The twins think Santa is the best! They sit on old Santa's lap and tell him just what they want for Christmas.
Description of Coloring Page: Santa, the twins, gloves, beard, fur trimmed hat, holly
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Can you draw Santa Claus? Remember to draw his snow white beard.
Left, "By the North Pole, mid snow and ice, there lives a man who's always nice." Center, "He spends his time, as you will see, just making things for you and me." Right, "I know you'll like him, just because this jolly man is Santa Claus."
Below is a mask that you can wear and pretend to be Santa with. Color it as you wish, cut it out, fold on the dotted lines near the ears and string a piece of elastic through the holes to keep it attached to your face. On this mask, Santa wears a red felt cap with holly and he smokes an old corn-cob pipe. The original drawing is older than 100 years!
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Description of Coloring Page: portrait of St. Nickolas, holly berries and leaves, text "A Merry Christmas To All" big beard
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Did you know that holly grows in practically every country in the world, as there are more than one hundred and fifty varieties, so that some flourish in every climate. The custom of using holly at the winter festival is of great antiquity and is believed to have come from the ancient pagan festivals. It was used at Christmas by the early Christians. According to tradition holly is the bush in which Jehovah appeared to Moses.
"There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a burning bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up." Exodus 3:2
To see what Santa sees, take a pencil and, starting at dot one, draw a continuous line from dot to dot in consecutive order. Where two numbers appear beside one dot, use the dot twice.
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Merry Christmas
M is for mistletoe. If you get caught, you know! E is for evergreen. Prettiest tree ever seen. R is for reindeer that draw Santa's sleigh. R is for ringing the bells Christmas Day. Y is for Yule log that makes a bright fire.
C is for Christmas, a day we enjoy. H is for "Hurrah!" when I get my new toy. R is for "Rejoice." Let our songs reach the sky. I is for incense wafted on high. S is for Santa Claus full of good will. T is for "toe" of the stockings he'll fill. M is for music to gladden the heart. A is for angels that watch from above. S is for "star" whose beauty we love.
What if your Teddy bear was Santa Claus? How would you draw him on the roof top with a big bag of toys? Well, you can draw that with just a few shapes and a sharpened pencil. Then color him in and hang the picture over your bed so you can think of a story to go along with the idea...
A step-by-step drawing of Teddy going down the chimney!
Description of Coloring Page: chimney, snow, rooftop, bricks, bag of toys, Santa, St. Nick, attic window, bells
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Did you know that the popular notion that Santa comes down the chimney personally originated in Germany. It was formerly the custom to have someone impersonate Santa Claus and distribute gifts to children in person. Gradually this custom died out, and the presents were left for them, generally at the hearthstone. As the giver was no longer seen by the children some explanation was necessary, and the youngest children were told that Santa Claus came directly down the chimney, left their presents, and then departed in the same way. Undoubtedly the poem, "Twas the Night Before Christmas," published in the United States in the early days of the nineteenth century, spread the explanation enormously throughout English speaking countries.
These vintage Christmas bell, gift tags come in blue, green, gold and
red. I have cleaned, redrawn and restored these designs for visitors to use personal
crafts only please.
Nobody will deny that a Christmas tree has plenty of backbone, but somehow it doesn't seem to have intelligence enough to use it. Or else it resents the taking away of its roots and the substitution of a shop-made standard that it considers inadequate. As a matter of fact the standards that you can buy in the shops are inadequate for a tree of any size. And so, if the boy of the family is handy with tools, it is up to him to make one.
A very good standard for a Christmas tree - strong, durable, and ornamental as well - may be made from a strip of one-by-two-inch-dressed" lumber 12 ft. long (which costs about a cent and a half a foot), and some pieces of an old dry goods box.
First, saw off from your one-by-two-inch strip four pieces twelve inches long and four pieces eleven inches. These are to make Figs, i, 2, and 4. Make four pieces like Fig. i and two pieces like Fig. 2 ; the notch at the end is cut with a saw across the grain, and then saw out with a chisel.
When these are done, join two of the twelve-inch pieces and two of the eleven inch to form a square frame. The joint is shown in Fig. 3, and it should be glued or nailed, or both, which is safer.
Next make the other two eleven-inch pieces like Fig. 4. These are just like Fig. 2 except that a groove four inches wide and one inch deep is cut in the middle of each. Then they are joined with the other twelve-inch pieces to form a frame similar to the first. The first frame is to go at the bottom of the standard, and the second frame, placed with the grooves tip, is for the top.
Now cut from the remainder of the strip two more pieces twelve inches long. With a compass set at an inch-and-a-half radius, and the center in the exact middle of one edge, draw a half circle on each, and chip it out with a chisel like Fig. 5. The use of these will be described later.
The remainder of the strip will make four pieces eighteen inches long, with a bit left over. These are to stand on their two-inch faces, and the upper edges of each end should be rounded off with a ''block'' plane. Then two grooves are cut in each piece, two of the pieces having the grooves on the upper side and two on the under side, like Figs. 6 and 7.
Now cut from your packing box sixteen strips or pickets one and three-quarters inches wide and fourteen inches long, like Fig. 8. These may be "ripped out" with a saw and smoothed up with a plane and sandpaper.
To "assemble" the standard join
first the two Fig. 6 strips and two Fig. 7. This leaves a hole two
inches square in the center and two strips projecting from each of the
four sides. Place the first square frame that you made on this, so that
its sides will be equally distant from the center, and nail in position.
Next nail the pickets in position so that the lower end of the pickets
will be "flush" with the lower side of the frame. Next, hold the upper
frame, with the grooves up, in position, eight inches above the lower
frame and nail the pickets to that. Fig. 9 shows the complete assembly.
Now give the frame, and the two pieces like Fig. 5 a coat of dark green
paint, and the standard is ready for use. Slip the tree into the square
hole in the base. If the trunk is a bit too large, whittle it to fit.
Then place the two pieces like Fig. 5 around the trunk at the top of the
frame for a clamp, and slip them into the grooves in the upper frame,
and you will find your tree quite ready to stand up and behave.
The finished picket tree stand.
Build a Christmas Tree Stand Box by Gray House Studio.
The Tudor architectural style is the final development of Medieval architecture in England, during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture to England. It is generally not used to refer to the whole period of the Tudor dynasty (1485-1603), but in prestige buildings to the period roughly between 1500 and 1560. It followed the Late Gothic Perpendicular style and was superseded by Elizabethan architecture from about 1560 in domestic building of any pretensions to fashion. In the much more slow-moving styles of vernacular architecture "Tudor" has become a designation for styles like half-timbering that characterize the few buildings surviving from before 1485 and others from the Stuart period.
In this form the Tudor style long retained its hold on English taste.
Nevertheless, 'Tudor style' is an awkward style-designation, with its
implied suggestions of continuity through the period of the Tudor dynasty and the misleading impression that there was a style break at the accession of Stuart James I in 1603. Read more...
Included below are three elevation drawings for building a Tudor doll's house. Also included is an amazing video of Gerry Welch's doll house below. Wow! He's quite talented.
Front and side elevation drawings of the doll's house with measurements.
Front and side elevations including the placement of the timber.
A elevation drawing showing the front of the doll's house swinging open.
"Building a 12th scale Tudor dolls house. A true timber framed dolls house . The plan I am using was found in a old Dolls House and Miniature Scene magazine from about 2009. The plan is by Gerry Welch of Manorcraft who builds wonderful dolls houses for adult collectors. This is my first attempt at building a dolls house." Fantastic Job!
