Stained Glass Village: Collection of Annalise and Tom Nelson

The Glass Museum is hosting an exhibit called A Stained Glass Village: From the Collection of Annalise and Tom Nelson, and it was totally worth the visit.

There were tiny glass animals and trees....some of which were extremely small. 

I wanted them all!

I desperately want one of these trees but I cannot find them online anywhere.

The collection of villages was incredible.

If the top row was arranged as if on a hill, it'd look like the painted ladies of San Francisco.

The collection is outstanding.

So many animals and spun glass trees.  I am a total sucker for spun glass. 

The Santa and tree are probably no taller than an inch.  And all the wee reindeer.  SQUEEE!

Definitely glad I didn't miss this exhibit!

Glass Museum

I know I've posted the Glass Museum many times, but I just can't help myself.  It's one of my fave places, especially at the holidays.  They always have some kind of amazing special display, plus the annual Glassblower's Christmas. 

Russell asked me what I wanted to do on my bday and I said I wanted to go here.  We took my mother in law and then went out to lunch afterward.  It was a fun day!  

I love glass.  I've always loved glass.  For as long as I can remember. 

Somehow the glass is blown around the glass figure.

I want this so bad!

And these

So beautiful.

That's the Sandwich Town Hall across the street.  Nothing like some Greco Roman architecture in the middle of a quaint colonial town. 😄

Gorgeous paperweight

This is a marble thing where you press a button to make that motor and chain move a scoop that launches a marble when it gets to the top. Then it rolls down the tracks moving other components as it goes.  One of the coolest glass things I've ever seen.

In the gift shop.  The trees and ornaments are part of Glassblowers Christmas.

This is the ornament I picked out for us for this year.  The name of the glass artist escapes me, but they are on the Cape.  

If I could afford it, I'd buy everything in the gift shop.

Well worth a stop if you ever find yourself in the Sandwich area.

Still Playing Catch Up

So I've been trying to continue to squeeze in crafts whenever I can.  I just started a new one called 'diamond painting'.  The kit comes from China, I think, and the instructions didn't translate well to English.  #3 is especially amusing.

Basically it's like cross stitching with coloured plastic squares. 

Teeny tiny plastic squares too, I might add.  This has to be done with tweezers.

You peel back the paper to reveal the design underneath that has a super sticky adhesive.  You match up the symbols with the colour key on the side and place the appropriately numbered colours accordingly.  This is going to take awhile.  

I found a free crescent moon pattern in my cross stitch stuff and had to do it. 

The past few weeks weren't without their bright spots though, despite the overall 'blah' feeling.  My dear friend Miki came over for lunch a couple weeks ago, and Marsha took me out to breakfast for my birthday.  I got to spend said birthday with Russell.  He gave me a beautiful card, we went to my mom's for a bit, then attempted to go to the movies.  The theatre was so hot that we had to leave. There was no way I could sit there for two and a half hours like that.  We tried to see the same movie at another theatre later that day, but the same problem.  So we went home, but stopped at Michael's Crafts so I could do a little shopping.  Took advantage of Cyber Monday with a pretty big amazon order which is always fun to receive. 

 Turkeys showed up in my back yard, en masse, a few days after Thanksgiving.

I was hoping this big ol' Tom would give up a feather or two, but no.

I was pleasantly surprised when a package off cross stitch kits arrived from my daughter in law's grandmother.  What a thoughtful thing to do!!!  My friend Debby sent me three colouring books too, but I forgot to take a pic of them before I put them with my stack of colouring books to do.  I really need to get on that...

And the kids came over for Thanksgiving which was also Val's birthday.  I got some balloons but the stupid latex ones were on the floor by mid afternoon.  

Had to hang a banner, of course.

Aren't she and her hubby just the cutest things EVER?

Some outside shots of our lights.

It's hard to believe that Christmas is already upon us.  Just a few more days!  I am planning on baking a lot in the days before Christmas Eve.  

Are you all ready for the holidays?