It’s difficult, in a world of overwhelm and too much stuff, to make meaningful gifts. And I’m not the type who likes to make promises through gifts, like a voucher for something that may or may not happen in the distant future. Therefore I insist, that everybody gets a little something, and that it’s nicely wrapped.
I love to buy some petitesses, small things that won’t cost a fortune but tell of warmth and well wishing, at the local Christmas Market in 70500 Bousseraucourt, for those around here, it’s tomorrow, I hope to see you there!
I love to wrap the presents myself, with bits and bobs of faded things from the garden and strings of antique lace. I put Torelli’s trumpet concerto on the player and pour myself a glass of champagne for the purpose, and indulge in that serene moment of nostalgic oldfashionedness.
*This is Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar! Advent calendars are a big tradition where I come from: every day until Christmas Day you prepare a small gift for a loved one, fourandtwenty little surprises. Advent calendars come in beautifully old fashioned prints on cardboard, extra glitter and glory, and each day there’s a little perforated window waiting for you be opened. Others are more elaborate, pretty baskets filled with twenty four numbered parcels, red velvet ribbons and sprigs of fir. The one I’m making for you this season is a different one altogether, it comes in digital form. Unless specially marked, all content is hand-stitched by myself, lovingly compiled and written for your amusement.
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