Merryy Christmas

May this Christmas season sparkle and shine. May all your wishes and dreams come true and may you feel this happiness all year round.

Merry Christmas everyone

Textured with a layer of kk_letgo and sharing with

I can see clearly now

I'm following my own advice from yesterday and the world looks a little brighter.

A frame placed in the Christmas tree provided the basic photo but it was a little busy with all the branches and lights, so a "little" processing was needed to remove the distractions.  Filters and textures used are from Photoshop CS6, Photoshop Artistry and Kim Klassen's Dreamit.

Sharing with Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday

Christmas Luminaire

Thanks to my daughter and her Christmas decorating ideas I decided to make ice Luminaires for our deck railing  to light up on Christmas evening.  The idea was to place them in the snow that accumulates on the railing, but with the lack of snow I have to shovel the grass and place the snow on the deck.  First time I've ever shoveled the grass, but it was fun and I'll be trying it again next year with a few modifications.

A little perplexed

I made an animated gif Christmas card for my sister's business and I am a little perplexed.  It posts nicely on this blog, changing colors as it should.  I have resized it to a very small file for the web in hopes that she could post it on her company's Facebook page, Long Branch Trading as a Christmas card for her customers, but it doesn't look like Facebook will show a gif as animated.  She has a lovely gift store and lunch room and I highly recommend that anyone passing through Irma, Alberta make the stop for lunch.

Christmas Cooking

A friend reminded me today that I had to take a snack to the camera club for the Christmas Potluck snack so I baked tonight.