ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 2

Ho, Ho, Ho...

Here you are, on December the 2 th,

visiting me for the Advent Calendar Blog Hop from Jo

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/2021/12/2021-online-advent-calendar.html

I have new felt ornaments to show you...

First, this little guy who is waiting to be sent to his future home, maybe you can guess his destination!

I have got new "not so ugly sweaters". 2021 winter fashion collection.

I loved the red truck loading a tree pictures and was glad to be able to find a way to cut and  sew a small one on this new pattern.

Of course the 2020 reindeer was very popular so many brothers are waiting to gather for the holidays.

Mice are back.

Dogs and cats too, they will be part of my next GG post but I can already show you Chanel (a long story I'll tell you soon).

This year topic is the Christmas tree.

With the kids at home, we put a real tree. On the first week-end of December it's the Telethon show on TV from the Friday evening to Saturday evening and we used to watch it while putting the lights and ornaments.

                                                                                         now

before

But there is only one place in the dining room and it's near the fireplace.

I bought an artificial tree some years ago (feeling too guilty for this poor real tree) and now that the girls are all gone it's my job to put all the pieces together.

I love glass ornaments and playing with the light shining through them, they are the same every year. First the oldest ornaments which have a family story. Real silvered glass my mum get as a gift working for the American Army in Reims in winter 1944. My grand parents used to welcome Betty (we kept in touch with and I was lucky to visit her in Pensylvania in 1985, 41 years later), Rita, Clarence and friends-collegues from Mum in their 3 rooms flat. You can imagine warm memories they bring back.

Memories from holidays too, lovely glass stars we bought in Tyrol and long glass droplets from a glass workshop we visited in Black Forest. Some birds found in a book shop!

Some cross stitch and felt geeses I made,   

and on the top is a kind of star I have attached forever so I don't have to climb on a ladder to put it every year!

We wish you a Merry Christmas!

Joyeux Noël !

Have fun visiting Jo's Advent Calendar every day!

Le calendrier de l'Avent de Jo s'ouvre aujourd'hui 2 décembre sur mon blog avec la présentation de mes bricolages de Noël faits en feutrine, la nouvelle collection de pulls pas si moches et autres chats et dragon...

Comme chaque année, un nouveau thème de discussion, cette fois Jo nous demande de parler de notre sapin de Noël.