What Did You Get For The Holidays?

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

John, o precious visionary, thank you. 

Elle (and Katherine!), you are way too kind! I do go on, don't I?

But, 'you know what?'

When you can go back around the circle, and you find things are real, well--then you realize you are not just blathering nonsense. Look:

Degas hats--

Then

Thiebauld cakes--

Then

Degas again.
(Dancers in Pink, c.1876)

Those dresses--in pink cake frosting, with piped buttercream flowers, no?
Confections.

QED.

I love stuff like that.

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

But I want to see how you fit a cat-laden Roomba into it. 

How about a Grandma Moses-like flying saucer-painter?? (In pink! )

Esther Pearl Watson
www.estherwatson.com

(They might be good to eat, too!)

 

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

These seem almost too easy to mention (as the shapes, colors are almost one-to-one correspondence):

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers, 1865 by Edgar Degas



Cakes, 1963 by Wayne Thiebaud.

[Front-Ranger]

What a treat to wake up to this a.m.! Thank you, friend John...more! more!!

[Kelda]

Docking Manoeuvre                                                      (2:22)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIjE8BVV-VI&NR=1[/youtube]

:laugh

And what a lovely & thoughtful gift from your daughter Lee!


Well I was a lucky girl and from Callum I got the SATC Film DVD, Mamma Mia DVD, I got S7 of The Amazing Race on DVD which is being watched as I type,  a fun Brokeback tshirt with a little cartoon Jack and Ennis on it. Will get a piccie posted of that.

I got some nice underwear from Bravisimo too (I wont post pics of that!!  ) Callum obviously took my hint of the Bravissimo catalogue with the pages turned down of the sets I liked and a note of my size written in the inside cover!! And lots of fun stocking filler things too. My Mum and Callum make up a stocking for me .... I got some girly DIY equipment this year! My mothers doing apparently. I have a flowery hammer, screwdriver (with assorted heads) , tape measure, plyers and carpet knife thingy.

I got 2 digital photframes. I got a pair of birkenstocks I wanted ready for my trip to India, I got a set of vanity case things to store all my junk that clutters up my bedroom - this was from my mum who actually wrote that in the card!!! And some drink and chocs and lots of other little bits and pieces like an mergency ponch and a few pairs of cheap aerings, and candles etc.

I got a gorgeous necklace from my best friend too - which made me cry. She got married in Sweetheart Abbey in Dumfries in August. Her 2 sisters were bridesmaids. She was given from her hubby some jewllery from a local jewellry maker which was inspired by the Abbey - she wore it on her wedding day and she gave the necklace to both her sisters as their bridemaid present.

Well I opened my xmas present from her and here was the same necklace - "To my honory bridesmaid", it said in the card inside. "I really wanted to gove you this a he time, but I was just so skint. Thanks for being a huge part of my special day."

So I was a lucky girl!

[Ellemeno]

Kelda, thanks for sharing the love.  That's a wonderful list. 

I have a flowery hammer too, it unscrews and there are little screwdrivers inside.

And I'm going to IKEA in the next couple of weeks or so, to look at tables and chairs, might buy matching ones to yours! 

[ZK]

The best presee I got was the happiness on my daughters face when she opened her parcels ( a baby g watch and a digital camera). She gave me in return a book calld "A little book for my Dad" Heres a couple of exerts:

"Life doesn't come with an instruction book- thats why we have fathers"

"when toy guides say from three years upward, the upwards bit is referring to your Dad"
That is sooo true

[Kelda]

The best presee I got was the happiness on my daughters face when she opened her parcels ( a baby g watch and a digital camera). She gave me in return a book calld "A little book for my Dad" Heres a couple of exerts:

"Life doesn't come with an instruction book- thats why we have fathers"

"when toy guides say from three years upward, the upwards bit is referring to your Dad"
That is sooo true

Awwww!

Kelda, thanks for sharing the love.  That's a wonderful list. 

I have a flowery hammer too, it unscrews and there are little screwdrivers inside.

And I'm going to IKEA in the next couple of weeks or so, to look at tables and chairs, might buy matching ones to yours! 

 

[Front-Ranger]

These seem almost too easy to mention (as the shapes, colors are almost one-to-one correspondence):

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers, 1865 by Edgar Degas



Cakes, 1963 by Wayne Thiebaud.

How about big-ass farm machinery, friend?

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

Next Christmas, perhaps?? 

Combines silhouetted at dusk
by David Boyer