Christmas Memories

"Each Christmas

finds me longing for

Christmases now past.

And I am back in

childhood - as long as

memories last."

 

~ Carice Williams ~

Do you save the ends from

refrigerated cinnamon roll cans? I'd

always thought they'd be good for some sort

of crafting, and last year used them for

stamping. Right now, I'm making them into

ornaments. For this one, I used one of the

smaller round images, a paper doily, clear

glitter, and yarn around the outside:

You can find the complete Victorian

illustration here. I also used an endpaper

texture. The only other images used were

free elements, available on Canva.

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Glimpse of Happiness

 "I caught a glimpse

of happiness, and saw it

was a bird on a branch,

fixing to take wing."

~ Richard Peck ~

 

I used a bird illustration found in a book:

The English Year. Autumn and Winter,

published in 1913. I imagine it perching

briefly, preparing to fly off again.

Typewriter font messages were added to some,

and some were kept blank. I like having the

option to write in another message or a name,

if using as a gift tag. They turned out nicely

as rustic mason jar ring Christmas ornaments.

 

Hope you're all staying well and

staying warm! There was a dusting of

snow here the day after Thanksgiving,

which made it feel like

Christmas Time's a-Comin'.

A final thought...

"The moments of happiness

we enjoy take us by surprise.

It is not that we seize them,

but that they seize us."

~ Ashley Montagu ~

Thanks for stopping by!

Thanksgiving poem

I found a shortened version of this poem in

an antique Reader (see page 94). A few of the

lines were familiar, but I really enjoyed finding

and reading through the original poem and

thought others might as well. The sleigh image

was scanned from my copy of the book.

Paper texture source: The Old Design Shop.

Thanks for stopping by, and

Happy Thanksgiving!