Not the best photo, for some reason this room doesn't photograph well. I promise it's pretty in person!
This is a print I purchased last year about a week before Christmas. The same day I got it I took it to the local frame shop to see how quickly I could have it framed and returned. Because of it's size I was unable to have it last Christmas, matted and framed it's 3x2ft and it now hangs in my family room...
I first saw this print when I was just out of high school at a friend's house. I asked his father (his mother wasn't there) where they purchased this print I would like to buy one. The Dad chuckled that it was very expensive and he didn't think I could afford to buy it. I assumed it was hundreds maybe thousands of dollars and out of my reach. It was a local artist in Safford that had painted it...
After that I had seen it once again as a Christmas card, I framed the little 3x5 card and I've had that ever since. Then last year a facebook friend Sally from high school posted a photo of this print, and she was selling them! I never knew the artist was her aunt and she still had a few prints left from the 1,000 copies printed. Right away I told her I would like two!
I ordered one for myself and one for my brother's Mother in law, she always invites us over during the holidays and I thought she would like the print. The print is called, The true meaning of Christmas. I'm not a church going person but I love the print and I like seeing the two Christmas stories coming together in this beautiful artwork.
Christmas for me is a balancing the two stories shown above. Last year I contemplated telling Presley she was jewish. Ok, not entirely true. I was just asking my jewish friends what they tell their kids about Christmas and maybe tell her the same. But it's kind of hard to do when the rest of your family isn't jewish... So for now Jesus and Santa are both alive (in spirit) and well in this house.