Welcome to Day 4 of the Christmas Stitching Advent Calendar kindly hosted by Serendipitous Stitching .
I finished another two Shepherd's Bush Christmas stockings this year (one for toddler Tom and one for myself) so now I have a collection. Just one more left to stitch for my husband. I have found the perfect place to hang them this year too in my new home!
I had fun, summery Christmases as a child in Australia. My Grandma was Mrs. Christmas. Along with thousands of Christmas decorations, streamers, lights and mechanical toys decorating her living rooms at her house she adored dressing up. My favourite memory is Grandma dressing up to play Mrs.Claus as a surprise for her grandchildren. She surprised us in a Christmas card dress that she had paintakingly sewn together complete with bright red stockings. We laughed and laughed with her. The best thing about it was she had bought us all an extra present for us.Just when we thought we had opened our last present there was one more.
Another favourite memory is a Christmas decoration (see the above photo) that my DD made when she was 6. She spent hours cutting cardboard, painting and gluing it together at school keeping it a surprise for us until Christmas. It was her own design. It is always pride of place in our house. We love how each reindeer have a unique personality.
Merry Christmas to all!
10 comments:
The stockings look fab Jan - mine is still woefully unfinished...maybe next year?!
Thank you for your stocking picture, now proudly displayed on the Advent Calendar post on my blog.
I love your daughter's art work too, it's great that you get it out each year.
Your stockings are gorgeous!!!!!! What a great display for Christmas~~
Your DD's Santa and reindeer is sooo adorable~~ It's so great to be able to see it every year~
The stockings are lovely and the sleigh and reindeer ornament is just adorable!
hello dear, its me cucki from south africa..i love your post so much..stockings are looking so beautiful..and the ornaments are so cute too..
keep well.love for you from africa xx
What a great set of stockings! Congrats!
The stockings are beautiful but the reindeer are precious and always have different.
Great stockings!! I love love love the reindeer...what a special gift! Definitely made with love. =)
ohhh love those stockings and a fab place to hang them too ... and your daughters Christmas scene is adorable ... I think the biggest reindeer has had to many mince pies ...lol :) love mouse xxxx
Beautiful stockings! I hopped over here from the advent post.
The Santa and sleigh is adorable.
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