T Stands for ........ Twinkles!!

 Hi everyone, I'm coming to the party late again today - I've been making my last minute Christmas cake ( a recipe I have used for years that has pineapple in it)

I'm giving Paris a miss this week as I want to show you the lights at Dunham Massey (if you remember I showed some of the daylight pics here)

We booked for an early visit and of course there were lots of little children around. Some of the comments we heard made us smile!

We had a hot dog here but hands were too full to take a photo. Must say, we haven't had one for years and don't think we'll be bothering again for a while!

I took advantage of the nearly full moon to give a reindeer a white nose.

The house had series of images projected on to it

The Snowflake garden was one of my favourites 

I just had to show my favourite view in the darkness

Finally, because of course I am here for T Stands for Tuesday at Bleubeard and Elizabeth's 'The Altered Book Lover' blog, we had a decadent hot chocolate.

Just right to warm us up!

All there is for me to say now is that I wish you all a Wonderful Christmas Time, and Thank you so much for every single time you visit. 

Chris

Time for a party

 Hi everyone. It's also time I got on with some Art Journaling. 

While I was hosting AJJ in November I didn't make one single Christmas card. Then with everything else that was going on and a Mojo only popping up in the oddest of places - none of which could be acted upon, I found myself with just a few cards left over from other years.

This last week it has been a Christmas card frenzy. I refuse to buy something that I enjoy making, although towards the end of the week I was looking forward to having made enough.

My deadline was yesterday as we had to take our car for a Winter Check. As it turned out the check wasn't done - the garage told us that something on our car was  being re-called but as the service manager wasn't in they couldn't do anything without his permission - so we have to wait until Monday to know what is going on!

This afternoon having been out to the butcher's this morning and hand delivered some cards I finally had time to clear a space in my craft room (all cards having been made at the dining table)and make this journal page for Valeries's 'When One Door Closes Another One Opens' theme at Art Journal Journey

I found this 13Arts door that really fascinates me. Surely there's a Christmas Party taking place inside. The two paper doll girls are dressed in their best so I'm counting on it. The page, in a slightly larger that A5 Kraft Journal.

I had used the page to clean off a brayer when I was gelli printing.I added some tiny snowflakes and stars using a very old wood mounted stamp and white Brilliance ink. I added some music paper and a piece of white corrugated card. The words are mainly TH ones but the longer one was in an old book.

Now, off to do some blog hopping and commenting!

Thanks for looking, Chris