Briana Santiago is an Associate Photographer for Christopher Maddox Photography. Check back weekly to keep up with Briana's weekly 'Project 52' posts.
Tis the season, my most favorite of all the seasons! Christmas is upon us! My house has been decorated since Thanksgiving. Our tradition is we pull all the decoration boxes out and then we decorate while we watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
Only to be watched on channel 12 of course! My husband learned that lesson this year. Channel 5, 10 or 15? No. ONLY channel 12 at 9:00am. I don’t care who else says they are covering the parade. No one else does it quite like channel 12.
It’s been a hard time leading up to this season though. There have been a series of not so fun events that have made this a little more difficult than most. Some I can share, like a car accident that I had on the 15th with my daughter. Thank the Lord that she was perfectly fine. I on the other hand had a lovely ER visit and a nice scar forever with me on my chest. I make a horrible patient so needless to say; the ‘slow road to recovery’ does not sit with me well! But I will be just fine.. This also explains my lack of Wednesday posts!
Others of course I cant share on here… And even further are things I am constantly in prayer about for other friends and the ‘stuff’ they have going on.
Texture is this weeks subject. This is a picture of an embroidered tablecloth that my grandparents brought back for me from one of their cruises. Its hand embroidered with all sorts of different thread. It’s beautiful. And I love looking at it. It’s amazing how a few different threads can create such texture on a piece of cloth when being sewn by the hands of an artist.
It’s funny though because when you look on the back of the tablecloth, it’s not so pretty. It looks like one giant ball of thread mess. The colors mix and mesh almost making the color of brown because of the amount of times that they cross over one another.
I started to think about the not so nice things going on in my life. Right now it looks messy and gross when examining all the ‘stuff’ that’s going on. It’s hard on the heart, hard on the pocketbook and makes enjoying a wonderful season like Christmas a little rough. You start to question, “Why? Why now?”
But maybe, just maybe, all these little hard things are beautifully intertwining so that when I see the tablecloth from the other side it makes a wonderful picture. You know the saying, I am sure you do. ‘All things work together for the good.’ Maybe in retrospect this time in my life will have taught me a wonderful lesson. Or maybe its pushing things in my life out cause they were distractions so I can focus on the new year with a clear mind.
Already I am starting to think that these things bad things are happening right now so the distraction of Christmas can make it a little easier to get through. THAT thought makes all the hard a little more easy.
I am looking forward to seeing the picture – 'the good' – that this is all ultimately going to create! I’m looking forward to seeing my tablecloth from the other side.
Always,
Briana
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