HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

A Happy Christmas to anyone who reads this!  Yes, that is Wells Cathedral and no, we haven't had snow!  This is, in fact, a realistic Christmas tableau at The Swan Hotel.  They have a garden, over the road from the hotel, which overlooks the cathedral.  Great for drinking and sitting out in the summer...

Unfortunately, a few days after I took this photograph, I saw in the local news, that it had been vandalised!  Why do a few mean spirited people have to spoil things for the majority?  Let's hope that 2017 brings more kindness into the world...

SNOW WINDOW

Snow is our latest theme for the gallery window - white snowy peaks and snow covered vegetation.  In Shepton Mallet we have had small flurries of snow with nothing settling.  However, the weather is certainly very cold at the moment so the fur and woollen hats and scarfs sell well as everybody tries to keep warm!

WINTER WINDOW

Now that all the Christmas decorations have been put away, we have given the One Craft Gallery a wintry window.  We haven't had anything but rain lately, so we have made snow our theme, with white trees and snow flakes. Not that we want snow, especially not the appalling conditions that is being suffered in the USA just now.  Those extremely low temperatures must be dreadful and make life so difficult.

I went onto YouTube and watched a video to learn how to make paper snowflakes.  I made some in several sizes and then coated them with melted wax from my wax pot. This made them stronger and translucent so they could hang in the window.  The snowflakes and two white cutout trees were combined to make up our Winter window, as seen below.