Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year folks!
May the Force Be With You!
I've had a kind of crazy fall semester. I got a new job, 9-5, and I taught a three hour ESL class two nights a week, so I was tired out! But I'm not teaching in the new year, and so I'll have lots more time for cooking dinner and pies and posting on a blog and mail art and dare I say it, going to the gym (!!).
This Christmas was really wonderful and I did a ton of cookie baking, most notably my grandmothers gingerbread recipe. This is maybe 2/5ths of the gingerbread cookies we made... the batch is doubled and so enormous but the cookies go so quickly!!
(The picture looks a little wonky in spots because I used the panorama option!)
The tree we got this year was different than any other I've had. The needles were much longer and softer.
The university library had a big giveaway of dust jackets of childrens books, so I took a bunch and we cut them up to make ornaments and I also used them for my mail art. We also bought a bunch of cheap children's books at the public library's second hand book shop and made ornaments out of them. I particularly love the frog.
I love the ornament idea. Is the frog Mr. Toad? I love getting Emilie mail too!
ReplyDeleteHi Mrs. Duffy,
DeleteI thought it looked like Mr. Toad too! But it was from another children's book. I think one about the Sandman?? It was a really weird book with great illustrations.
And I love getting Mrs. Duffy mail!