Our Tree & other artistic pursuits......

We finally got our Christmas tree!! Yesterday evening while Jon & I were helping Ashley pack & bringing her home......Clay, Michael & Alli went to get our Christmas tree. They also picked up some Vitos pizzas on their way home to have for our very late supper last night.....about 8pm. So, today I've just piddled....doing stuff around the house. LOTS of laundry. Ashley has been unpacking, putting stuff away & just getting settled back at home. The boys trimmed the tree & got it in the stand & brought it inside this afternoon. I didn't even do the first thing this year. Alli got all the lights on it, but said she couldn't do the beads & get them to hang right. So, I asked Jon to  it a whirl while I was fixing supper. He did an excellent job. I told them they both were 'hired' to do lights & beads from now on!! That was always my job......& one that I never enjoyed that much at all. So, I'm happy to have new helpers. ;-)

 

A little blurry.....

A couple of close-up shots.

Just a few random pages from my Daily Art Journal

Sunday's sermon notes....ending with Brother Jerry's famous quote "Don't (Never) Quit"

And this last one........I was trying to go to sleep the other night.....I don't usually have that problem at all, LOL.....and this song from 'The Sound of Music' kept running through my head. And if that wasn't enough....I laid there & thought out this whole page & how I wanted it to look. I remembered the raindrop stencil that I had made & also the little kitty stamp that had the really long whiskers. Couldn't wait to get up the next morning & work on this page. Pretty bad, huh?!