Les Poissonchats

Nostalgia

/nɒˈstaldʒ(i)ə/

A wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition. 

Do you remember the scent of burnt cinnamon and apple caramel? Woodsmoke and the cold metallic smell of an icy winter’s night. The texture of the air when you enter the candlelit parlour. Walking on crumpled rustling gift wrapping paper. The sound of the bell announcing Christmas. Are you in? 

Nostalgia, this is this year’s theme of Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar. Over the next four and twenty days I will take you on a nostalgic sentimental Christmas journey, and I hope you will thoroughly enjoy it!

Images shot by the fabulous Becky Hadeed.

This is Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar! Advent calendars are a huge tradition where I come from: you make little gifts for your loved ones every day until Christmas Day, fourandtwenty little surprises. The advent calendars come in beautifully old fashioned prints on cardboard, with extra glitter, and each day there’s a paper door waiting for you to pry open. Others are more elaborate, pretty baskets filled with twenty four numbered parcels, decorated with red velvet ribbons. The one I’m making for you this season is altogether a different one, it is digital glimpses into the real doors, the Castle doors, to be precise. Unless specially marked, all content is hand-stitched by myself, lovingly compiled and written to your amusement.