Advent = The Coming of Christ into the World.

I'm supposed to be making Christmas tree decorations, we sort of mingle Christianity with Yuletide and have the commonplace celebration, that involves a bit of a Victorian English Christmas, Churchianity and random fun stuff.  Those of you who have met me (if there are any reading this blog who haven't yet), will know I LOVE Christmas.  when I was in the Philippines they celebrate Advent for all the months ending in 'ember' yes really they do??  My kinda style... hot chocolate, Christmas music and the works...

Today I packed my poorly husband off to work, after  abit of 1950s wifely breakfast preparation (I burnt my finger).  I got to talk to both my lovely funny parents today.  It's a lot of fun talking to them via the computer...it's like being back home for a short while.

I/We have decided, I have decided to to celebrate advent this year more purposefully.  I've written out a set of daily things to do in advent of Christmas.  I was very inspired by the art and blogs of others to really do this in my home, one lady had a beautiful idea (if you have kids) of wrapping up 24 Christmas books and reading a new one each night together as a family - I imagine they are short children's stories!

My list isn't super creative...there's some baking, movies, carolling in there...

I did make an Advent Calender - not as nice as some I've seen, but definitely would be approved by any re-cycling association!!

December 1st - Go get a Christmas Tree.

We have named our tree 'Bonsai' he was the runt of the litter..for some reason nobody wanted Bonsai at about 3ft tall he's not so shabby and is asparagus green in colour (I'm obsessed with specifically naming shades of green, I don't know why - just green)?  We found him on a lot and bought him from an old Mexican man with the most beautiful eyes!  He didn't understand my accent.  I waffle on to everyone and they look at me blankly.  Funny (to me only), was the fact that Bonsai is only marginally bigger than The Christmas Tree Stand my husband picked out a few days ago in preparation for the tree.  It is safe to say he loved the stand more than Bonsai, until I put both Bonsai and the stand onto a chair.  Bonsai is a suitable 5 ft tall now and towers above the monstrosity of a TV/VHS machine we own. (I love that we can watch old VHS though with Gregory Peck).  Bonsai caused us a little extra work being so small...he was almost too small for the tree stand (which I found hilarious).  Thankfully our yard is full of stones....oh 'The Stone That Saved Christmas'..sounds like a good story to me...

December 2nd - Decorate Bonsai the Tree.

I couldn't wait till today to do this so I stated last night (we got multi-coloured lights) to go with out pink and multi-coloured tree decor.  Today I am making a pom-pom garland, I did felt some wool balls and threw them onto the tree, but I got 8o pom pom balls for $1 and thought they were very fun and bright -fitting for our crazy tree this year!  I have to make an Angel or Star that my husband gets to put on the tree when he gets home.  He did a little dance around it yesterday, so yes he will be thrilled to have this job!  


I'll leave you with a different version of one of my favourite Christmas hymns... I am going to go finish my vanilla and cinnamon tea...pom poms and angel I think!