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Trimming the tree. Its a beauty this year. Most years we make a trip to a patch of bush near a pine plantation and cut down a runaway weed. They are actually a bit of a problem in the bush in these parts, so we're doing a good thing... it feels just a little bit norty too, which makes it all the more fun ;) Most of our decorations are handmade. I'm hoping that we can have a couple of handmade ornaments survive from each year and remember the time we made them in years to come...
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Of course you have to scoff a box of choccies while decorating...
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The owlets usually decorate wrapping paper each year. Repurposed art. If we don't get around to that, we wrap with fabric instead.
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We've been making some gifts too, little bags filled with lavender collected on our morning walks...
I must say the weeks have flown by. The family are flying in over the next couple of days for a holiday in my neighbourhood, a chance to meet tiny owlet and the first christmas we've spent together in a while. Its pretty spesh.
Activity Advent Catchup
Day 11 :: go garage sailing
Day 12 :: hunt for a Christmas tree
Day 13 :: decorate the tree
Day 14 :: all go for a walk at lunchtime
Day 15 :: fancy dress dinner
Day 16 :: Huz reads a christmas story
Day 17 :: make wrapping paper
Day 18 :: dance party in the lounge room
Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWe also have a family tradition of wildcrafting a self sown pine near a plantation. We managed to fit 4 of them in the kombi this year, so we harvested for the extended family homes too :)
Enjoy advent xx
The heat up here killed our spruce so we went "weeding" except we underestimated what the heat would do to a cut tree so we've actually gone out "weeding" again and brought home a second one which we'll trim today - the children thought it was kind of weird until I suggested that not many people are as lucky as us to get to trim TWO trees in one season!
ReplyDeleteSimply wonderful, our children decorated our freshly cut tree farm, she's a beauty. Love Posie
ReplyDeletewe havent done any 'weeding' down here yet, but it was always a tradition of mine growing up, one which I think is awesome enough to keep, we will get back into it next year, fake one's just dont cut it! (no pun intended)
ReplyDeleteSounds like it will be a lovely Christmas for you all x. I do love this time of the year - but I'm use to it being much warmer!!
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