Sunday, December 16, 2012

Nontraditional Holiday Images

Yes, sure, I have plenty of cute pictures in my scrapbooks of holiday baking. But this is the picture from this year. I was making cookies and left for about an hour and half. And when I came home, this is what I found! Clara took a picture, and we both laughed because if you can't laugh when you come home to find that your dogs have torn into a bag of flour, then you probably shouldn't have dogs!  I thought it was nice of them to bring it to "their" blanket to play with rather than drag it all over the house at least!
And here's a couple of other non-traditional holiday images I wanted to share:
Carolyn Dube of A Colorful Journey used really fun mixed media techniques on gift bags.  You can see her post here.
Carla Sonheim has a free printable PDF of her unique gift tag.  Read about and access it on her blog at this post.  Finally, the Sunday Postcard Art blog recently ran a "Steampunk Christmas Challenge" which resulted in all kinds of fantastic nontraditional holiday postcards. You can see their top six finishers at this post.
Do you have any links to nontraditional holiday images to share? If so, I'd love to see them.
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15 comments:

  1. laurieDecember 16, 2012 at 6:38 PM

    yes, the holidays definitely have a flip-side! i have plenty of those "images" as well. i'm glad you were able to laugh at the situation with your daughter. that's what makes moments memorable and ok. :-)

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  2. AmyDecember 16, 2012 at 8:20 PM

    What naughty little minxes!
    I was also thinking that your floors were looking good - the part without the flour!

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  3. Carolyn DubeDecember 16, 2012 at 8:40 PM

    How generous of your dogs to give you something to laugh about! What a mess they made! Thanks for the shout out!

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  4. scrappyjackyDecember 17, 2012 at 12:37 AM

    I've a few of those 'fun' dog memories as well!!!

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  5. AnonymousDecember 17, 2012 at 12:48 AM

    This is just so funny. We once had a dog that would steal any food, she even stood on the dining room table and ate Gracia's dinner whilst Gracia was washing her hands and getting ready to eat!

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  6. alexaDecember 17, 2012 at 12:53 AM

    Oh my goodness! Is that all over your new floor? They clearly had a good time and have a loving and tolerant owner! I'm off to explore your links - most of my photos are non-traditional Christmas things because I've not yet got to Christmas :).

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  7. AnonymousDecember 17, 2012 at 1:24 AM

    Oh my, I bet that was fun to clean up. No Christmas pictures, either traditional or non-traditional, yet. I need to get that camera out. :)

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  8. SianDecember 17, 2012 at 4:46 AM

    I like your attitude!

    Non traditional images? You have got me thinking..

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  9. CheriDecember 17, 2012 at 5:29 AM

    OMG Rinda - too funny. At least they contained the mess to one area!

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  10. ElizabethDecember 17, 2012 at 7:14 AM

    Bad doggie! Hope it didn't take too long to get the flour out of his fur.

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  11. MiriamDecember 17, 2012 at 10:07 AM

    I was thinking of the white paw prints all over the house! They must have had such fun! Love the idea of a series of non traditional pictures too. Flour for thought.

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  12. humelDecember 17, 2012 at 1:34 PM

    I'm glad you're laughing about it, because it means I can do so too without feeling guilty! Oh, dear.... Though if your children were younger you could have pretended they were reindeer prints all over the house?!

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  13. Jo MurrayDecember 17, 2012 at 5:14 PM

    Oh my....hope you had some spare flour.

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  14. ComfyMom~StaceyDecember 18, 2012 at 7:55 AM

    LOL! oh my. at least they took it to their spot!

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  15. ~*~Patty SDecember 18, 2012 at 1:36 PM

    I appreciate your sense of humor! Nothing would take place of the flour sack phot LOL

    I also really enjoyed your how you plan to celebrate and do celebrate Christmas

    Wishing you a very merry and sweet Christmas and brightest of blessings in 2013
    oxo

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