Favorite Christmas Images

Just to share some beautiful Christmas images I have been collecting on Pinterest, and hope you take a moment to enjoy the season... 

Angel with Lute di Jacopo (Italian Mannerist painter, 1494–1540) source

Luca Signorelli (1441-1523) source

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George Bernard O’Neil (Irish artist, 1828-1917) Hanging the Mistletoe 1892 source

Gustave Brion (French painter, 1824-1877) Christmas Singers Detail 1856 source

Melozzo da Flori (Italian Renaissance artist, 1438-1494)

 Angel Playing the Tambourine source

That is a DOG by the fire! source

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linking to Inspiration Avenue and  the Victorian Era

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Beginning...

to look a lot like Christmas in our house...

Right down to a cute old fairy type elf who watched me make lots of cookies today.  Yes, I burned one last batch thinking the timer was telling me the oven was still on, but it kept beeping because there were cookies ready to be taken out of the oven.  That oven and I had a bit of a communication problem.

The gingerbread men recipe called for unsulfured molasses.  I used blackstrap molasses.  The recipe is here.

Mr. Fairy Elf must have sneaked a crumb of a cookie because his expression looks like a piece of it got caught under his denture.  His little cheeks are so cute and red from the cold ... or did he get into the amaretto again?

Happy Saturday!

A Pause in Advent

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