Snow Globe within a Snow Globe

This Week
Thought I would share Nathaniel's snow globe project that he made in December at Craft Group.  This project took a few weeks to complete. 

• He made licorice all sorts out of fimo clay and a base which fitted into the larger snow globe lid.  
• Once the all sorts were baked and had cooled down he inserted them into a glass christmas bauble along with white confetti filled it with water and sealed it.
•  The smaller bauble was then glued into the white base.  This was left to dry for 24 hours.  
• The snow globe was filled with water and silver confetti and left to stand.  This allowed the confetti to settle into the water.
• The next day the smaller globe was screwed into the larger globe.

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This weeks Feature

This weeks feature is a St. Patricks Day Wreath tutorial from over at Grandma's Ideas.
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Chareen

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Lighthouse Christmas {Tuesday's Treasures}

One of my favourite things when my children were very little was to collect a new book each Christmas for us to enjoy.  Well the days of little children and new books is quickly fading in our home and a new season is around the corner.  This however has not diminished my love of beautifully illustrated books for Christmas.

Lighthouse Christmas

• Author: Toni Buzzeo
• Format Hardback | 32 pages
• Dimensions 218.44 x 269.24 x 10.16mm | 317.51g
• Publication date 13 Oct 2011
• Publisher Dial Books
• Publication City/Country New York, NY, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations colour illustrations
• Illustrated by: Nancy Carpenter
• ISBN10 0803730535
• ISBN13 9780803730533

Will Santa find them now that they are living in this far away spot just off the coast of Maine?  How will they have Christmas when they still haven't received their groceries?  These are the questions facing Peter and Frances as they face a new future with their Dad in the lighthouse.  As a storm rages they are faced with a choice which ultimately teaches them that the most important part of Christmas is... you'll have to read it to find out.

This book is beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully written.  In the author's note we discovered that this story was inspired by the Flying Santa which has been in operation since 1929. We found out some really interesting things on their site.

Blessings
Chareen

The Man Who Invented Christmas {Tuesday's Treasures}

One of the very first stories I remember from my childhood other than the Nativity is A Christmas Carol. I found this must have book at our local library.  It's one of the most interesting books I have read in a long time.

The Man Who Invented Christmas : How Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits*

• Author: Les Standifordbr 
• Format Paperback | 241 pages
• Dimensions 137.16 x 190.5 x 22.86mm | 317.51g
• Publication date 25 Oct 2011
• Publisher BROADWAY BOOKS
• Publication City/Country New York, NY, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0307405796
• ISBN13 9780307405791

 This is one of those books that you don't forget in a hurry.  It's living history and human interest in one beautiful book. This books was hard to put down.  It's full of wonderful, insightful and well researched information. Having always known Christmas as it is today I was surprised to learn what Christmas was like back in the Victorian era and how much this influenced Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. If you love Christmas and Charles Dickens then this is definitely a must read for you.

In this small but remarkable book, Les Standiford offers readers a gift for all seasons. Carefully researched and written in a stately, lucid prose, this book will be cherished by those who love Dickens, enjoy Christmas, or ponder the endless mysteries of human behavior.- --Roland Merullo, author of American Savior

I hope you will enjoy this treasure as much as I have.
Blessings
Chareen

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Silent Night & Other Christmas Carols

I love this time of the year and I love beautiful books just as much.  That is why I just had to share this beautiful treasure I found at the local library. Silent Night & Other Christmas Carols includes a CD with carols and beautiful pop up inserts on every page.  It's beautifully illustrated and is the sort of book you can spend hours looking over.

Silent Night and Other Christmas Carols

• Format Hardback | 18 pages
• Dimensions 240 x 298 x 19mm | 692g
• Publication date 01 Oct 2010
• Publisher The Five Mile Press Pty Ltd
• Publication City/Country Ferntree Gully, VIC, Australia
• Language English
• Illustrations note chiefly col. Illustrations
• Illustrated by Lee Krutop
• ISBN10 1741785847
• ISBN13 9781741785845

Christmas Carols contained:

• The First Noel
• O Come, All Ye Faithful
• Silent Night
• Deck the Halls
• Away in a Manger
• Good King Wenceslas
• O Christmas Tree
• Joy to the World!

I hope your family will be as blessed by this book as we have been

Love and Blessings
Chareen

Laser Light Show Melbourne Town Hall

Creating family memories is something that is becoming more and more important to me. Over the years we have immigrated twice and have had to say good bye too many times ... Growing up in a Military Family meant that we moved often and said good bye often too but in all honesty I don't remember it being a big deal because my parents always made the holiday's a super special time of the year.  A few years ago the town of Melbourne put on a laser show on the town hall which we attended.  It was wonderful.  These have now been shown a few years in a row and this year was a beautiful show.  We went to town with our home school friends and Paul did a live stream of the projections.  The best part was that my daughter in Sidmouth UK happened to be online and watched the projections live with us!  Such an amazing special moment. 


I blew the dust off my SLR and took a photo story of the lights this year.  I loved how they made a story of Christmas in Melbourne from shopping for the gifts, unwrapping and celebrating.  I couldn't make up my mind to which photo's to share so I will share them all.

Merry Christmas from the city of Melbourne.

The countdown begins ...

Melbourne gets dressed for Christmas

The shops are ready for Christmas and open for trade

People come to town to shop

Flinders Station welcomes people to Melbourne

What's Christmas without lollies?

Gingerbread Village arrives in Melbourne

Gingerbread Village is here

The Nutcracker looks on

Night Falls and all is still ...

Santa gets busy wrapping Christmas

All is quiet and the elves are out to play in Melbourne.

Christmas arrives in the Town Square

The Christmas Tree is up and Santa is here in the Square

Christmas in the Square

Christmas in the Square

Christmas is on the bridge and at the Art Center

Gifts appear beneath all the trees.

Santa and the Nutcracker celebrate

Celebrating the season

I'm looking forward to going into Melbourne to see Christmas next year and hope the laser show will be on again.  It's so beautiful to watch with lovely music.

Blessings
Chareen

Annual Hand Made Christmas Decorations {Virtual Fridge}

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A couple of years ago my Mom invited us over to do some Christmas art and we enjoyed it so much that we decided to make it an annual event.  This year she blessed us with making two things each! After seeing the hand print snowman ornament on Pinterest I had always wanted to make these but never got around to it.  Well my Mom surprised us with this as one of the crafts.  It was super easy to do too.  It was fun watching the children personalise their snowmen.

Next we made a ribbon and bead tree (Pinterest). These were a lot trickier to make but very satisfying once they were completed.

I also saw these great glass bauble ideas and my Mom surprised me with a bauble to make one.  This was a HUGE challenge.  It was rather interesting trying to get the decorations in through a tiny hole and then glued into place but it was very satisfying once it was accomplished.

Back of the bauble

Front of the glass bauble

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This weeks Feature

This week I would like to feature two posts:  The first is a How to Make Swirl Painted Christmas Baubles tutorial from over at Our Unschooling Journey Through Life.

The second one is a Last Minute Gifts You Can Make Today – Handprint Christmas Tree over at Adventures in Homeschooling.

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Chareen

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