Christmas Tree Decorations

Histon village has a Christmas Tree Festival where many different organizations share something about themselves by creating and decorating Christmas trees.  Our church was urged to take part this year by our minister's wife, who instructed us to be as imaginative as possible.. One member of the church made a wooden Christmas tree with another member painting on each limb descriptions of Jesus...Wonderful Counsellor, Prince of Peace etc.  And each of us was encouraged to make hanging decorations using anything that came to hand.  Like toilet rolls, we were told. 

So, invited to be imaginative, I purchased a couple of plain ceramic decorations from a craft shop. On one star shape I painted with acrylics our church building in the snow (which hasn't yet fallen...actually not for several Winters!)   It was bright and confident in a clumsy way.  Carol did at least seem to recognize it but asked me what I was going to paint on the other side which, honestly, I had thought of leaving blank.

On the reverse I therefore painted a blue sky with snowflakes falling.  But, alas, placing the decoration down to dry it went splat onto a patch of red paint.  Now our church building resembled an apocalyptic scene suggesting serious climate change. Of course I tried to paint over it. This effort plus a village scene on the second decoration were then diffidently offered.

We have just returned from visiting the festival.  What a riot of ideas and different decorations filled the Methodist church venue!   Yes, true imagination shown by so many different village organizations. And mercifully, our tree was bedecked by so many attractive decorations and mine lurked unobtrusively. Another lesson learned - beware wet paint, but try your best!