Sharing Shadymont, My Mountain Cottage

I've placed a few subtle touches of Christmas around the house and am sharing them with you today. If you are a follower, you know that I'm teaching myself to paint.  I had this canvas that I had painted that looked horrible, so Saturday night I gessoed the entire thing so I could paint over it.  I left it to dry overnight, and had no idea what I would paint on it.  I went down to my little basement craft area yesterday afternoon, and began painting.  First I laid down a green and antique white (blended) background.  Once that dried, I took some cardboard letters I had and tried to spell out " Merry Christmas" with them.  I was missing letters, so I looked for a word that I did have all the letters for, and came up with 'noel'.  I hot glued them to the canvas. and began painting.  I placed a bunch of holly and berries in the corner underneath 'noel'.  Then I painted 2 ornaments on, and then I added the tree limbs to the painting.   ...