December 22

In addition to the daily dishes, baking, cooking, getting our almost two year old out of things he shouldn't be into, hanging clothes to dry, adding wood to the fire, wrapping a gift or two, snuggling by the woodstove to read stories, finishing up some last minute orders to ship, checking on the chickens, cutting some more evergreens to refresh indoor decorations, lacing up skates ~ we have also been up to ~




~ designing a gnome knitting kit for our shop, it includes a hand woven basket, wool for stuffing, enough Peace Fleece yarn for knitting the main body and the skin color, and the pattern ~



~ making three dimensional snowflakes that look lovely hanging from our beams ~

~ inspired by GardenMama, making candied orange chocolate peels. (Can you tell that the children did the dipping?)~

~ discovering that under the chocolate advent calender that my father gave the girls is a plastic mold and wouldn't it be lovely for making miniature beeswax ornaments ~ (how did they discover this when it isn't Christmas yet?)

Blessings and warm wishes during this beautiful time.