Candle Holders and Winter Holidays

Hi everyone. 

Before I forget to mention it, I want to say thank you to those of you who helped me answer my question the other day about the candle holder. It's really lovely, and I think I like it better as it celebrates another religion. I do think it is a menorah, just not one for Hanukkah. I didn't know there were different types of menorahs. I read quite a bit about it yesterday after reading some comments, and the story behind the 7 branch menorah is lovely. I also learned that Kwanzaa  also has a similar candle holder. That was new to me also. It's only too bad my Mom isn't here to find out this information as she was always curious about the candle holder also. Smile.

I looked up photos online after seeing some for both holidays, and   I  found a very similar candle holder/menorah on an internet search. On Amazon of all places. Not exactly the same along the bottom, but very similar for certain.

And why I didn't do an internet search earlier, I'm not sure. 😣 My limited knowledge of many religions I guess. I do have some far back Jewish ancestors on my mother's side of the family according to our DNA tests, so perhaps that is why my great aunt received it from her husband's family in Sweden. It is a beautiful piece, and I'm glad I have it to put out over the holidays. I could leave it out also. 

Thanks again to everyone for your help.

 Next let me say Happy Winter Solstice! Or if you live south of the equator, happy summer solstice. My page today celebrates winter, so it may not work for anyone who is having summer.

 Tomorrow the days will start getting longer. Smile. I realize it does take awhile before it's even noticeable. 

Today my art journal page is for Jo's challenge at Art Journal Journey. Her challenge this month is Snowy Winter, and you probably already know that.

I started with a piece of black cardstock that I stenciled with some white paint. Then I added these 3 giant snowflakes. I found a package of them last winter at Hobby Lobby in their holiday markdowns for like 60 cents. Since they are light cardboard, I thought they might be useful. As you can see I added 3 to my page.

My background still didn't look complete so I used some sparkly blue spray ink to pull it all together. Then I added the cloth snowflake trim, the felt deer, the gold paper moon and the fox image that I cut off of a sheet of paper. Finally I added some tiny blue foamy snowflakes and the short but appropriate quote.

And lastly for today, I have a winter holiday tag for Michele's challenge at Tag Tuesday.

I found a piece of paper with a very traditional and large Santa face. I was first going to put him on a red painted tag, but then I found the small piece of music on some paper, so I thought that would work great with Santa. We all know the reindeer and his sleigh jingles as he flies along. I added some felt trim, some green (although it looks blue) metallic paper trim and also the metallic paper bells that I added some paint to.

My post today has became a little bit long again so let me stop here and  wish everyone a great middle of the week.