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Advent - how do you do yours?

 

We currently have 5 different ways to count down the days until Christmas in our house.  Firstly my very own calendar which I have had since a girl.  Then there is the Bunny rabbit Christmas house calendar, the Christmas garland calendar, the advent candle and then there is this:

 
This is an ongoing project which each year gets 'tweaked' and added to slightly; a button here, some trim there.  This year it was the stamped numbers.  I have been in love with this set of stamps for several years waiting for the moment when I could no longer justify why I didn't have them.

The stocking advent was inspired by this photo from the Martha Stewart website:

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Tree Festival

 
Here is the Christmas Tree being decorated by my little helpers.

 
And here it is all finished and in position.  We then took the time to go around all the other trees in the church - and as always it was very beautiful.  Outside it was dark and cold and inside it was a hive of activity and twinkling lights.

 

 

 

 
After all our hard work we had to have hot chocolate and marshmallow twizzle sticks!

 
*****Perfect*****