Author Archives: Virtual Brush Box

Food of the outside world, holiday version. Tough Pigs: Eat Your Way Through “The Muppet Christmas Carol” Soberman 2023. ~~~ Decorated Gingerbread CookiesElizabeth Moore ChocolatesPelham AL USA Technical Details Allow me to point out that, in an effort to elevate these from simple cookie snapshots, I attempted to be clever with the shadows. What’s withContinue reading “Holiday Cookies, Food Photography”

Awareness of the outside world, holiday version. Wrong Hands: A Christmas Carol. Abridged version. The rest of the website is equally amusing. Book set aside for my next Bookshop.org order. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. Happy Thursday to those who don’t. ~~~ Archives [Hay Roll Art] Update: Another hay roll tree, LtU&E: Happy/Merry/Peaceful/Joyful/Bountiful. Onwards!Katherine

Awareness of the outside world, holiday version. Whatever: The December Comfort Watches, Day Twenty Four: A Christmas Carol. Plus a bonus repost, Whatever: End of the Year PR Missives From Scrooge & Marley. [Kennings Contest] ~~~ A Get Well gift from a friend (waves hi!) to tide me over while I am out of theContinue reading “My Comfort Ribbon”

Awareness of the outside world, holiday version. The Guardian: A Christmas Carol is not cosy, and its angry message should still haunt us, Vinter 2021. ~~~ Stepping Stone FarmDecember 2025 “The peacock even appears among the animals in the stable in Christ’s nativity.” Tradition in Action: The Symbolism of the Peacock, Elaine Jordan. National GalleryContinue reading “The Traditional Christmas Peacock”

Awareness of the outside world, holiday version. FX’s A Christmas Carol is dark, but the weirdly realistic. Full disclosure. I had the film playing for a while on mute for holiday visuals and read the plot summary on Wiki. The first scene, which I did see, is a lad peeing on a headstone to dissolveContinue reading “Holiday Horsekeeping”

Art of the outside world. Curious Archive: Biblically Accurate Angels: Christianity’s Undisputed Horror Icons, Ashley, 24 February 2023. Hat tip to G of the North. ~~~ Ornaments from Snowflake Bentley. Celebrating the arrival of astronomical winter. Winter Solstice, 21 December 9:03 am CST, timeanddate: Season in Time. Ordered after I found out about the snowflakeContinue reading “Bentley Snowflakes, Glass Art”

Books of the outside world. Project Gutenberg: A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN PROSE BEING A Ghost Story of Christmas BY CHARLES DICKENS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN LEECH. 🌲 🎵 🌲 Shea waved his hand at the lights and decorations on the walls of the restaurant, “It’s a Christmas, Carol.” Carole returned his smile, a bit thinly,Continue reading “What’s In A Name, Fiction Fragment”