not sure if it is due to the fact that I completely lost all of my photographs in previous postings or if I'm just feeling a little nostalgic this evening, but here are a few Christmas photo's that I hold dear to my heart. ♥

Camden-2years old

Camden-6 years old, Kainan days old

Kainan-4 weeks old

Kainan-2 years old

And here are some photo's of a little bit of our decorating this year. I have been wanting to try making a "rag" garland and decided this was the time for me to try it out. I like how it turned out, despite my numb and aching fingers. What do you think?
I let Camden put the artificial tree up this year. She put all the pieces together. If you look closely you can see that she misplaced some of the branches. :) But I left it. The kids, one short one in particular, kept adding ornaments to the bottom of the tree in the same spot, but I left it.

 

 

"Rag" Garland I made

Closer detail

Finished product