Get R Done Friday

It's time again for Get-R-Done Friday over at ClassyChassy, so be sure and go by and check out the other great projects and tell Classy thanks for hosting this for us.

As you know this is the first week of Dec and most everyone is decorating for our special Holiday coming up on the 25th. Christmas means different things to different people, some celebrate the Reason for the Season, the birth of Jesus Christ Our Lord and Savior and some simply enjoy the fun and festivities of the Jolly Fat Man who slides down the Chimney and leaves toys for all good little girls and boy. 

I love Christmas, Christmas holds alot of good memories and a lot of sad memories for me, my Momma gave us the best Christmas she could every year, it was filled with love and we were always taught that the reason for the season was to Celebrate Jesus' Birthday. We didn't recieve tons of expensive gifts like the kids do today....I have been guilty of over doing also, wanting my kids to have more than I did, but now as I look back I see I actually had more than they do, money can't buy everything, like joy and understanding...the knowledge of what the season is really about.

Many believe that it is wrong to let children believe the "lie" that there is a Santa, that he takes away from the real meaning, but we were always taught that first and foremost it is to remember Jesus' birth, but just as the Wise Men brought gifts to our Lord, so Santa is God's way of sending gifts to his Children...as a child it made good sense to me and even now I love having both, do I believe in Santa, yes, I believe in the spirit of love and sharing. I believe in God's love for us, didn't he give us the greatest gift of all, that first Christmas over 2000, years ago.

I guess you are saying what has all of this got to do with my Get R Done project this week, well it is more like didn't get her done, I needed to set up my most valued Nativity Scene, it is always the first item to be set up, I have owned this set for over 40 yrs and the manger just fell apart last year so when I stored it I threw the old barn away, planning on buying a new one this year...isn't it beautiful?

How wrong I was, I was just heart broken when I went to our local Wal-Mart to buy a new barn and I discoveried that not only didn't they have a barn, they had no Nativity figurines, I took a walk through the whole Christmas department and there was nothing in the store that let you know it was the holiday to celebrate the birth of Jesus, no wraping paper with the beautiful night scenes of the shepards or WiseMen coming to the manger following the Star, no bags, no cards, no nothing...how did this happen, when did it become only Santas day. So DH will have to make me a barn, until then this is one Get R Done project that won't get done, it will set proudly on my buffet as is.

I did get the bow made for the top of my Precious Moments Bear Nativity Scene

This is one of my favorite figurines, I painted it 30 yrs ago and just love the meaning of it, Santa worshipping the Baby Jesus..giving honor to the true meaning of Christmas

I painted this Santa boot in 1978, I have it setting on my kitchen table filled with silk poinsettas.

I arranged just a few of my special Santas on the buffett, I decided not to unpack my 100s of Santas this year. The tall fellow in the back is a cyprus knee I painted in the 80s, I also painted the 2 bottle. I love my picture of the Santa and Dove I did about 15 yrs ago.

 This is my Rolly Polly Santa I paint several years ago when I was into ceramics, I placed it underglass and added a pine wreath around him.

This is a gourd Santa that I painted many years ago for a craft show, it didn't sell so I brought it home added the base that DH made and a fake Cristmas tree and fell in love with it, so I decided to keep it...Santa's making his list and checking it twice...lol...

These are just a few of the Get R Dones I did while decorating this week, next the Christmas tree, got to get DH to go with me to buy it, I decided the fake tree has to go, I want a real one this year.