Starting to feel a bit Christmassy

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So far none of us seems to have been feeling very much like doing Christmassy stuff. Often in past years the girls have been clamouring to start decorating before December has even arrived, but not this year for some reason. And then once we did finally get the decorations out, we ran out of time and so for a week now the opened box has just been getting in the way in the middle of our living room and we haven’t had time to do anything about it. Of course it goes without saying I haven’t sent any cards, made a cake or done anything else either! The only thing we have managed is to make a wreath, because Little One was adamant that we should have one hanging at our front door, as she saw at several other houses, and we should make it. So yesterday we gathered an armful of bits and pieces and set to. We gathered some long whippy twigs that had blown off our birch tree in the recent windy weather, and twisted them into a circle then secured it with thin wire. Then we threaded in bits of holly, ivy, yew, fir and pine twigs (there has to be some advantage to our neighbour’s enormous pine trees!) decorated it with some bits of ribbon saved in my bits and pieces box, a little bell that came round the neck of one of those Lindt chocolate animals, and some pine cones we painted gold a couple of years ago. In a very short time we had managed to produce something that we were quite pleased with, and it was all free. Now Little One wants to make one for her teacher too. All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2018.