Just Another Up-date....

 

 

A Few Little Additions.....

I Hope you will understand, Dear Readers, that I have been doing almost nothing except work on the Christmas Card drawing and it is still not finished. I have not read any blogs or spent time in the internet, and the one tiny exception is that I have kept stitching a little bit each day. We had a big snowstorm on the 18th of December with 16 inches of snow overnight... and so when I was stitching on the little Christmas Tree Skirt, I realized that the village was lacking a snowman! So, as you can see in the above picture, I added one right away!

 

 

And then the next time I was stitching,

 I realized that it needed a "snow deer" as well..... 

But I am afraid it turned out more like a "polar bear deer".....

(See in the above picture!)

 but I am sure this was because the snow was not cooperating!

 

And then, because there was a space that seemed "unpopulated"

 between the houses... 

I thought I would add a Santa....

He is pointing at the star in the sky above!

And because he is pointing.... 

it seemed that there should be someone he is pointing for...

So Mrs. Santa had to come out to see what he was pointing to!

And all this while I was adding the "snow shadows" around the edges too.

And on Christmas morning

(in the middle of a torrential rainstorm that washed away All our snow!)

 I started to stitch the blue sky around the star.

I had a very very quiet Christmas with just my son and me.

 I got a lot done on the Christmas card too!

Here the central star is all surrounded with the blue. 

This was tricky to do because the yellow thread

 is so similar to the color of the mesh, 

it is sometimes difficult to tell where the stitch is!

Now there is just a lot of sky to stitch....

 

Which will take a while!

 

So you can see, Dear Readers, 

I have been doing almost nothing but work on the Christmas Card!

 And because I can't show you that,

 all I can show is the little additions to the Christmas Tree Skirt!

I hope you have all had a wonderful, 

Quiet and Safe Christmas!