Mum's Advent Calendar 25

Happy Christmas!

Spot the last Christmas tree? Spot the star?

There's a story here, I think, just right for today.

Happy Christmas!

xx

Mum's Advent Calendar 9, Days Left 16

The list - had to have it or I wouldn't have got anything done yesterday.

1. Finish last shepherd for the crochet Nativity set.

Sorry he's a bit blurred - must have been the sherry.

2. Polish the brass on the front door.

3. Finish the poinsettia row on the Christmas blanket.

4. Bake bread.

5. Make selection boxes bags - nearly finished

6. Finish putting up the decorations - nearly finished

7. Take a picture to put on this post.

8. Go and buy some more sherry! - hic!

I also washed the kitchen floor, took cats a walk, delivered neighbour's Christmas cards and walked to the supermarket.

There's healthy living for you! It also helps you sleep at night.

xx

Sunday - today will be my day of rest.

Number 11

This will be the last India cot blanket for a while as I've run out of squares. It's a motley selection of colours but I've managed to make quite a large blanket with these left overs.

I've succumbed and ordered some wool for a Christmas Ripple Blanket. (Call it a Christmas present to me.) I've a few ideas buzzing in my head and just guessed the number of balls of yarn I would need. Red, white and green will be the colours for this blanket which certainly won't be finished by Christmas. I still have one shepherd to complete for my crochet Nativity and I'm plodding along with my Summer blanket squares, adding more colours to the original 17. I'll just keep the squares coming until I've finished the wool.

Swimming tomorrow as part of my fitness regime! I wonder how many lengths I'll be able to do! It's been a long time since I've been to the swimming baths.

xx

More Bling

I looked through the broken bling to find some 'gold' for Gaspar 2.

He has a golden crown and gold around his cloak.

I think he still needs a little bit more bling to bring him up to king standard.

He wanted to join his friends - looks like the journey has begun.

Soon be Christmas!

Royal visit in July

One Nativity figure made each month and this month it's the turn of Balthazar. Balthazar in the song 'We Three Kings' carried myrrh. My Balthazar carries an awful lot of myrrh in a very ornate package.

It started out as an earring. Teddy is modeling this beautifully for me.

As I couldn't get the beads off easily I just bent it around and around until I could easily attach it to my figure. His beard is rather full aswell as it was crocheted in very curly wurly wool 

He joins the other King, Melchior. Gaspar took off on his travels with the Bloggy Blanket Chain so I'll have to do a Gaspar 2 one month.

Please click on the Nativity label to see more figures and to find a link to the pattern for this set.

Just made it!

And only just. Crochet last night and this morning. Meet Joseph.

He joins Mary and Jesus in my monthly Nativity make. Click on the label Nativity to see more.

Sh!!!! He's sleeping - don't wake him up.

He made it a little early this year.

Killing three birds with one stone

Oh my, new wool! This is for my Summer granny blanket for a double bed, based on Lucy at Attic 24's Summer Garden granny square and her Granny Stripe colours with the inspiration for the design from According to Matt's blanket here. Nothing original here on this one!

While using the wool I just had to do a few more Granny roses ...

... and another King for my Christmas Nativity. (See the Nativity label posts.)

The puss cats weren't helping but still had to be in on the act.

I'll call him Gaspar, I think. He seems to be lifting one side of his mouth up, doesn't he. I can do that.

Welcome

A new baby - a little bit early I know. Unfortunately Baby Jesus was missing his mum so ...

... instead of one figure I crocheted two this month.

Now he's happy!

Welcome also to Amanda, thank you for following. Enjoy your visits and join in the fun if you wish!

Edit - Talking about crochet, Fostermummy needs more squares for our Bloggy Blanket if you have time. See the Bloggy Blanket page for details.

Welcome to Mum's Spring Fair

 (This fair is taking place most of the day and some of our stalls may not be all up and running until nearer the end of the evening. If they do not have their Spring Fair post, please be patient and call back later.)


The sun is a-shining to welcome the day,
Heigh ho, come to the fair,
The folk are all singing so merry and gay,
Heigh ho, come to the fair.


All the stalls on the green are as fine as can be,
With trinkets and tokens so pretty to see,
So it's come, then, maidens and men
To the fair in the pride of the morning.
So deck yourselves out in your finest array,
With a heigh ho, come to the fair.


Why not visit our stalls. I'm just going to give them my contributions. First of all on the Homemade stall I'm going to put my little angel - this month's Nativity character.

Homemade 

Fancy some knitted garments?


Visit Cathy at Still Waters. Oh Cathy, you've been so busy creating beautiful clothes and scarves - so many to choose from.


For contributions to sewing and food visit Debbie. This is one very talented lady.


On to the Home Baking stall now. I can't leave my cake here as part of it was consumed as soon as it came out of the oven. (That's my excuse, anyway!)

Home Baking

(Dreamer from Dreaming of a Simple Life)
Oh my, you'll never want to leave this stall!


including the Decorate a Fairy Cake table
(Shara from Mama's Mission)
I can tell you that all these fairy cakes are winners with their Spring colours. You will be spoilt for choice. What a team.


I'll leave this bunch of daffs on the Plant stall.

I'm not very good with plants in pots. I don't think anyone will virtually buy these!

DH does better with orchids.

I'll leave a few sticks of rhubarb, too, as it's growing pretty well at the moment.

Plants

 (Anne from Azza's Blather)
(Sorry this stall is closed. Thank you to the stall holder. Hope to see you soon.)


Now for the Bric a Brac. I've got far too much of this. Time to off-load so someone else can virtually enjoy. Jill might fancy this lady. She's been hanging around for some time. She holds the jewelry that I don't wear. Perhaps I'll donate that too! Jill  from Land of the Big Sky could put the lady on top of her barn in the middle of nowhere.

I don't know whether she's standing on the world or just hanging about the Universe.

I think her wheel or cog is broken. She's got a bit of an evil eye, too.

Bric a Brac

(Sorry this stall is closed. Thank you to the stall holder. Hope to see you soon.)

I think I'd better stop at this next stall for a manicure. Gardening isn't too kind on the hands. I daren't show you a picture of my nails!

Manicure/Nail

(Willow92 from Willows World)
You will be spoilt for choice here - I'd opt for a different style and colour on each nail and then you can admire the 'handiwork'! Oh for a full set of decent nails.

Now what's this stall? It's a mystery to me.

Mystery

(I hope you are there Green Flag from Green is the New Black v2)
Here's a new idea for a stall next time. Lovely creativity.

Ah - let's stop a while at the sewing stall. A friend off-loaded 2, yes 2 sewing machines, that she'd inherited, on to me after my machine died. I really ought to start this quilting lark. There aren't enough hours in the day, are there? So many things to learn, so many things to do.

Sewing

(Sarah from The Little Family of Three)
She's been so busy sewing for this stall. I'm sure you will find something here that will take your fancy, I did.


Games


I thought we could have a 'Name the Teddy'  but he's a little too big to post to the winner and DD would not be very pleased if he suddenly disappeared.

Let's just play this one.

Hook a Duck

What about a raffle? Whoops, no, we'd probably need a gaming licence.

Tell you what - Pick a Number, any number between 1 and 100.

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70
71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90
  91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100

Were you lucky?

Phew, I'm worn out now. Sit down awhile with me and be entertained.

This place looks nice and warm. Hang on it's moving. Whoa there!

Entertainment

Pony Rides

Dartford Warbler at Where Beechmast Falls

Now try this entertainment from Diane.
Fantastic - I particularly liked the man who was hypnotising himself with his balls until he reached a fever-pitch of excitement!

Hey, who's that? It's someone who has come a long way to be here. Hi Sft, on your travels again? Hi, neice of SFT. Good to see you. I bet you enjoy visiting your aunt.

Come on, I'm parched. Let's go to the tea room for a cuppa with

Liz at Shortbread and Ginger, (You'll stay here a long time with your cuppa, I'm sure, admiring all the china and tea-cup displays. Don't forget to help with the washing up after!)

while we watch the

Hat Parade

I thought I'd pick some flowers to decorate my hat but it seemed such a shame to pick them so I didn't.

(Jane and Chris from the Maple Syrup Mob)
Smile please - this one is going to be a winner.

Anyone else care to don a hat and meet us all in the comments section so we can view some more? Plenty of virtual easter eggs to go round in this parade.


Closing Ceremony

Ladies and Gentlemen, I hope you have enjoyed your time at the Fair. May I thank all who contributed to and set up stalls. Much time and effort has been put into this fair and we've all had a terrific time browsing, eating, drinking and being entertained. Three cheers for Spring (Autumn) and Bloggy friends around the globe.
Hip, hip ...
Hip, hip ...
Hip, hip ...

Hooray!!!!!!

Number Two or is it Three?

Number 2 figure in my 'crochet one Nativity figure a month challenge' is a shepherd. (He looks a bit ill - I'm running out of pink for heads and hands.) His lamb this time was a little too large for him to hold so I could call it a third figure maybe.

Puss took a shining to him.

Lamb for tea?

Nope - not that tasty!