"Holy Guacamole"

You never know what fun alignment of objects are randomly found together.

Featuring: Tales of Glory Jesus, and by chance some guacamole from the local Tesco.

EPIPHANY

It is Christmas Day today in other continents.

Here is some Christmas toy-art I threw together and a finished couple of weeks ago. The 3 Kings are from the Playmobil Nativity range. Despite what the picture depicts, the set of kings only have one camel between them. I preferred them to have one each as other illustrations on greetings cards, advent calendars etc like to show.

Resurrection Eggs

Easter time is here and chocolate eggs are flying off the supermarket shelves along with lots of other cash in merchandise. There’s even Easter Crackers now – and why not!? Easter is easily perceived by many as the sequel holiday season to Christmas. The commercialism seems to pick up every year.

Rather than cover the typical Easter material fanfare to do with bunnies and baby chicks, we thought that we’d cover something a little different – and educational.

Resurrection Eggs. These are sold in boxes of 12 plastic eggs inside a makeshift eggbox. The plastic eggs each contain a small object reflecting on different Bible chapters from Jesus’ story. The version showcased here is the original Family Life version. Other variants have spawned since the debut, but this seems to be the first draft.

The Holidays are comin'...

Based on the Catholic 'Kneeling Santa' imagery from models and greeting cards.

The Kneeling Santa Depicts Santa Claus/Father Christmas paying Baby Jesus a visit (obviously with the aid of a Time-Travelling sleigh) and paying respect to the child who started Christmas. Of course a Lego figure can bow rather than kneel, so this skit photo was a little improvised....



More Festive fun on the way.. Enjoy.

MIRACLE

A couple of days ago I had started to unpack the nativity set in my living room and was thinking about another Christmas season of using the broken one armed Jesus ornament as the centrepiece.

As I was unwrapping the individual figurines (I bubblewrap my nativity stuff) I unwrapped what I thought was just one of the smaller models, maybe one of the sheep but it wasn’t.

There it was, a brand new unbroken baby Jesus!

For the last couple of Christmases I have griped about how stores don’t sell individual nativity pieces (and nobody on ebay seems to either) and asked around everywhere to get a replacement. No such joy, until this recent comeuppance.

I won’t question how this mystery replacement model found its way into a sealed up cardboard stable and twisted itself in bubblewrap at the bottom of a large decorations box…

Fact is, if I actually bought a replacement Jesus or had one given to me I would have remembered something like that. There also is no way anyone would have gone to so much trouble to plant this on me either considering how I store my decorations very tightly.

To me, this is an unexpected Christmas blessing and miracle. I feel this is certainly a small happy event I have to share with all I know.

God has a great and generous sense of humour