Kelly Aubert send me this lovely bead christmas spider !!
(A
folk legend from Germany and the Ukraine)
Once upon a time, long ago, a gentle mother was busily cleaning the house for the most wonderful day of the year....
The day on which the Christ child came to bless the house. Not a speck of dust was left. Even the spiders had been banished from their cozy corner in the ceiling to avoid the housewife's busy cleaning. They finally fled to the farthest corner of the attic.
T'was the Christmas eve at last ! The tree was decorated and waiting for the children to see it. But the poor spiders were frantic, for they could not see the tree, nor be present for the Christ child's visit. But the oldest and widest spider suggested that perhaps they could peep through the crack in the door to see him. Silently they crept out of their attic, down the stairs, and cross the floor to wait in the crack in the threshold. Suddenly, the door opened a wee bit and quickly the spiders scurried into the room. Thy must see the tree closely, since their eyes weren't accustomed to the brightness of the room...so the crept all over the tree, up and down, over every branch and twig and saw every one of the pretty things. At last they satisfied themselves completely of the Christmas tree beauty.
But alas!! Everywhere they went they had left their webs, and when the little Christ child came to bless the house he was dismayed. He loved the little spiders, for they were God's creatures too, but he knew the mother, who had trimmed the tree for the little children, wouldn't feel the same, so He touched the webs and they all turned to sparkling, shimmering, silver and gold!
Ever since that time, we have hung tinsel on our christmas trees, and according to the legend, it has been a custom to include a spider among the decorations on the tree.
In conjunction to the Christmas day, 2 days more and the theme for Creative Tuesdays is "Festive / Festival ".
The lyrics of
Not too sure is due to in highly & heavily usage in this 2 years or mistake in handling ~ my digital camera Panasonic DMC-TZ3, it seem is half dead.
Butterfly
Put a layer of Pearl paint on the image.
I received this stamped image in one of the previous swap.
Play with stamp, paint and ink for the background.
Hubby brought us to one of the famous shopping complex in town last 2 days.
The faux snow lasted for approximately 15minutes starting from 8pm.
Today's Wishcasting Wednesday, Jamie Ridler ask " WHAT DO YOU WISH TO GIVE?"
Another page for my 'HOME'.
Make the distress tag from transparencies, stamp and heat it with hotgun, distress it with acrylic paint.
I bought this cute lovely journal ~ Zoo Land Schedule @ pinkfoot , Korean at one of the local souvenir shop sometimes ago. Had never turned it into used until last Wednesday. Where I was inspired again by the some of the artist in 365 days 365 inspired (link I got from reading in Jamie Ridler Studio) about the Gratitude Journal.
This is a very lovely journal where every pages are beautifully printed.
(Stocking Ornament that I made for Swap-Bot swap)
