Image of Christmas Past

I was enjoying Altered Bits Blog about her collaboration on an art project with her young son.

Yesterday as we were trimming the tree I found this Santa Claus ornament that my young artistic son had made over 20 years ago and wanted to share it with you. It always makes me smile when I find it each year. I guess it qualifies as vintage since it's over 20 years old!

Christmas Give-Away from NuminosityBeads

I've decided to do a Christmas giveaway to help my little pinpoint of light in the blogoshpere to radiate outwards just a speck more and promote readership and involvement to spur me on to sharing ever more of my creative process. So it will become a literal sharing of my work if you are the lucky winner.

What I'd like to propose is that anyone that posts a comment on each of my posts thus far will be eligible for one of my Christmas ornaments similar to the ones in my last post. ( I have several more as well) If you become a follower you are also eligible for the second prize which is a box of Trader Joes's Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels. Current followers are already eligible for second prize.

Prizes will be randomly and fairly drawn from a hat by my unbiased and unbribable husband.

I will need to contact you for an address if you are a winner.

Drawing will take place on Dec 9th.

Ornamentality

I've been holding on to these madeleine molds for awhile now. I was thinking along the lines of some Our Lady of Guadelupe shrines but instead I opted to make these Christmas ornaments.

The tins I picked up in an antique shop in Maine on one of my forays while visiting the folks.

They're nicely tarnished and bear the stamp Made in Germany. I had picked up a book at a thrift store with some great plates of reproductions of stained glass from the Chapel of Konigsfelden in Switzerland from the early fourteenth century. I allowed myself to cut up some of the smaller images. the larger plates I saved for reselling or bigger projects. I also had some Christmas cards that I had picked up at a thrift store here that I used. Now all I need to do to finish up is to put some hangers on them and they'll be ready to go.