Grey skies and candlelights

Yesterday we lit the second candle on our Advent arrangement. Candles give such lovely light when the skies are grey and it's raining. They make even the gloomiest of days seem a bit less so. And though I know this post is at least ten days too late I had to share this image of our quick and easy simple little Advent arrangement with the world. Big Daughter and I collected these little pine cones a few weeks ago, but we planned to make an arrangement with lots of greenery. However on Saturday before the first Sunday of Advent I realized I didn't have any time or greenery to make it. So I asked Big Daughter to help me make it with some hazelnuts and walnuts we had. She was so excited. I gave her a little cake tray, candles and nuts and she arranged them. I just helped a bit (some cones kept falling off the tray). When it was all arranged she said we needed one more thing. She went out of the room and came back with a ribbon from my stash and told me to tie it around the candles. I obeyed. She looked at it and said: Now it's perfect!
We really love our simple candle arrangement because it was so quick and easy to make, it's so simple and I love it because it turned out to be a nice Christmas craft for my Big Daughter and me :)
So, enjoy your grey winter days with the warm glow of candlelights, but do not leave your candles burning if you leave the room!

Bye! Bye!

Long time no see

Time really does fly, doesn’t it? I could swear the Earth is spinning faster every day, well at least in my patch of it. This blog has been really very quiet for some time now, but life has been everything but.

Quite a lot of housework has been done lately of the building/ home improvement kind by my husband (that's why it is taking so much time) in the attic to turn it into new bedrooms for  all of us. Hopefully we will be able to move in upstairs by the time I go back to work next spring :)

The most important (even life changing) thing that hapened was the fact that our Big Daughter celebrated her 7th birthday and started school! Boo hoo, I was sad despite her excitement. Once again, time flies, doesn’t it?

And as for crafting, the following conversation between Big Daughter and me will tell you everything about it:
BD: Mum, you don't have a hobby anymore, do you?
I: Why would you think such a thing?
BD: Well, you don't knit anymore and you've given your jewlery making kit to aunt Ana.

It's all true. And I have to do something about it ASAP! However there was just a smidge of crafty time as well. Well, mostly back in September. Some chunky wool autumn kind of crochet during homework writing supervision time.

And a little bit of patchworky hexagon play.

Right. Now I've got to dash and try to have some housework done (nothing crafty about that, right?) while Baby Sister is asleep.