Anna Faversham's Blog - Posts Tagged "advent"
A living Advent Calendar
A living advent calendar for you to create and bring fun and joy into your neighbourhood.
It’s a Swedish idea and catching on in the UK and US too, I hope. It’s great for lifting morale in these dark days and weird times.
The idea is to create window displays which can gradually be illuminated as the days go by, or perhaps on each Advent Sunday or whatever suits your creation.
I’m going to start tonight (1st December) by lighting one candle, tomorrow it will be two. By then I will have located my Christmas decorations and dragged them out and will attempt to create something worth putting on show. I’ve got quite a few windows to fill up.
Here in the UK, during lockdowns of one sort or another, we are encouraged to have some outside daily exercise so it's a way to spread some Christmas joy. It’s a safe way for families to walk around in the evenings enjoying the scenes that others are creating throughout Advent – something to look forward to as each dark night the windows get brighter.
Do share here any ideas to improve on this as I can see it needs developing and let us know how you are getting on.
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Sage Saying: If you can give only one gift, make it the gift of good examples.
Jolly Joke: Why do birds fly south for the winter? Because it’s too far to walk.
Handy Hint: Before lighting candles, place them in the freezer for a few hours. They should then burn more evenly and for longer. And remember to snuff them out; blowing them out sometimes means the wax gets blown over your precious furniture.
(Am I supposed to put a health and safety notice in here?!!)
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And the news you’ve all been waiting for? Have I started my next book? Hmm... truly it is any minute now. I've been working on the plot and I have an opening line ready to type. Now what was it...?
It’s a Swedish idea and catching on in the UK and US too, I hope. It’s great for lifting morale in these dark days and weird times.
The idea is to create window displays which can gradually be illuminated as the days go by, or perhaps on each Advent Sunday or whatever suits your creation.
I’m going to start tonight (1st December) by lighting one candle, tomorrow it will be two. By then I will have located my Christmas decorations and dragged them out and will attempt to create something worth putting on show. I’ve got quite a few windows to fill up.
Here in the UK, during lockdowns of one sort or another, we are encouraged to have some outside daily exercise so it's a way to spread some Christmas joy. It’s a safe way for families to walk around in the evenings enjoying the scenes that others are creating throughout Advent – something to look forward to as each dark night the windows get brighter.
Do share here any ideas to improve on this as I can see it needs developing and let us know how you are getting on.
* * *
Sage Saying: If you can give only one gift, make it the gift of good examples.
Jolly Joke: Why do birds fly south for the winter? Because it’s too far to walk.
Handy Hint: Before lighting candles, place them in the freezer for a few hours. They should then burn more evenly and for longer. And remember to snuff them out; blowing them out sometimes means the wax gets blown over your precious furniture.
(Am I supposed to put a health and safety notice in here?!!)
* * *
And the news you’ve all been waiting for? Have I started my next book? Hmm... truly it is any minute now. I've been working on the plot and I have an opening line ready to type. Now what was it...?
