My parents gave me this beautiful hand carved nativity scene for my First Communion. I think it’s from Mexico. Years later they sent me the Dachshund ornament that I noticed fit right in with it!
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday season!
xo, Moira and Darby
I confess I prefer inclusive cards for the holidays, the "Season's Greetings" and "Peace on Earth." Not everyone is all about Christmas. But Christmas cards actually make up 80% of the card sales. (I do my research) So, I'll include them too ; )
These are some of my favorites from other artists.
Gorgeous Dalmation Christmas card from Art Paw's Rebecca Collins.
Airedale Sleigh Happy Holidays card from Purely Pups. They have over fifty breeds with this design, so if you like it and you're not an Airedale owner, visit their site and click on your breed.
Maltese and Santa Christmas card from painter Jean Batzell Fitzgerald who likes to include a great masterpiece in all her work. She has dozens of breeds too with this and other holiday themes on her site.
"It's a Rottweiler Life" Christmas card from Obey The Purebreed.
Beautiful Black Labrador Retriever Toboggan Christmas card from Amy of Ottertail Art. She has hundreds of Yellow Lab, Black Lab, White Lab, and Chocolate Lab art on her website. You're sure to find the perfect gift for the Labrador Retriever in your life.
A Bulldog Christmas card with a vintage 1911 image of Santa bribing his way inside with a dog biscuit. From Eleanor's Vintage Gift Shop.
The holidays come early on the Internet. And Hanukka actually DOES come early this year, December 5. So, I’m kicking off the gift-giving season today in order for you to shop early and online and solemnly swear to avoid stress this year. I know you can do it! Also, please feel free to contact me if you’re looking for a breed-specific or dog-lover gift that I might be able to find for you while I’m out there virtual shopping myself.
Naturally, I'll start with my own dog art Christmas cards. My Danny in a Stocking Collage has been a big hit with Yorkie lovers.
Rhett, our family's Wirehaired Dachshund, brings tidings of Peace this Christmas season.
Precocious Darby spreads the holiday Joy.
Yesterday’s Whippet poster reminded me of this Whippet Good T-shirt from One Horse Shy I’ve been meaning to feature. It combines everything I love: dogs, the 80s, cool red, black and white design, and humor. Wish I knew a Whippet owner. I could cross them off my Christmas gift list today.
For thousands of more great Whippet gift ideas click here.
Kassi, The Doxie With Moxie, dropped Darby a note to let him know Mary Ludington's new book The Nature of Dogs
I never thought about our closeness to dogs blinding us to their true nature, and I admire Ludington's attempts to "bypass the sentimental layer" we impose on them. But judging from her photos, I think she's set herself an impossible task. Her images are so wonderful we simply fall in love with the dogs, hence blinding us to their true nature. I guess that's the paradox of dogs and love and dog-love.
Anyway, the book looks gorgeous and right in time for Christmas. It would make a great hostess gift for a dog-lover too.
In 2002 photographer Alec Soth and his wife traveled to Bogota, Columbia to adopt a baby girl. While the paperwork was being processed Alec photographed the city in hopes of capturing the “hard beauty” of his daughter’s birthplace as a keepsake for her.
On October 1, Dog Days, Bogota
I discovered this book on Modern Art Obsession – a unique blog from an art-loving Wall Street warrior that I’m definitely keeping my eye on.
