Happy Christmas......Christmas at the North Pole

Thank you for your friendship, inspiration and sheer fun in blogland during the last year. I wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Our card this year has been designed by our youngest Granddaughter....thank you all for a lovely year.

It seems to be that a family tradition has been established so Granny creates a Christmas 'make' for the youngest ones.
This year it's all about Father Christmas delivering presents to the children at the North Pole.

CHRISTMAS AT THE NORTH POLE

It is a well known fact that Father Christmas lives at the North Pole

and spends the year planning presents for all the children throughout the world.

What is not quite so well known is that it takes a whole day to deliver them –

so if he was delayed.....

the Eskimo children might not get theirs until Boxing Day!! DISASTER!!

To make sure that this does not happen, he delivers theirs first.

And because we all know that the North Pole is all snow – with no trees -

as a special treat just for the Eskimo children, he brings them trees as well.

So the girls were supplied with a couple of igloos - paper mache over plastic pots - pizza base polystyrene base and mountains a quantity of cotton wool and of course a mini Santa and baby polar bear and trees.

Thank you for looking
Robin

It Is A Well Known Fact.......

...that I am easily distracted....this afternoon I could be doing the ironing, but writing a blog is more fun!
I should be engaging in secretive conversations about Christmas presents, but wandered off up the garden...although I have made a start....

On Saturday a friend and I headed for a delightful day at the Kensington Dolls House Fair - can you believe it was the 50th!! So many amazing artisans, and with wonderful artists from Europe and further afield exhibiting as well.
Of course I purchased small glassware treats from Phil Grenyer (forgot to take a picture) but one of the biggest treats for me was seeing old friend Sarah Heaseman's stand - exhibiting outside Cornwall for the first time.  Her evocative Cornish seaside and countryside cottages and accessories are exquisite and realistic and I hope very much that we shall see her in London again.  Sarah doesn't have a website but pics. of her work are on the KDF website.

It has been a very rainy and chilly week, but finally I had to make a trip to the top of the garden and the compost bin - and what lovely distractions on the way!
Glorious luminous yellow Winter Flowering Jasmine is scrambling up the shaky suppost while the fabulous pink Viburnum reaches for the sky and scents the path - and really can you beat the dear little violas in an old terracotta pot?

Two or three years ago I started what has obviously now become a tradition to create a mini 'Christmas make project' for my youngest granddaughters - so that is my most immediate distraction.  I've decided on igloos at the N. Pole....and that's as far as I've got.  I'll let you know!

Thank you for looking
Robin