Advent wreath

In my last blog post I showed some Advent wreaths from previous years, that I had made.

Since it´s such a nice tradition and I also like to craft with my kids, I decided to make one also this year.

The kids had found some horse chestnust and snail shells earlier and I got an idea that we could use them in the wreath. To make them a bit more festive and christmassy, I gave glitter glues to the kids and asked them to decorate the chestnuts with them.

I´m not a big fan of bling bling, but the glitter gave just a bit of the needed touch for the decoration and they did not turn out too kitchy (in my opinion) ;) 

I attached the chestnuts by drilling a hole to them and sticking a toothpick inside. In this way it´s easy to apply to the wreath and you don´t need a glue for this.

a bought set of candles for each advent

The candle holders I had saved from previous years.
I try to reuse things as much as I can or by second hand.
It´s not necessary to always buy everything new! Second hand shops are usually full od christmas decorations before christmas and you can use them also as a material for something else!

NEW START

Ok folks, almost 10 years have past since my last blog post, so maybe it´s time to start again. 

What should I say.. life happened.

There were so many changes in my life after the last post, that I somehow lost myself in between and could´t concentrate on blogging anymore. Although I really loved it.

So I will start by telling what happened in between.

I broke up from a really long relationship. Soon after this happened, suddenly I found the love of my life, the missing part, my soulmate (so cheesy, I know. But - true). But really the one person, that I just knew is the right one for me. And the feeling was mutual.

I became a mother of three kids: twins (a boy and  girl) were born in 2016 we got another girl in 2019.

The life with the kids has been so overwhelming, that I just almost stopped doing all the things I love: sewing and upcycling and blogging. As it often happens (I heard) amongst mothers, they forget themselves while concentrating on their kids and family...and it´s just freaking hard, just to somehow get through the days with small kids! ;)

Now, finally, the kids are getting bigger and I feel that I can start doing these things again.

I need this to keep sane. It brings be so much joy to be able to create things with my own hands.

Since the Christmas time is getting closer, I will post a few photos of Advent wreaths that I have made earlier. I didn´t make these from a scratch, so I had the basis ready, where I just added the decorations.

Hopefully I will manage to make one also this year ;)

I really like this tradition in Austria, it starts the awaiting for Christmas. You light up a new candle every Advent. The first Advent this year is on Sunday 3th of December. From then on, you light another candle each Sunday until the 24th. We didn´t have this habit in Finland, but something similar. When I was a child, we used to have a candle with all the dates of December until the 24th, and we would burn the candle each day a bit. It was a nice way to see, how many days there were left until Christmas.

The Christmas time has become a bit more special for me after having kids. I was always somehow a christmas person, but now it´s more about doing the preparations together. We do handicrafts, decorations, cards, small presents and bake cookies.. The kids are always very excited and it gives me a lot of joy to do this together, pass on traditions and learn new things to them.

Are you a Christmas person and what kind of traditions do you have?

P.S: I noticed recently, that I accidentially deleted some photos of my earlier posts and I´m figuring out the way to get them back. That´s why some of the posts are missing photos.. sorry about that.