December Art Gallery 2015

School is out for the year! These are the all the fun winter and Christmas crafts the kids created this month. (Note that I scored 3 craft ornaments for the tree this year!) Curated for your enjoyment!

This first piece was actually originally a performance piece as Miranda acted out the grotesqueness of mindless consumerism by eating the cocoa -- and then to really drive the point home --eating a bit of the glue too. At least that's how I interpreted her meaning, but she's really a little beyond me as a conceptual artist.

The finished work.

During the creation/performance.

James, 12/3/15

James- Thursday 12/10

Tuesday, 12/15

Miranda (with help from Mama), 12/15

Fingerpainting at home 12/15

Fingerpainting at home! Totally his idea and execution. 12/15

12/17


Ornament from James made 12/17


Technically a counting, ordering, coloring, cutting, and pasting activity - but I like it.


Another Ornament from James, even cuter than the first, 12/18


James's Mitten, 12/22


James's Stocking 12/22


Miranda Christmas sticker frame, 12/22

Christmas Past 2004-2009

Some Christmas pictures with our family from the last six years.

Christmas Eve 2004 with my parents

Christmas 2004 with my brother and grandmother

Christmas Eve 2005 with my parents

Christmas Eve 2006 with my parents

Christmas Eve 2006, my last Christmas photo with both of my parents

Christmas 2007 with Kevin's family

Just after Christmas 2007 with Grandma Shute

Parents visiting Charlottesville after Christmas 2007

Christmas 2008

Christmas on the Cape with Grandpa George and Uncle Dickie, 2008

Kevin gifting Grandma Ruth (Andrew and Katie sipping wine), 2008

With Kevin's mom and cousin Chris, 2008

Parents visiting Brooklyn shortly after Christmas 2008

I wrote about Christmas last year, here are some of my favorite photos again:

Kevin and his brother Andrew in NYC 2009

Our first married Christmas at my parents in 2009

My parents, Christmas 2009