This year for Advent I decided to go quite small. For the last several years I have chosen an Advent theme and painted one piece per week for each of the four weeks leading up to Christmas. As the years have gone on I have chosen to go smaller each year partly for space and partly for fun. This year I went all the way to a 2x2 canvas because I thought it would be challenging, and it gave me the idea to also paint ornaments in the same size for fun inexpensive gifts. Pictured above are the four paintings—”Rejoice!”—”Expectant”—”Love, Actually!” and ““Wonderful Counselor, Prince of Peace!” The fun and challenging part about these pieces was the abstract depiction of quite deep and grand words. The titles kind of chose themselves, meaning as I sat painting the titles just came to me. The excited part was choosing how to share them on social media. I wanted to do something different than I had done before. Because Jack and the kids and I brought out a dollhouse decorated for Christmas as a decoration, I thought it would be the perfect sized place to display these tiny paintings. I even found lighted brass easels that created the perfect mood for the pieces and the house. What a fun activity each week this was! It certainly brought out the little kid in me. Below I will attach of few pictures from my Instagram posts as well as a few more images of the pieces on the easels.