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Time Christmas and a birthday Special Christmas Swap

missing nine days to Christmas.

We talked, we waited we've got you ...

And like every year, we are not ready!

Personally, I pretty much still to do: gifts to buy, cards to send, decorations to be completed, in short: all the corollary!

But in the end, that day comes and goes, we're ready or not, and will stay there alone, and especially the way we have all this fervor ...

So I'm going to enjoy every single moment of these preparations, and forget the stress and hurry.

mind if something will be done until the last or do not do it for nothing :-)

Even in Victorian house There is great excitement: Mrs. R. is trotting across the easement because everything is perfect on Christmas Day. We have to change the curtains, silver polish, dust the light fixtures, contact suppliers, and of course place the decorations and think about gifts! She likes to take care of this personally, because basically it was a little 'girl and enjoys a great deal to prepare the tree and place for the last star on top ...

Let's peek at what point are the preparations?

As you know, this family has two children, Edward and Sophie. The boy is four years old this year and will receive the most coveted gift: the rocking horse ...

But under the tree also includes a nice teddy bear that just from those years became the inseparable companion of games for all children and will remain so to this day.

Its popularity is tied to a moving passage in which a hunter refuses to shoot a bear cub tied to a tree, awaiting his fate. The hunter feels it would be really vile, unfair and cruel to kill the defenseless puppy.

E 'November 15, 1902 and the hunter named Theodore Roosevelt, Teddy said ...

It 's the 26th President of the United States.

The news spreads from one newspaper to another, and the bear, dubbed Teddy, became the model for a new, soft toy ...

You know, Christmas is also the time when brush traditions: what better time to read, in light of the fireplace, a classic like "A Christmas Carol " Charles Dickens?

This book is a first edition of 1843, and if I did not know that it is impossible, I would say that this is just the volume that the author gave to his publishers and friends ...

how it got in this room, we do not know.

(editor's note: the volume is made by me, with little material found on the net, but unfortunately, for the moment, not I found the full text, so I had to settle the original cover, dedication manuscript of Dickens, the first page and some pictorial ... Who had news of a photocopy of the first edition text, or at least a little later, I would make a great gift).

The book is illustrated with beautiful watercolor boards and also served as the subject of the picture.

balls for the tree are Gypsy Boudoir shop

In the coming days, we will discover how our Victorian family prepares to celebrate Christmas and still breathe a little air of the past, know of candle wax, pine living, fireplace smoke ...


Meanwhile, here's the good wishes of friends, that will brighten my day and my fake fir:
here are those of Irene ...

... here and those Janny

:-) Thanks to both

Today for me, dear friends, is a very special day: two years ago my daughter was born, and it seems only yesterday ...
This is the welcome I had prepared for her (I finished stitching the hospital and my husband rushed home to attack him at the door!) And I can assure you that every point is a thought, a question, a fear, a joy, all that a future mother feels in her heart.
I dedicate this post to all mothers: that among the thousands of things to do, they always find the time to be happy with their children :-)
a warm embrace