O Christmas Tree

Lights and carols Smiles everywhere But my heart misses you This Christmas

Our Christmas tree for this year. We were going to buy a new tree as our old tree broke last year and this spare one is really a bit too small for all our ornaments but as we're going to be moving soon, we thought it was better to wait. We still managed to get everything on it in the end, more or less.

Putting the ornaments up I found several my grandmother had given us, as well as some beautiful embroidered Christmas pictures she had made for us that I'd forgotten about. I was thinking of her and everything else that's happened this year when I wrote the haiqua.

With the photo I wanted to try to make it look a little like a Christmas card, so I edited the photo to remove a lot of the detail and make it look more like a painting. I like how it turned out and think I'll get it printed on canvas at some stage for next Christmas.

The collage below shows a few other angles of the tree as well. I used the Diptic app to create the collage. It's one of my favourite apps and well worth checking out if you haven't tried it - would make a good Christmas gift for someone if you've run out of ideas too.

Photos and haiqua © CJ Levinson 2012