Its a Christmas display Charlie Brown!

 And we got the rare snow fall for Christmas this year although in this pic there is none. Actually it was about 50 Fahrenheit in this pic I took a few weeks ago. Long before Christmas obvious. Oh yeah, these pics are actually pretty recent for a change. Only because I wanted to share with a friend who's totally nuts for Peanuts (The comic strip that is.)  This pic was the best one considering it was also an over cast day so sorry for the dark pic. Couldn't fix it any better with out the risk of overly doing the fixing. But I did PhotoShop an alternative version showing what it would look like with actual snow on the ground. But it looks like the display could use some TLC considering it looks like it could have been quite a while since this scene was painted. Cool none the less. Also I wonder if this was painted by the same artist in that neighborhood that painted these? A previous Christmas post. 

 

 

Original version with out PS snow. 

 

Version with PS snow.

Anyways Happy unusual Merry Christmas. A Christmas to remember indeed!

A house all decked out

A lovely pic of a decorated front lawn in all kinds of Christmas related characters. This guy sure has some excellent airbrushing skills. Not to mention a great eye to produce these wooden cut outs. Could have looked much nicer in Christmas snow but even without, its a really great set up.
Oh and bonus for once I took this shot most recent as in not from 2 years ago. 😜
Their house is very pretty too. 😊

 The conductor guy from The polar express. 🔺

  Scrooge 🔺

 Baby Jesus and family with the Polar express train in the background.  🔺

Winnie the Pooh and friends.  🔺

Holiday detour ahead.

A little post Christmas pre NewYear detour of postings. I just have some of the latest pics of my updated Nativity and some Christmas lights. Haven taken any new ones for a number of years. Not much as changed other then some new angel figures I got recently. Although very nice and flashy but in my opinion cheaper in quality. Yes you have much more flashing action but at the price of the battery power. Oh well. 

Below is a pic of our dining room table with a mini light up Christmas tree without the chandler on. ⇓

Another with changed lights.⇓

Again with the chandler on.⇓
Here you can see our our traditional wreath of Advent and traditional to my parents people, wheat grass grown in small containers. Normally these should be decorated with red, white and blue striped ribbons wrapped around the wheat grass. These unfortunately got a bit sickly. Probably a lack of proper watering, sun or maybe just disease. Oh well, my dad tried.

Little Christmas lights look like little "goal" lights from a hockey game. They twinkle on and off red. Its around this wreath on the window in our dining room. They make a nice starry pattern behind the curtains.⇓

 Another mini Christmas tree. In the dinning room as well, at a corner on top of a glass table.⇓

What our Nativity scene looks like with the main lights out. You can see the small plastic angels shining different colours. Just got the two bottom ones this year and already the batteries are being used up with all the light action they do. Unlike the better quality angels I have at the top that change their lights more slowly.

You can also see the starscape my dad has behind my royal blue starry back drop I made out of a piece I bought at the store once. I also airbrushed that a bit.
We have this displayed in our living room.⇓

The following are various angles of our Nativity scene. Here you can see my hand made palm trees made from foam, cardboard, raffia and discarded nylon remains I collected from my previous job working on site for an inflatable company. Currently I work for my self as a freelancer. 
Any how, the human figures are original from when I was a kid. I had repainted them since the original was just poorly done. The sheep are from various place like dollar stores and fixed up.⇓

As you can see, some of the things I made don't always turn out. That cardboard pond did not stay flat. That manger is something my dad made when I was a little girl. It lights up inside too. A few years ago my dad covered the walls with white papery tree bark. He also covered the roof with water reeds. Looks really cool.

The twin paper angels use to be a Christmas bag from one of my mother's friend who has since past away.⇓

 Another perspective.⇓

From a plastic sheep's view or a plastic sheep dog.  ⇓

You can see that our main and big angel, a former tree topper has lost her shine. That's alright. We'll figure out a solution eventually.⇓

 A final look. ⇓

The end? Probably not. 
Happy NewYear every one. 🎉🎄🎊🎆🎇😺

Time to play catch up again

Time to play catch up again. But that just the way it is, isn't it? When you're busy with things other less important things get tossed aside and get piled up. Nothing really interesting to say. Its more of the same old work of trying to make a bit of cash est so I won't bore you with that.

But please enjoy this pic of Meetso. It was taken sometime after Christmas and you can see one of those many storms we had during this long and harsh winter in the background.

I just had to take that pic since he looked so stunning, looking his best in his full fur coat.

Now of course its another story. Now its like having a small pet musk ox. No matter how much you comb the guy, you still get the fur tangling in the most annoying matted clumps. Going to have to start shaving him soon again. I guess there's a price to pay to look so stunning and warm in the cold months. 

As I wished in my other blog....Merry Christmas.
And yes as mentioned in my other blog Christmas technically lasts beyond December and a bit into January.

None the less, hope every one got lots of presents, got what they wanted and had a nice peaceful one.

Note to self; Got to get around to taking the latest pic of our nativity scene. Its always a work in progress since we as in me and my dad always add something new to it every year. ;)