My palette for 2015
Last year I did the old-fashioned bulb lights, with some large "bulbs" as package ties. Very effective and nostalgic, but this year everyone's doing it as a motif. So this year I'm going with traditional and classy, various iterations of blue and silver. A cool homage to a winter night.
Stay tuned...
MY CHRISTMAS PROJECT
I started early for Toys for Tots and decided to put a little more effort into it. Got to thinking about Children of Color who rely on T for T for some of their Christmas cheer, and decided to buy Dolls of Color. I'm buying up black and Hispanic dolls on sale and saving them for Toys for Tots. Not sure yet what to do about the boys, but it will come to me.
THE JOYS OF CHRISTMAS PAST
BALTHAZAR IS OVERWHELMED!
On the Raymond Town Common, a few years ago.
On the Raymond Town Common, a few years ago.
One of my all-time favorites, snapped in Deerfield a few years ago before the Rec Department set up the Nativity on the Town Green. I call it, "No Room in the Truck."
A neighbor in Raymond came up with this beauty. Honestly, I wish it were all that simple.
My gift wrap palette for 2013
I'm focusing more on the packages this year, since the diabetes -- can't cook the way I used to, but that's okay. At left, I did a package in kraft wrap, tied with an olive satin ribbon which was threaded through a vintage rhinestone buckle. I imagine you could use a fake rhinestone buckle. Do they make fake rhinestones? My palette for my extended family is plain red with polka-dot ribbon or red polka-dot with plain ribbon. On the middle gift I used an antique glass prism as a package ornament. On the far right, for a child, I used a holiday cookie cutter.
One of my favorite places to go for Christmas cheer is the Natick Mall in Natick, Mass. They do a treatment with giant silver balls and giant silver deer, a theme that runs through the mall.
More Natick gorgeousness, above: a hanging wreath, a birch forest and a traditional tree with deer.