OK, so I said I had some more Christmas crafts to do this week.
David and I, mostly it was just me this time, made this banner.
I just printed some letters out on card stock, cut them out and then traced them on some scrapbooking paper. Most of this was too difficult for David, but I thought he would at least help me with the glueing. He’s fascinated by adhesives of all kinds. You should see what he can do with a roll of Duct Tape. (Or Duck Tape as he calls it.)
But David was totally not interested at all in my little project. Well, he did pick out the different paper patterns that I used.
This was actually inspired by a project I found on Because Babies Grow-up .
Boy, do you know how hard it is to find anything Christmas related, craft projects or otherwise, that actually have something to do with Jesus? It’s really pretty sad.
So that was our Merry activity for Wednesday.
A river flows through the little town that we live – I’d say near, but we’re about 2, 657 miles out in the country beyond that town, though our mailing address bears its name. There’s a nice walkway that goes along the river through the center of town, and every year the city puts up a large Christmas lights display along it. You can see them from the road OK, but it’s our tradition to take a walk every year along the riverwalk and little parks that it connects to see the lights up close.
So last night we bundled up and headed out.
The old houses and store fronts downtown have a pretty, Victorian feel, and at the center of town is an old brick factory building that used to house a paper mill. By day it’s an ugly, abandoned industrial lot, but at night during Christmas time it’s lit up with candles in the windows, and looks very picturesque in the dark against the snow. The old mill race is still there along the river, and also train tracks that once brought and took loads from the mill.
If someone would give me a really fancy DSLR camera I’d take pictures of it for you. My Kodak Easy Share reveled nothing but a big, black hole unfortunately.
But the light displays photographed better. Here’s David by the sleigh.
The carousel is my favorite.
This train is actually on the old railroad bridge that goes across the river to the mill.
And then there are these frogs that sit on a dock floating on the river. David loves the frogs. The city places a speaker outside next to the frog display, and you can “hear them” croaking Jingle Bells. I think that’s kind of clever and funny, but then I’m easily entertained.
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