Thanks so much for the good wishes, Amy's school play was wonderful and I did cry buckets!
We're now in the last week before the schools break up and so it's really the last chance to get all the christmas shopping and preparation done before my little lovelies suck up all my free time! The trouble is I can't seem to motivate myself to go and join the fray. I'm happy here in a peaceful house with my quiet knitting. I do feel very festive though despite the lack of decorations – it's our christmas tradition to put up the tree and decorate the house on the day after the schools break up. I'm even seeing things in my coffee – kind of looks like a snowman or an angel or have I already succumbed to christmas madness?!
What's your run up to christmas been like so far, calm or crazed?
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Good morning Julie!
That’s definitely a snowman floating not in the air but in your coffee!
Well our Christmas preps were put on hold this weekend due to the sick car but thanks to some parts (don’t ask me what) and a lovely AA man it’s now going again. So it’s now all systems go!! I’d like it all finished this week so that next week we can relax and enjoy the run-up to Christmas doing Christmassy things!
Have a lovely week either knitting or shopping or both!!
Vivienne x
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so far its been fairly calm, but that’s because i have not started getting presents yet!! In a day or so i expect the panic will set in!!!!
xxx
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Hi Julie,
Believe it or not this is the first in a long, long time that I feel reasonably calm and organised.
Decorations went up yesterday which was a lovely day with my little 3 year old helping me (I rearranged some of the baubles after bed time!), cards are all written out and posted and most of the gifts have been hidden away from little fingers and eyes. I’m still convinced there will be my usual mad panic on Christmas Eve but that’s miles away -right?
But watever happens it will be magical. With the warmest of winter wonderland wishes to you and your lovely family. Have a magical Christmas.
Lots of Love,
Bernice x
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I was wondering how you’d made the snowman in your coffee! Must be holiday magic. And I did all my shopping online, as I’m much happier warm and cosy indoors with my knitting too!
K x
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Thanks to the awful weather and knowing that I had to cope with Mother-in-law’s cataract op, I’ve done most of my preparations via the internet and well in advance (must be something wrong here)!
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That is a magic holiday coffee for sure. Online won for me this year – I am fed up with rude people whenever I venture out. So the shopping is mostly done, but the cards haven’t happened and I’d say its 50/50 on the decorating.
I feel quite calm, though that may all change on Wednesday when the boys finish…
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I’m just bumbling along as usual. I don’t like the tree up too early, the excitement wears off if you see it for weeks and weeks.
Not even written a card yet, but everything will get done in its own time, it always does!! I think your frothy snowman looks as if he’s executing a spin on ice skates to me. Dawn
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You found a Christmas Angel! All will be well and calm for sure during the festive season.
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I’m having a fairly calm time today considering I’ve yet to finish the packing for our christmas with rellies in Oz! Cards done & posted, last of the presents delivered – no idea how santa will find us down under but something will show up i’m sue – he’s good like that you know. Last of the carol concerts tonight, will be glad not to hear little donkey on the recorder for a while. beautifully sunny here in Jersey CI today!
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That’s definitely a snowman… a Christmas miracle!!!
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That is definitely a snowman Julie – did you do that yourself or was it just a coincidence? Its been fairly calm so far, but my other half has no idea what he wants for Christmas so I can feel the stress mounting as I wrack my brains!! Hope you have a fabulous Christmas with the family and that its a peaceful and joyous time for you all, Rosy xx
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Maybe your coffee is forecasting the snow due in a few days?! It’s fairly calm here after deciding to get everything done this weekend. I was a bit pooped on Sunday evening though. Internet shopped most things this year as couldn’t face waddling like a penguin round the Trafford Centre. Fingers crossed the purchases now arrive before the baby does! (It’s the thought that counts – right??!!!). The main things left to do are the knitted presents which have been promised but I keep getting distracted by the lure of knitting an infinity scarf…. Naughty selfish mummy! :0) X
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Hi,I’ve been knitting some of your little knitted teddies 🙂 What better to teach my [23 year old] son to knit? 🙂 I’ve blogged it today if you fancy popping over to check them out 🙂
A x
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Hi Julie,
These last days before Christmas have been wonderful. Each day is filled with lots of knitting and quiet walks on our mountain.
Merry Christmas to you and your lovely family.
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It’s been crazy here… as I’m a primary school teacher it’s also been very glittery! Love your snowman 🙂
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Snowman was the first thing I saw! All is quiet here — at least for the moment. I have cut back on projects this year though, so that makes a difference.
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I see a little rabbit! So much for my festive spirit!
I am so busy helping out at the school of my children that there is no holiday to be seen in our house. But I also have the plan to start decorating this coming weekend.
Enjoy the peace and quiet!
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Glad to hear that Amy’s play went well. Ahh, even the coffee is festive. I thought I would be super organised this year as I stopped working earlier in the year, but not so.
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I see either a snowman or a bunny…
Christmas hasn’t really started for me yet. Had a big exam this morning that I was studying for for the past 2 months (passed it – so excited I’m telling everyone) so the house is decorated and some gifts are ordered but not much else. I don’t feel festive but I think that will come on board soon.
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Hello,
This year I decided to put the Christmas tree up, in the last week of November. Somehow, I feel amazingly better, the house feels more Christmassy, it’s lovely seeing the lights twinkling in the evening.
So I think I’ll definitely do the same again next year too.
Your coffee swirl looks like a snowman to me,
anyway, wanted to wish you a very happy Christmas and a happy New Year too.
take care
sandra
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I find myself on the bunny team – that’s what i thought I saw first. But on second look, a real look, I saw a snowman. How funny, and how happy! It’s been a strange run-up this year. A little crippled by the traveling we did in November. Really, by all the changes this year – good ones, almost all. But a shake-up nonetheless.
I’m, therefore, a little behind in my thinking. A little as if I’d had one of those dreams about Something Big happening, and you hadn’t learned the lines, or done the shopping or the packing and now it’s too late. Except that it isn’t too late. I expect that comes of mailing things at the very last moment. Or suddenly realizing that it’s almost too late.
I’m not usually like this. Part of it is making presents. The years I suddenly decided to make quilts for each child felt like this – so many hours holding still, trying to work something through from idea to reality in a short period of time. But I don’t feel at all bothered by the work – just a little astonished to look up and see how late it’s gotten.
Maybe tomorrow, when I get Gin’s last box off and start dusting the living room and really putting the house to rights. Maybe I’ll stop feeling so fragmented. Usually I have everything wrapped by now. Ah well. I’ll play Christmas music as I do it. How did I ever bake the eighty thousand dozen everythings I used to do every year?
Still, there is a great peace on me. The Christmas lights are just lovely, and the tree graceful and simply studded with memories and really beautiful little hand made things. The greenery is up. It’s abundance I seem to be dog-paddling through. So many people to love. And Christ was born – he really was, in spite of knowing what he was going to have to do. Because he loves us. And that’s always a surprise for me. So it’s been a bit of an eye-blinking time, but lovely all the same.
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The idea of a snow bunny is very appealing – but I saw a snowman. All is calm here on the southern front – but that’s only because we shrank Christmas a few years ago – before that it was insane!
Merry Christmas to you and yours Julie.
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Being Jewish helps keep one out of the fray, but I do hate the crowds and try to finish my shopping by late November, even when Hanukkah falls late in December.
I’m a big fan of calm holidays! And I’m sure that goes double for Toby!
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i cant believe its soooo close already , last saturday we found ourselves outside Toys R U s waiting for the doors to open . Gabes first nativity is tomorrow and I;m just keeping everything crossed that he is going to be well enough to go ..
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“Calmly knitting” are not two words that go together for me these days. Frantically knitting, hysterically knitting, knitting to the death, and the like describe my current pre-Christmas knitting experience. Next year I fully intend to join you in the calmly knitting phase — just as soon as I get done with this year’s Christmas knitting!
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If you look at your cup the right way, it kind of looks like a bunny! (Round nose on the left, round bottom on the right, leg on the bottom, ear on the top – it’s a profile). 🙂
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Oh, haha, looks like I’m not the only one to see that…
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