The Nutcracker
There are two decorations I have a weakness for at Christmas, snowmen and Nutcrackers. I have a nice “little” collection of snowmen statues, but only two Nutcrackers. Seems they are just a little hard to find, which is why I was so happy to find this image on morguefile.com.The original Image is quite crisp and new, so I applied a few textures and finished it with a grunge layer.
Original Image via morguefile.com
Nutcrackers always remind me of the ballet “The Nutcracker” (of course!), I remember seeing this ballet in the eighties with The Australian Ballet and later in the nineties with The Australian Children’s Ballet. It’s one of my favourite ballets mainly because of the music, and a DVD of the ballet gets played at least once every Christmas.And, speaking (or writing) of DVDs, on Friday I’ll be giving some lucky reader a chance to win a Gift Card from Quickflix giving you two months of free Unlimited DVD or Blue-ray rental valued at over $45. I’ve been using Quickflix to rent DVD’s for years (at least three years, it might be even longer), they have a selection of over 50,000 movies and TV series with free postage both ways, best of all no late fees!
From the Quickflix website -
To subscribe for Quickflix services, you must be an Australian resident, at least 18 years of age, have a valid credit/debit card or Pay Pal account and an email address. This is to verify your identity and account information.
On Friday I’ll post the competition details and how to enter info (comments and follows), giving you the week-end to enter. I’ll ask my youngest daughter to draw a random winner out of the hat on Monday. Don’t forget to give me a way to contact you (preferably email) on Monday evening for a mailing address and will post out the Gift Card on Tuesday morning.
There you have it, two free months of DVD rental (without a trip to the DVD shop) for the Summer School Holidays, perfect timing! See ya Friday.
