Merry Christmas to All!

 

С Рождеством Христовым!

    Happy Christmas!     

to all my friends bloggers, 

who visited my blog this year, read and commented 

on my posts (despite my some mistakes in English),  

who advised me on my comments, 

you are my friends from many countries:  

Finland, Poland, Germany,  

Bulgaria, USA, Canada, Spain,  

Greece, UK, Australia,

Malaysia and  Japan.

 
I wish you a happy Holy day, health and peaceful New Year!

Satu, my friend blogger from Finland gave me "The Beautiful Blog" Award, I appreciate this award, Satu!

 

Now I have to write answers about me:

1. I love nature  
2. I dream about big comfortable summer house.
3. I like  flowers, thujas, pond, water lilies
4. As my hobby in winter I love to embroider 
5. Prefer to travel in Fall, when gardening works are over

I would like to gave this  "The Beautiful Blog" Award to bloggers:

1.Prairie Rose's Garden

2.Notes from the Milky Way

3.Graphicality-UK

4.La Vie en Rose
5. Gardening With Grace

Congratulation! 

Coasting Down the Hill

Frosty is the morning;
But the sun is bright,
Flooding all the landscape
With its golden light.

 



Hark the sounds of laughter
And the voices shrill!
See the happy children
Coasting down the hill.

 


Eyes with pleasure beaming,
Cheeks with health aglow;
Bless the merry children,
Trudging through the snow!

 


Now I hear them shouting,
"Ready! Clear the track!"
Down the slope they're rushing,
Now they're trotting back.

 




Full of fun and frolic,
thus they come and go.
Coasting down the hillside,
Trudging through the snow.

Scent of Christmas

    I was offered by Satu, my neighbor from Helsinki to tell what Christmas means to me. What the scent of Christmas is for me. I respond to this challenge, thank you, Satu!.

    The calm forest, frozen trunks, light colors in depth, all of these are scent of coming Christmas and New Year.

Feelings of Christmas are different in childhood and in adulthood.

As a child, we are waiting for gifts from Santa and as the adults we are happy our gifts to bring joy to loved ones.

  

    Now the four questions are:

1. What is my favorite flower at Christmas?

Poinsettia (Christ Star) is sold before the holiday. I've read the story of this flower and now I usually buy Poinsettia with bright red or pink top leaves to decorate my home.

2. What preparation for the holiday, do I never miss?

Of course, buying gifts, I always try to please the close people. The Christmas Tree. It is nice to decorate it, especially to get the old Christmas decorations left over from many years. By the new tradition I put the Advent candles on my window sill. 

3. What the scent of Christmas is for me?

It associates with traditional Christmas food, champagne and red wine.

As usual the mix salad ‘Olivier ‘(meat, potatoes, vegetables and mayonnaise), hot turkey or baked fish, sometimes caviar and cake or pudding there is on the holiday table.

In the morning people go on the frosty air, many fireworks, lots of laughter and joy.

4. Which song does make my Christmas?

Some years ago I saw the movie ‘Love Actually’, I really liked it. I love the song ‘All I want for Christmas is you’ that the girl Joanna (Olivia Olson) sang at the school on holiday.

 I now challenge to share what Christmas makes for the blogger:

1.         Rosemary 'Tales from my garden'

2.         Ash 'Houris in the Garden'

3.         Giga 'My piece of nature and adventure'

4.         Betty 'Gum leaves'

5.         Lucia 'Glass, eye and heart'

6.         Jason 'Garden in a city'

Tell me, please:

what is your favorite Christmas flower,

which preparation for Christmas you never miss

what is the scent of Christmas and

which song makes your Christmas!

Christmas Card

    

    Christmas is coming and I decided to make a Christmas card. Here is the card I made. How have I made this? It's very simple.

I had a thick, white paper and I cut the piece for future card.

Then I took a napkin and separated the top layer with a pattern, 2 remaining layers I did not need. I chose a part of the picture that I wanted for a Christmas card and cut it off (it was a picture with bells and cones)

I put a layer of packaging film on the white paper piece and  I put the selected pattern on top.

Then the important moment came. It was necessary to carefully iron the picture to film and paper with a hot iron.

 When a pattern tightly connected with the paper, I took scissors and cut unwanted edges off card size. I folded in half my handmade card. 

           I used the other pictures from my napkin and made three Christmas cards.