Christmastime

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From all of us here on the ole Cart, 

May your Christmas be happy and bright,

and your coming year be the very best kind of interesting.

Yesterday's Table

Owls and Santas, a fox and a wolf, Raggedy twins, celestial friends, and a moose were all sharing space on my worktable yesterday. I couldn't share them with you then though, on account of my camera ran out of battery juice. So today I bravely headed off to find some new batteries amongst all the Christmas shoppers. Target is the closest battery-getting place, so I had to be very brave indeed. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of Target and all, but being there on a weekend in December makes me a little itchy. But I navigated my way through all those people and secured some new batteries for my little camera. Success!

Just a head's up:

We'll only be taking new orders for hand-painted pieces until Monday, December 10.

We'll still be doing the printed ornaments and paper stuff though for a little while yet.

Then we'll be taking a break until after Christmas.

I've promised not to paint anything during my break, my hands need a bit of recovery time I'm afraid. But still, that's gonna be a hard promise to keep! I don't think I've gone more than a couple of days in a row without painting in the past 10 years. Seriously. I'm not even exaggerating. 

How about you?

Is there anything you can't go a whole week without?

Oh, Christmas Tree!

So we went out and chopped down a little pine tree, shoved it into the back of our itty bitty car, dragged it into our living room, and hung an eclectic assortment of non-functional objects on it.

When I pause to think about it for a minute, it's kind of an odd tradition. I like odd.

Red Bear climbed to the top of this year's tree.

Now he's stuck up there until January.

OK, the halls are officially decked. Now bring on the eggnog! 

I'll be at my worktable, making merry and such.

Happy December!