My Wall of Santa Paintings!

While I have yet to bring down all the decorations from the attic - I DID begin hanging my Santa paintings a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving.

Every year I add at least one new painting. This year I am doing two.

Actually THREE - two of the same one - so I have one to give at our family's

Chinese Christmas Tree.

Just between you and me - I am hoping my brother in law gets it since the Santa is painting a toy train. And my BIL LOVES and COLLECTS toy trains!

Can you see little Maggie asleep on the love seat?

Talk about having a GOOD life! She is adored and knows it!

This is a 'work in progress' which I sincerely hope to finish within the next two weeks!

Paintings do not HAVE to be finished to get a place on the wall around here!

It's as good a place as any to let them dry!

The Santa for 2010 was painted in July of last year!

It is USUALLY a tradition to paint 'Christmas in July!'

That didn't happen this time with all the work of redoing our bedroom.

I won an award for this one and it hung in North Park Mall last fall.

While NOT a Santa this does look Christmas COLD!

This is Louis Dean's favorite and the one that took the LONGEST to paint!

Painted in 2007 this was the EASIEST!

It was super simple.

Some years I need that!

Another of my all time favorites - and one of the LARGEST!

My LEAST favorite......but once painted the canvas becomes a part of me.

I love it anyway!

I painted this as an 8 X 10 and still regret I did not paint it larger.

Another small 8 X 10.

While not my favorite size to paint - the smaller ones do help fill in the wall arrangement!

While not Santa - it IS a Christmas painting!

Everyone needs a Christmas raccoon!

Or at least I do!

I painted one just like this LONG years ago.

I lost it in the house fire in 1983 so I painted another one last year.

I painted a LOT in 2010!

Not so much in 2011...

Perhaps I will start the 2012 Santa in JANUARY!

I already know which one it will be.....

You see, I CHEATED a bit in my gallery wall.

The 'painting' in the upper right -

next to the very FIRST Old World Santa I painted in 1994 -

and remains my most cherished one -

is a gift bag I found at the Dollar General Store.

I SO want to paint this next year and since I wanted to finish up a totally 'Santa' wall....

I simply framed it.

So my den wall is done!

I am happy with it.

Louis Dean is grateful I haven't hauled all the Christmas 'debris' down yet.

He has enjoyed a quiet day pf playing music and watching football.

I have cleaned house and walked around like I was looking at a blank canvas!

I hung some larger lights around the front door.

My white lights outside stay up year round.

The house is clean.

The stage is set!

Tomorrow morning.......

Let the decorating BEGIN!!