My New Trip Around the Sun ~ Wishing the Whole World Peace, Hope, Joy and Love

Like awaiting the advent of the earth's new revolution around the sun marking growing daylight again, and like the anticipation and celebration of a birthday - - the birth of a son, a baby king { "Joy to the world… Let heaven and nature sing." } , I look forward to December 25th because that day also happens to be my birthday when I will celebrate my own annual "new trip around the sun". 

Through the years, I have enjoyed painting and hand crafting my own Christmas cards. This is one of my favorite cards which I made to give to friends & family for Christmas 2000. The painted cards were also tree ornaments since I strung a loop of gold thread through the top of each card.
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The painted Christmas ornament cards I created were based on my original “Tides of Eternity” clock that I designed in the late 1990’s after my sons were born.  ~  I wrote more about my original “Tides of Eternity” design here on my “About” website page and also in my “May The Road Rise to Meet You” blog post.  ( ...and shared some other versions of my ornament here on my *Tides of Eternity Art* facebook page. )


My "Tides of Eternity" clocks illustrate the changing time of day through a series of painted trees that circle the center of the clock face. By coloring the changes in the foliage of the circling tree along with the rising & setting sun, my creation colorfully relates the changing time of one day to the changing seasons of one year.

My original "Tides Of Eternity" creation is a completely hand-painted and hand-crafted working clock that I designed spontaneously in 1998. ~ I now understand it as a sort of "mandala", but at the time when I created it I had never heard the word mandala nor did I know what one is. { In my mind, the process was propelled by something along the lines of the cliché “one day at a time.” …Though through the many layered processes of creating it, it was and continues to be clear to me that I can endlessly find timely and timeless personal and universal meaning in each “Tides of Eternity” piece.​ }

​*Someday I will have to do a more in depth blog about this artwork because there is much more to this creation than could ever show in pictures.

© 1998 Chrissy Breslin Schroeder

Today as I decorate my home and prepare for the wonder and beauty of this season and its anticipation for the 25th of December, I say...

Cheers to Christmas! I am ready for another round...

Wishing the whole world Peace, Hope, Joy and Love...

​…And may all your wishes come true!
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Read more about my hand-painted Christmas Cards in the blog:

“Christmas Cards with Little People in the Season of Peace & Joy”


And in the “About” page linked below:

www.chrissybreslinschroeder.com/about
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