
My twelve days of Christmas
Before Christmas 2021 is a distant memory I decided to do a round up of my highlights and tips for bringing joy into the world - a post advent calendar, if you like, since moments of high anticipation and glad tidings need not be confined to the festive season. On the 1st day: Mariachi comes to townStarting with a bit of mariachi fun I had with some pumpkins left over from Halloween. See what I did there? In case anyone wants to recreate similar (and why wouldn't you?!) I used some South American terracotta wind chimes that had become tangled beyond repair as sombreros for the mini gourds. On the 2nd day: Feeling gingerHaving been admonished as a teenager by my mother, for incinerating my first attempt at a Christmas…