I actually decorated a little indoors last night and again today. I’m not displaying all my treasures, but a few are unpacked and in place. These pieces are just part of my nativity and this year they are in the china cabinet safely tucked away from the cats. I can’t get the whole display without rearranging or taking them out to photograph. No matter, the most important piece is front and center! 
I’ve thought and thought and wandered around in my head and my hard drive but I cannot find a thing to say or share. Hope your day has been more eventful than mine!
I made all the ornaments and used Corel’s spruce tube to create the branches of the tree. The finishing touch of the strips was accomplished by a PSP script from sheilsoft.com. If you are familiar with actions in Photoshop, now you know what scripts in PSP will do.
p.s. It’s finally feeling like Christmas here. No shorts on this body today, I was scrambling for sweaters and let me tell you, I want my summer back!
Or seen this video? It is from “The Passion of the Christ”, a movie I haven’t brought myself to watch. I had not heard the song by Brad Paisley and Sara Evans either. I could only view the video once as it makes me sad, but I have listened to the song over and over. A friend of mine sent the YouTube link to me and I’m very glad she did. It is a powerful reminder of the reason for the season!
I broke a sweat while walking this afternoon. I’m not complaining about the warm weather at all, just hard to believe I had on shorts and was comfortable on December 7th. No wonder I can’t make myself drag out the indoor Christmas decorations! I will though… um…. better change that to I might! Not that I’m not in the spirit of the season, I’m just lazy beyond words and I don’t mind admitting it!
Betsy said: “The regular rules pertain this week…… just make sure we can find the challenge piece in the final image.”
I copied and pasted what I wrote on the forum when I posted these images to share with my play group. Part of it won’t mean a thing if you don’t use graphic software, but I thought I would keep my words here to remind me what I did to create the glass dish and the peppermints.
Right now the desktop wallpaper offered below is only in 1024 x 768 size cause that’s what my monitor’s resolution is at the moment. If you want to use this frozen mess in another size, give me a holler and I’ll see about resizing it. I’m not sure I can increase the size and maintain any clarity. I can decrease easily enough though. Just view the large size from the thumbnail and save it. One version has a December calendar, I’m liking both, hope you do too!
….. but, I’m stuck! I just can’t finish this one tonight. I was working on some wallpaper for my desktop, was feeling generous and thought I would share. Pssst! You can’t share if you can’t call it done! Maybe tomorrow if inspiration strikes! 
And how was your day?
Wow, the days are still flying by and I simply have no clue where they’ve flown to! I’ve been busy (translation: playing) last night and tonight on creating my own Christmas themed header. I finally called it done just a bit ago before I could change my mind and add or take away something else. I’m like that… just never quite satisfied cause there might be that little something that will make it better. In this case, I’m calling it done…. can’t see another thing I want to do differently, cause I’ve spent way too much time on the darn thing anyway!
When I no longer have the Christmas header visible, I’m adding it here to view so this post will make sense!
