Today's Flowers: Mums in Red and Green

I was walking through the grocery and stopped to admire the flowers. These mums with their red and green color seemed the perfect touch for the Christmas season.
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The Today's Flowers team suggested we post something for Christmas this week so my last image is a collage of the decorations at my Mom's house. These are decorations we had as I was growing up. Be sure to click the badge when you have finished your visit here and see other flower and Christmas posts from around the world.

Happy Holidays

The Christmas book you see was purchased new many years ago for twenty-nine cents!

His eyes - how they twinkled!

I was looking through my pictures and trying to decide what I would blog about today. I saw the picture of the ice Santa from China on MSN a couple of days ago and thought it was awesome. I'm amazed at those who can take grains of sand as in the pic I posted yesterday or blocks of ice and see "outside the box" and make it come to life. They are amazing artists in every sense of the word. And yet, by the time their work is complete it is already slowly disappearing save for the photographer who has the instinct to capture it on film for the rest of us to marvel at and wish we'd been there.

The gray ice like picture is me. It was created using Paint Shop. I decided a couple of months ago I wanted to try something different from my usual jewelry, card making and scrap booking ventures and thought maybe I could do some altering of my digital photos. You can see I need LOTS of practice and knowing that I haven't tried anymore. Lets face it, a class wouldn't hurt. Hey, it could end up in the Museum of Bad Art I blogged about this week ~ wouldn't that be a hoot!!!