Last Minute Outdoor Christmas Decoration.

If you happen to have a bowling pin

and a nephew who bowls and wins-

And if you happen to know where the old wooden bat is and a baseball,

and find a few scrappy hats  in with the Christmas decorations,

and some wiggley eyes,

and if you have another nephew who plays the game and pitches, and

you stick bat and bowling pin  at the front door, well, the nephews will be amused that you didn't just go buy a Christmas decoration.

Snow Snow Snow

Well, You Folks out there in the Midwest, the good news is, snow snow snow for the Christmas holidays! The bad news is, you won't be able to go anywhere. Sorry Grandma.  LOVE MISS C.  

Angel Atop My Tree

Angel Atop My Tree
A little girl's creation
Bread dough angel
Sculpted, painted, and carried
Safely home from kindergarden
Thirty-four years ago.
This afternoon the  angel
is lifted out of the box of ornaments.
The putting up and taking down
Over many Christmases has worn away
Its shape and darkened the clay.
But it is still the first to be hung on the tree--
On the highest and the strongest branch.

Christmas Stockings and Children's Art

Stocking Mail Bag

big enough for Christmas Cards...inspired by my grandaughter's art.

(Santa leaping over a large stack of mail while the elves help--one of them Tawnia at the post office!)

Stocking Shoebag.

Friends ...
(All dressed up with bows and ribbons for holiday festivities.)