Christmas Week Is Here

Hi everyone. I hope everyone is having a nice weekend.

Yesterday afternoon and overnight we had some snow. I snapped a few photos this morning before the hubby did some snow cleaning up and the dogs tromped around leaving footprints all over the place.

Can you see the one poor little chickadee is trying to get breakfast?  I walked out and shook the snow off the feeders for him and all his buddies. Funny how some of the chickadees just sit in the trees and do their danger call and some chickadees have no fear and practically land on you when you come near the feeder.

They really are fun little birds.

Before the snow arrived yesterday, I went out to disconnect the electric fence from around the bees. The bears and skunks should be hibernating by now. I also walked around the hive to give it a check, (it's too cold to open it), and I was glad to see the bees have been getting rid of some hive waste out the front. 

This waste means they are alive inside and just doing some cleaning as they are very meticulous about the state of their hive.  If the hive was suffering, cleaning would not be something they'd be up to. And yes there are a few dead bees, but most honeybees only live a few weeks so that is how it should be. If there were a lot of dead honeybees, then I would be worried.

It's hard to believe that Christmas is almost here. It's not many days until it arrives, is it?

For today I want to share another page for Valerie's When One Door Opens Another One Closes challenge at Art Journal Journey.

These birds are  excited that Christmas is almost here.

This page was a lot of fun to make. I started with blue paint and some of  big cardboard snowflakes that came in a package of 50. (And they were marked way down as the craft store obviously wants them gone by the time Christmas gets here.) 

I glued them onto my page, outlined them, and then added a layer of glitter over the page. 

The birds are die cuts that I colored and embellished.  I hand drew, colored and fussy cut the bird houses and the bird feeder.  I also added a few of those shiny little snowflakes because at Christmas some glitter and sparkle is expected.

The birdhouses have a little opening or doorways for the birds to get in.  I think a some of the birds are bringing their holiday decorations back to their houses to decorate because they just realized how little time is left to get it done.

I also want to share one more holiday tag for Pinky's Everything Christmas challenge at Tag Tuesday.

The middle of my holiday stamp didn't transfer clearly, and when I went to overstamp it, I only made that part worse. So I added the hearts and the dots. I left the flowers peeking out at the top, as well as the birds and the skates, and added a small version of this skating boy from TH.

And if you are wondering about the stitching, I photographed the tag on the back of a journal page, but I like how it looked so I left it.

If you celebrate Christmas, I hope you're not too busy to have a little fun this upcoming week. 

Have a great start to the week everyone. Thanks for visiting.