Thyme to build a snowman fireplace screen

Well this is it....... I'm starting to switch gears and start painting for Christmas!

This is a snowman fireplace screen.

I have painted 3 of these.

 The lantern in the snowmans hand has a flicker light that lights up!
I painted 2 of the blue ones seen below and gave them to friends for Christmas one year.

We have had a Christmas swap every year with 2 other couples with one stipulation, the gift has to be HOMEMADE and BOTH husband and wife need to take part in the making of the gift!

We have been doing this for at least 12 years with these 2 couples and I must say

it has almost become a contest among us with who can come up with the BEST idea!! 

We usually go out to eat at a nice restaurant then back to one of our houses for coffee and dessert

 ( of course again homemade!!)

We then open our gifts from each other.

I have to say these are the gifts I treasure the most every year because they are handmade with  LOVE!!!

 I came up with the idea for the fireplace screen but used snowman patterns from
Monika Brints 
book called
Snowmen to Melt Your Heart

I don't know what I would do without my husband who spends many hours in the cellar every weekend cutting my wood!!!!

I have another one cut out and HOPE to get it done for the Folk Art Festival of New England Show I'm doing at the end of the month!
Hugs,
Lynn