Christmas Eve.

[curiouswombat]

Ah, home from church, D-d read well and was happy to be doing the Isaiah reading as it had not been a cause for dissension amongst any of the heretical sects she has spent the last term studying!!

Now the cake is decorated - for those of you who have seen our various Christmas cakes over the years



Very much a joint effort - both in design and execution - she made the stocking, I did the holly wreath.



The house is filled with the scent of frankincense and myrrh candles and orange and cinamon ones too, as well as the smell of spices from the red cabbage which is already slowly cooking.

The tiny turkey is in a bowl of spiced brine in the fridge, and there is bacon wrapped around sausages all ready to cook.

D-d is looking out her Christmas stocking, and I only have S2C's presents to wrap - which I will do in a minute as he is at work until 6a.m.

There are a few other Christmas pics here too



The tree - before there were many presents under it!

This is what you see as you come in through the front door -



And a close up of the swag so that you can see there are lights in it as well as up the banisters -



And finally a few of my Christmas angels -





I was going to post a Return of The Key story - but this is probably not the most sensible time, and so, although chapter 1 (of 3) is beta'd, chapter 2 written, and chapter 3 almost finished, I'll start after Christmas. It is a pretty angst-free bit of romance.

So - enjoy tomorrow, whether you are celebrating Christ's birth, celebrating Father Christmas, or just happy to have a day off work!

I'm going to finish my glass of port, wrap those last presents, sweep the kitchen floor, and look forward to starting the day tomorrow with coffee and church.

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[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

We are rather proud of the cake! I remember as a child first helping and then taking over the decorating of the cake. In those days we used royal icing, made by hand first, which we usually swirled and peaked into a snow scene and then we had little figures that came out year after year to form a snow scene.

It only occured to me yesterday thad D-d has done the same thing to me over the past three or four years, taken over the cake, although now we use fondant icing so we roll and cut instead.

The angels are from Hospice - they have snowmen and Santas too, but I like the angels!

I know what you mean about putting things away not to be seen again for years - but oh the joy of discovering them eventually!

Have a lovely day!

[gillo]

We had little figures too - and a tiny Christmas tree with a frosting of "snow" on it, every year without fail. I wonder what happened to them.

This year I cheated and just bought some stollen from the German Christmas Market in Birmingham. And I'm too full even for that!

Happy Christmas!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

we usually don't even think of cutting into it until we have family around on Boxing Day. Although we did manage a small amount of Christmas pudding and brandy cream about 8.30pm...

We had one of those trees too - made out of stuff like a tiny green bottle brush.