Friday, November 27, 2009

Getting ready for Christmas






Today the children are off to Andrews office to hand out their annual treats. Brogan, Aaron and Olivia are planning to take Noodle and some Bunnies to make it a little more festive. It was a major baking day yesterday with all of us helping older sister with her baking. I have said before that it is clear our Brogan has her Great grandfathers genes. He had his own bakery and had a passion for confectionery. I have brought out our little series of " favourite recipes" for all occasions and seasons. The children also made these beautiful mosaic Christmas cards of Mother Mary and babe. Once they had finished them, we lightly painted over them with some brewed tea. We are feeling the Christmas spirit here . Today we will open our Christmas potpourri that had been sitting for a couple of weeks. Soon the smell of oranges , berries and spices will waft through the home. We are itching to start putting up our decorations...

A peaceful weekend to all my visiting friends...
XX

10 comments:

Tonya Gunn said...

Thank you for sharing some of your Christmas plans. I really like the mosaic cards. They are beautiful. I am going to show them to my children and see if they might be inspired to make some.
Warm wishes.

Unknown said...

Those cookies look scrumptious! My kids made Christmas cookies yesterday and had a blast! And those mosaic cards are such a great idea, thanks for sharing!!

Theresa said...

looks like so much fun!

Kelly said...

Hi Suzanne
All those delicious Christmas cookies - lovely! I am sure all the people at Andrew's office were delighted. Beautiful mosiac cards - what a lovely idea. Have a warm, peaceful weekend, dear friend. Can't believe it is first advent sunday this weekend!

Tammy said...

Oh thank you for sharing this with us.

I am at a loss for words at how beautiful I think the nativity cards are. ♥

Anonymous said...

What a great start to the christmas season. The cookies look yummy and the mosaic cards are just beautiful. I hope everything went well with the festive deliveries.

renee ~ heirloom seasons said...

The festivities are about to begin here too. (In a fairly calm way of course.) I wish I could smell that potpourri!
Hop e you have been very well, and wishing you a wonderful holiday season!

nocton4 said...

so pleased to have spotted your collection of these little books, as it was one of my ideas for our swap LOL
x

EMMA said...

Those christmas cards are amazing!!
I also have two books from the same collection.

Kaedekudasai said...

Grreat blog