I love Christmas time. A time to contemplate life, a time to celebrate God's amazing gift to mankind in the form of his Son, Jesus, and a time to spend time with the people you love the most. I don't like the frantic crowds, fighting for a car park just to buy some food to eat or the fact that the holiday season appears to turn even the most affable person into a grumpy-bum. Sadly, this Christmas snuck up on me a bit. I had my presents sorted ages ago but didn't have a chance to do all the Christmas baking like to usually indulge in over this Christmas period. Thankfully I had a few days off prior to Christmas to unwind from life's usual business and concentrate on Christmas - food, presents, lights and of course, taking tons of photos!
I came home and got to enjoy the preparations with my mummy darling. We've been baking up a storm, creating gingerbread houses (see more later!) and photographing our hearts out!
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| My sister and her friend's gorgeous gingerbread houses...the inspiration for the one we made... |
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| More lights - a winning house in Tmba |
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| Patriotic light display... |
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| Our city hall all decked out in its Christmas finery |
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| My parent's christmas card collection. It is a dying art, sadly so. I can't talk, I only sent a couple out this year. I did send individual texts though... |
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| The lunch my darling mummy actioned while we were busy baking all manner of christmas treats...yum! |
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| The theme for this year...red and white nordic...in case you couldn't guess :-) |
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| Thank goodness for Kikki-K! |
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| Love this babushka doll ornament. Not quite nordic but european |
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| My mum missed her calling - gorgeous table decorations! |
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| Cood feet on Christmas day...good thing we have some festtive socks to keep the tootsies warm! |
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| Evil fruit. Evil I say. My family loves them though...so I try indulge them when I can :-) |
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