Christmas Decoration

During our walkabout around the city malls with my son Jonathan, we took several number of the Christmas decoration pictures. We enjoyed the scenes and for a moment thought that we were really in fairyland. Well this is the holiday season and we might as well go out there and enjoy the atmosphere before the holidays are over and life falls back to a bored monotonous routine.

      

An added Elf on the Wreath Gives a Magical Feel

      

This Wreath looks Simple and Traditional

      

      

      

Japanese Christmas Charity Bazaar

Today I am going to write about my Christmas activities. I love the month of December and the magic it brings. These few weeks have been busy with the sales and Christmas shopping. There are a lot of bargains in the malls and everyone is spoilt for choice. I attended a few of the Christmas bazaars organized by all the different associations. There were many stalls selling all sorts of things. I especially liked the Japanese association charity bazaar, they sell nice beautiful patchwork items and they were all reasonably priced.

There was a Japanese Kimono fitting where you can dress up in a kimono and had your picture taken. I had mine taken just to see how it feels like to be all dressed up in a kimono. It was real tight at the waist but then I enjoyed the fuss the Japanese ladies rendered. They were so friendly and soft spoken.

Wonderfully Made Draw String Bag Which I love!

Patch work Items I Bought at the Japanese Christmas Charity Bazaar Recently

Myself in a Beautiful Peachy Coloured Kimono!

Christmas Cookies

Christmas Cookies

The first time I tried to bake some cookies was when I was 12 years old. I remember baking cookies with only basic ingredients like flour, egg and butter. That was why Scottish Shortbread has been always on the list and also Shrewsbury biscuits. We make do with what we could find in the kitchen and the cookies baked very well. When Christmas day came, we then invited some of our friends to the house and we would serve them the cookies we baked. Recently I bake some of my favourite cookies and it still tastes as sumptuous as ever... Yummy… Hmm…

Baking Spritz Cookie with the Presser

Some Coloured Sugars and Hundreds and Thousanth to Decorate with

How it looks like Eventually!

 Delicious Baked Spritz Cookies

Russian Tea Cookies Made into Star Shape

Christmas Memorabilia

Christmas memorabilia, there are many new ornaments on the market today but the few that have a great impact on me were these three little things. These have been in the family for so long that Christmas would not be the same without these on the tree.  The  gnome were made in Japan. I still like the silver bell and you can see that it has withstood the test of time all three ornaments, the one in the market today is fragile and their workmanship is not lasting.  

Treasured Ornament, Gnome

Made in Japan



The Silver Bell that is still my Favourite till Today