Mum's cross stitch of St Nicholas is dug out, last year's trees positioned just so, and the Advent calendar in place.
Remember the angels? They're looking decidedly peaky after a year lying down in a darkened
I like to add something new each year. This year it was three little Christmas gumnut gnomes.
Meanwhile over on top of the
Oof, it's hot today. I went outside earlier to bring a load of washing off the clothesline and heard the familiar rustlethumpthumpthump as a kangaroo, who'd been lazing under a tree behind the clothesline, sprang to its feet and bounded away. Gave me quite a turn, it did. (Which I suspect was mutual).
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I'm enjoying with your kids watching your Advent evolve.
I suspect I may have shrieked if a kangaroo loped off like that !
That cross-stitch is wonderful - so too the gumnut babies all decked out in Cristmas colours.
I also loved the knitted Christmas Puddings (couple posts ago) - there MUST be a display place for them somewhere, surely?????
The thought of a kangaroo behind the clothesline makes me giddy! I love the decorating too. The Santa is particularly wonderful.
Are kangaroos about as big as me?
Yikes a kangaroo! In the yard!!! Wow! Love the xstitch Santa, the softie trees and the beautiful angels! I love the idea of doing a nature table type Advent. Our Christmas season is always so freaking busy(we have to get the house in tip-top shape for guests) that I don't ever get to do something fun like that.
I did, however, play your odd meme game, answers at my blog. That was an odd one!
Molly(in east Texas)
Thanks for sharing you little delights!
I do love that Cross stitch
Aren't mantlepieces great? Good flat surface, positioned so all can see but (in our house) too high for little hands to grabs and break. I set ours last night and htis morning Lucy came in and told me to take it all down because that's where she puts her flowers. Grinch!
I"m rather giddy at the thought of a kangaroo, too. Hot sun, washing on the line, a kangaroo in the yard - a very Aus. kind of a scene.
Getting Stiffy to perk up the angels?
I'm assuming this sounds perfectly acceptable to crafty people.
To us non-crafters it sounds a little lewd...
:)
The mantlepiece is the ONLY surface to get decorated here.
I've been following your lovely dvent legacy! I have been coniving to get to Winterwood for some time now (won't have a car unitl January) and I may well get there sooner with friends. I ordered a gluttonous amount of stuff from Sandra yesterday which Ican't wait to get my hands on, and didn't eventhink to order a book! Now I'll HAVE to go there in person and it would lovely to meet you there Suse xxx
Yesterday was sticky and unpleasant. Eew.
Love the mantle!
I thought you were going to say tiger snake.
Gave me a total flashback experience from years ago when I was bringing the washing in at home. The grass around the line used to be long.
I will now admit that I have recently learned to knit almost solely so that I can make gnomes.
We have no gumnuts in Scotland so I'll either have to use corks as in the original pattern, or improvise...
Your decorations are lovely. And I would love to see a kangaroo, though perhaps with slightly more warning.
I am deeply envious of your family's advent process. Can you remind me next year to ask you about it in November.
"Note to self: buy some Stiffy to perk them up." Sniggersniggersnigger. Do you think I could use that on my breasts?
I want to live somewhere where a kangaroo felt homely enough to lie under a tree near the clothesline. I wonder what they make of us humans and our clotheslines.
I do so love that you have a kangaroo out there.
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