Catartik, can I come to your house for Christmas, please?
I showed this picture to my best mate last night and we came up with comments no one here did
(or even bothered, thanks so much,).
I mentioned that everything was spot on, tho perhaps a bit cheap looking, but the mustache was outrageously and comically large.
It looks like a white version of Yosemite SAM’s lip hair.
He contends that the 'stash is the only real hair, that the wig and beard are fake!
We both agreed that he’s writing ‘Help me! The Elves have…’
My Christmas tree is going up this afternoon. If it turns out satisfactorily, I’ll report back with a photo.
I draw/design my own Christmas cards to send to limited number of close friends.
I’ve done this kinda sporadically. Early on I had a ‘war’ between The Easter Bunny and Santa,
every year the other would respond to the previous year’s card. The only one I still have saved
images of was this one, which was presented in B&W with yellow color added for the gas.
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It was gingerbread making last night. I made the Homer. My girlfriend made the unicorn next to him.
Ha. Those are pretty great, Steve.
One year I custom drew a snowman on the front of each card, no 2 alike.
Don’t want to ever do this again tho. I did about 15 of them. Here’s two of them.
These are scans of the artwork but each drawn card was hand colored (carrot, scarf).
AThose are great Steve. I especially like the snowmen and it reminds me of something ambitious I did one year for Halloween when I insisted that all my scarecrow decorations had to be distinct from one another.
Cool stuff Steve. We do the same thing every year for our Christmas cards. The first year it was a a fun Peanuts style thing I put together on a whim in just a few hours. Since then its become this thing I worry over for a month. A couple of times we hand wrote greetings and that was a pain. Can’t imagine trying to hand-draw and color each card.
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A[quote name=“catartik” url=“/community/t/149638/its-christmas/150#post_4419072”]My wife and I have been in full Christmas mode for a few weeks. Thought I would share a picture of our living room.
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Your home looks so warm and inviting. It disgusts me.
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LOL. Thank you?
Our house looks the way it does because my wife knows how to bring warmth into everything.
I love Christmas, but my sensibilities lean towards the more dark/creepy angle of it and I’m fascinated with the way Christianity absorbed pagan celebrations into christian holidays in order to convert more people.
I thought I would recommend some music that I’m more inclined to listen to around this time of year.
This is a newer album released this year, I particularly like this rendition of O, Tannenbaum:
Midnight Syndicate has a more atmospheric album of Christmas classics. Most of them aren’t viewable on youtube in Canada for some reason, but if you get a chance listen to “Up On A Housetop” by them. I’ll be using it next year for my Krampus theme Halloween decorations. In the meanwhile here is a song from the album I’m talking about:
And of course there is Douglas Pipe’s score for Krampus:
I had no idea Midnight Syndicate had a Christmas album! I shall have to give that a full listen. And Pipes’ KRAMPUS score is really great stuff.
On the more cozy side of the equation, I gave this a spin on vinyl this morning…