Potluck dinner vignette

Last fall, we finally were able to hold our condo potluck dinners again. And I made another vignette as a door prize at our Christmas dinner. I didn't take step-by-step pictures of the process but you can see how I did an earlier one here. BIG OOPS! Thought I was finished then I realized that I had glued the painting in upside down. Fortunately that was quickly remedied!

Workroom cleanup FINISHED (December 29, 2022)

Now to the hard part...sorting, bagging and putting all my accessories on their appropriate bulletin boards. Very satisfying in the end though when all 24 bulletin boards are back in the closet.

Workroom Cleanup AFTER (December 27, 2022)

What a difference! Not quite finished. I have three KIS shoeboxes of accessories that have to be sorted, bagged, and hung on my bulletin boards.

Workroom cleanup BEFORE (December 24, 2022)

In the past, it was my habit to clean my workroom between Christmas and New Years so I would have a clean spot to work in the New Year. Well, I realized that it's been probably three years since I did that and my workroom was simply unworkable. With all our online garage sales during COVID and a couple in-person ones this past summer, I just kept buying and buying and not bothering to put anything away properly.

Christmas scene for DS Shirley

My sister, Shirley gave me this wonderful Christmas gift box years ago. Then when I bought the Santa and elf from our club Estate sale during the summer, I knew just what to do with them. I cut the box at the two corners and glued in a green carpet on the bottom and dropped side. Glued in the tired Santa in his chair, the table and elf. Still needed a little something so I framed a picture of the sleigh soaring through the air and it was finished. She loved it!

MEE Christmas party

On December 7, MEE held its annual Christmas party on Zoom.

We started by telling "Two truths and a lie" which was great fun and let us know SO much about each other. I even got caught about my BFF Joanne's.

Mine were:

1. I got a birthday card from poet Rod McKuen for my 40th birthday.

2. My daughter Leanne and I walked the rim of the Grand Canyon.

3. I met and spoke with H.R.H. Prince Edward in 1994.

Our gift exchange was wonderful. Local exchanges were handled by volunteers who moved things about and the club paid for the postage for out of town gifts.

My gift was from Kathie M in Calgary!

This wonderful Hallmark TV!

I can always use another Christmas tree!

This lovely Charley Brown Christmas card. Leanne has a great Charley Brown Christmas display so I framed this for her.

December 1991 issue of Nutshell News. Even after all these years, Nutshell News is still my favourite! And this is a special one because....
Years ago DD Leanne lived in Texas and I went to visit her and went to my first miniature weekend. And took one of my very first miniature classes taught by Julian Biggers!

So Kathie just hit every great point!

We had another great game identifying names, characters and actors from Christmas movies. Definitely not my best showing on that one! I didn't even know half of the movies referenced!

Then Joanne read a wonderful Christmas story book to us as she always does.

It was the loveliest evening.

BTW: My lie was 2. My daughter Leanne and I walked the rim of the Grand Canyon. Didn't happen.

Art for a possible new gallery

As miniaturists, we were blessed to know Georgee Prockiw as a member of our club. 

A member of her family recently commissioned the club to sell five of her roomboxes and 24 of her miniature copies of oil paintings by some of the  masters.

I was fortunate enough to purchase three of her paintings:

The Banks of the Oise 2" x 1 3/8"

Weymouth Bay by Constable 2 1/3" x 2 1/8"

Wild Poppies by Monet  2 7/8" x 2 1/4"

They are all so beautiful that I don't know which one I would favour.