Our Christmas
Project…
As many of you know, Jim and I love to decorate the
tables for our church’s monthly pot luck dinners. We try to make our centerpieces
interesting and attractive for our congregation. Over the years, we have used beautiful store-bought
silk flowers for all sorts of arrangements and in a variety of containers. We’ve
had back-to-school themes, special holiday arrangement, a Farm Tractor display
(collectibles and hand-made), and recently used a “fishing” theme. Last June,
Jim did Fantasy Birdhouses out of logs with the bark still on them (see the
June 8th article).
This month, we did a little “borrowing” from the older
way of life on the farms and ranches. When it was late fall and continuing well
into winter, long, wooden horse-drawn sleds would be filled with gain or straw
and taken out to the fields for their various herds. Sometimes they used these
long sleds to transport fire wood and even their perfect Christmas Trees.
Jim’s version is a little smaller (a little more than 2
foot long). He used an assortment of various woods. He designed slightly
different animal head runners for each of the 4 “sleighs.” Figuring the angles
for the sides was a little more of a challenge, and then to fit the ends! Wow! I
am always amazed what he comes up with, without a set of blueprints. We decided
to add candles for each sleigh and again, he put his magical lathe to good work.
When he finished, I started searching through my holiday décor
stash and also a visit to Joann’s. I stuffed each one with a vast variety of evergreen
and berry picks, frosted and glazed fruits and many different sizes of pine combs.
It was so much fun.
As I look at these sleighs, I am envisioning them sitting
on fireplace mantels or long dining room tables.
Well, 2018 is rapidly coming to a close. It has been an
interesting year that had many ventures. It was filled with joy and a little
sorrow. But mostly, it was filled with love, excitement and wonder.
Thank you
for joining us through this blog and Facebook. Hope you pop in next year –
never know what you will fine here.
At this time, Jim and I would like to wish you and yours,
a most wonderful and beautiful Christmas.
May God Bless You Always
.
