Hand Painted Christmas Cards

I got to thinking I really should send out Christmas cards to my clients as a little reminder I am still out here. I don't want to get a "real" job but we are about there.  the frist one below was the test on card stock. I can draw but I am not always happy with the results. I was kinda happy with the results, other people are always more impressed with my art the I am, at least that is what I am telling myself with these.  I did turn to some trusted friends who said the brown frame was too heavy for the light flower...

1st test on card stock.

These were what I sent out, the one with a little brown went to family and my favorite one was in the envelop before I remembered to take pictures
Marry Christmas

Fall Comes to Kingwood...a week before Christmas

I have been here 10 years in January and I think this is the only time I can say we had a fall with real fall color. After the dry hot summer we had I can’t believe we have this much color, I guess the rains we have had in the last month did the trick. I almost fell like I am in the north Georgia mountains…now if we could just do something about it being soooo flat!

The Foyer

Ok, here is the finished foyer. I just love this scene and then the ceiling fan in the living room is on the snowflakes move so soft and slow, I just love to watch it on commercials. Also here is the mantel again (i am going to have to fix the "P" it will drive me crazy) and the tree with the skirt. Hope you all enjoy.

                             

More Christmas Crafts



Before



More Christmas - One of my favorite things we put up each year is a display you will have to see in the next entry. Over a display of trees is a “Cow jumped over the Moon” hanging decoration that has a red Santa hat. Well as this year is blue/silver/white I has to sew him and new hat cause like I said it is my favorite thing at Christmas. So here are the before and after of the moon.
  

 



After



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



I also made stockings, which i do every year cause every year we do a new theme. Now the ornament over the stocking we not picked out to match the fabric on the cuff of the stocking, just lucked up and it matches. Just goes to show you, pick a theme and stick with it and everything will match.



I also made a new Christmas tree skirt. While on our vacation in July we purchased a couple of fabrics for Christmas, Thom picked them out. When it came time to make the skirt I looked at many patterns then remembered I had a wedge template and it made the perfect size tree skirt. So I pulled additional fabrics from my stash and lined them up to go from dark to light to dark and just repeated till I got the 40 wedges I needed. The skirt is not fully quilted, my machine is acting up so after I put it in the shop and get it overhauled I will stipple quilt the shirt.

This years wreaths

Well, this year Thom wanted Blue, White, and Silver as the Christmas colors. I have never liked blue for Christmas but here in the all too warm sunny Texas fall and winter it might make me feel cooler. Here are the 1st two things to get finished. Not my normal style but full and fun.