Christmas cards making

In the past we have drawn pictures on a sheet of A4 that school send home & the PTFA send it off to Cauliflower cards for printing..this year we have decided to make our own. I bought lots of Christmas tree stickers which children loved...

Christmas Natvity...

In my temporary job practiced singing Nativity songs in our local school to children aged 4 to 7. It is feeling like Christmas now, just a Mary's nativity costume to make...

New Decorations...

Lovely new decorations for the tree, personalised (named) Christmas moneybox hanging tree decoration. One for Amelia & one for Elliot.

Nativity baubles in aid of Cardiff university hospital of wales. A luxury decoration too a sparkly ballerina..

Our First Christmas Cards

My parents have brought up from Wales mine, my husbands and children's Christmas cards from Wales. Its 26th November, they are on the mantlepiece, lovely Macmillan cancer support badges, told you we loved Christmas

Christmas village Pantomine practice

My children are in a local villge pantomine each year, this year it is Dick Whittington, we went to a rehearsal yesterday for the afternoon and are beginning to feel like the festive Christmas season is getting closer. They are on stage for 3 nights ending on 1st December.

School Bazaar

Tombola Stall donations taken to Stockcross Primary school for Christmas Bazaar, festive confectionery was
suggested we donated 2 large cadbury bars of chocolate, the children in return get an non uniform day.


Jingle bells, Jingle bells
Lovely cakey smells
Please put a cake upon this plate,
To celebrate our Christmas Fete!

Our first Christmas fun, to bake a cake for Stockcross School Christmas fete which was on Friday 23rd November
We also filled Jam Jars for the Children's Tombola.

'What I'm planning for Christmas this year...'

We plan to be at home in our local village of Stockcross, for the whole of Christmas, we plan to go to a local village Christmas party and a carol service. We will put up our tree and decorations in the first weekend. This is when our main shopping will start. My parent will be coming up to visit & my husband normally has 2 weeks off work and he loves Christmas too.

What I love about Christmas

Christmas is my favourite holiday of the year, it is typical spent with my parents who visit us from Wales for the
Christmas week. It is not just a religious celebration in our house but giving thanks for a good year and us all being
healthy, happy and together. This is expressed by gifts to each other and by a feast usually lasting the 3 days.
We have the traditions that start with school activities e.g fetes, Christmas card making and Christmas list making.
The children enter a village pantomine and have a school nativity. We celebrate locally visiting friends and the local
church for a carol service. We attend a Christingle service with our children as Christmas approaches.

Shopping would usually start early at John Lewis, M&S or House Of Frazer, Next and Amazon.

What gets me most excited about Christmas is leaving presents out from father christmas and them being delighted somethinghas been delivered that is on their Christmas list. I love seeing my house all decorated and choosing some new additional decorations each year. We have a tradition of going to get the Christmas tree the first weekend of December and
the whole family goes into the field and selects the dress and cuts it down together.